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William Gillette was one of the first to play Holmes on radio, followed by Arthur Wontner. Since then, Holmes has been played by many actors in many countries on the "theatre in air"!

Basil Rathbone and Carleton Hobbs are some of the biggest names besides of course, Clive Merrison. Did you know that Edward Hardwicke's father even played Holmes in a radio episode of The Speckled Band?

There's John Gielgud and Tom Conway. There's a short series with Edward Petherbridge (one of my personal favourites), the list goes on 🥰

We have more a recent series with John Patrick Lowrie, and many others outside of anglophone radio, such as the Maritim Hoerspiel series with Christian Rode, a French series with several Holmeses, or this Russian HOUN adaptation.

I have some useful places for finding many Holmes radio series - including very niche ones! Youtube and the Internet Archive is also your friend.

And no, it’s not niche. It’s absolutely mainstream with millions of streams. You want a crossover with Oscar Wilde, Irene Adler as her own series, Moriarty Young or Sherlock Holmes canon ace, more Sci-Fi or American, as a dog, canon retold and Moriarty was always behind it all or Lestrade actually their best friend, in space, as old men, Dark Holmes, the better BBC SHERLOCK, meeting Poe, produced by queer people who are married and have a daughter… etc. whatever you wish to listen to, it’s done. All you have to do is go to you streaming device (Spotify, Apple, Amazon, whatever… some even exist on CD!) and listen to it.

However, Christian Rohde and Peter Groeger were the one who did all the ACD canon and the almost the same amount in original pastiche.

Sonderermittler, something like special investigator, and it features — I hope I remember everyone — Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, Edgar Allan Poe, Mycroft Holmes, Moriarty, Oscar Wilde… and they all have their own series plus uncountable crossover.

Oh! And we have Sherlock Holmes & Co — not to be confused with the podcast — which also has different teams, like Father Brown and Prof Van Dusen alongside Holmes and Watson (btw the voice actors of Robert Downey and Jude Law).

Well, and there’s always the explicit series with a canon bi Watson, the Sherlock Noir… really, like we have it all.

And if you really believe that Young Sherlock is new… been there, done that. Including a Young Sherlock Holmes confiding to a therapist about his sexual identity.

William Gillette was one of the first to play Holmes on radio, followed by Arthur Wontner. Since then, Holmes has been played by many actors in many countries on the "theatre in air"!

Basil Rathbone and Carleton Hobbs are some of the biggest names besides of course, Clive Merrison. Did you know that Edward Hardwicke's father even played Holmes in a radio episode of The Speckled Band?

There's John Gielgud and Tom Conway. There's a short series with Edward Petherbridge (one of my personal favourites), the list goes on 🥰

We have more a recent series with John Patrick Lowrie, and many others outside of anglophone radio, such as the Maritim Hoerspiel series with Christian Rode, a French series with several Holmeses, or this Russian HOUN adaptation.

I have some useful places for finding many Holmes radio series - including very niche ones! Youtube and the Internet Archive is also your friend.

And no, it’s not niche. It’s absolutely mainstream with millions of streams. You want a crossover with Oscar Wilde, Irene Adler as her own series, Moriarty Young or Sherlock Holmes canon ace, more Sci-Fi or American, as a dog, canon retold and Moriarty was always behind it all or Lestrade actually their best friend, in space, as old men, Dark Holmes, the better BBC SHERLOCK, meeting Poe, produced by queer people who are married and have a daughter… etc. whatever you wish to listen to, it’s done. All you have to do is go to you streaming device (Spotify, Apple, Amazon, whatever… some even exist on CD!) and listen to it.

However, Christian Rohde and Peter Groeger were the one who did all the ACD canon and the almost the same amount in original pastiche.

So WOW 🎉

For a country that’s releasing a dozen Sherlock Holmes audio books and plays weekly (no joking!) — what a day!

Let’s see or listen if they kept in Holmes’ attempts of losing his virginity. Hopefully they cut that out alongside the random racism (sry, it’s a parody and it’s “exotic” and “otherness”).

Sherlock Holmes kommt nicht alleine, sondern mit einem Doktor Watson.

Wieso? Ist er krank?

Nein.

Ach, dann ist Hypochonder?

Nein. Sie sind einfach unzertrennlich. Sie wohnen sogar zusammen in London.

Dann sind sie ein Paar?

Natürlich! Was denn sonst!

So WOW 🎉

For a country that’s releasing a dozen Sherlock Holmes audio books and plays weekly (no joking!) — what a day!

Let’s see or listen if they kept in Holmes’ attempts of losing his virginity. Hopefully they cut that out alongside the random racism (sry, it’s a parody and it’s “exotic” and “otherness”).

Sherlock Holmes kommt nicht alleine, sondern mit einem Doktor Watson.

Wieso? Ist er krank?

Nein.

Ach, dann ist Hypochonder?

Nein. Sie sind einfach unzertrennlich. Sie wohnen sogar zusammen in London.

Dann sind sie ein Paar?

Natürlich! Was denn sonst!

"Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. Snoopy will find it, and find it he must."

It’s so deliciously META sorry not sorry. Ich liebs einfach, wie diese Folge von einer Hörspiel-Serie von fast 50 Jahren ihr Medium SO abfeiert und eben mal richtig META mäßig in den Mittelpunkt stellt.

Das mit dem Radio und dem Verbrechen als Hörspiel in nem Hörspiel. Und das Opfer und gleichzeitig Täter ist Sprecher, Moderator und macht auch Hörbücher und Synchro. Und die Lösung ist eben im Audio-File. Die der Anführer Tim, der seit jeher vom selben Sprecher gesprochen wird, seit mehr als 45 Jahren, hört im KASETTENradio vom Vater.

Sorry. Aber ob das alles Sinn macht mit den Fall? Who cares. Love letter fürs Medium.

Und dann haut die Nachrichten auch noch Kritik an KI raus!!! Und europäische Werte. Und STABIL. Yes und das beim “Problemkind” TKKG.

Ja, Fall war Balabala. Was soll das für ein Motiv sein? Passte aber so gut in alte Krimis. Und dann machen die einen auf Miss Marple/ Sherlock Holmes am Ende und lassen alle antreten. Es war so altmodisch mit Spross und Haushälterinnen, die jeden gossip kennen, und Cocktailparty.

Ja, ein bisschen fehlt mir das TKKG Feeling. Dass es eine Jugend-Bande ist. So wie bei Folge 241. Aber mit den ganzen Geräuschen? Ein Fest! Und man konnte mitraten, Verzeihung, mithören.

In this case, the audience knows from the start, but it got me thinking that would be a really fun trick for an adaptation to play that the stories couldn't because they're tied to Watson's perspective: Holmes shows up and seems to be doing his thing as usual, maybe there's something a little weird about him, but that's just Holmes for you. And then halfway through, a second Holmes appears and after much ado, it turns out the first Holmes was actually the antagonist in disguise!

I’ve just watched a play in which Mrs Stapelton was the culprit — playing into the „the fairer sex“ and damsel in distress archetype… and it worked amazingly well, as it‘s a twist on canon and well, Victorian (and sometimes even today’s) time aren’t very modern and feminist.

And no, not gender-bent. It was Mrs Stapelton. Her being fed up with her husband, and the society (audience) underestimating her. That was a show stopping moment, I can tell you!

The version you saw with Mrs. Stapleton as the culprit sounds really cool. Especially since I feel like more modern adaptations often manage to be less feminist than the original stories because at least Doyle tried—I've read that he was a proponent of women having more rights to property and self-determination and that showed up in his writing.

There’re two more Sherlock Holmes plays by Ken Ludwig who aims to become the second William Gilette (the newest beeing Moriarty which remixes SCAN, FINA, partly, EMPT).

Personally (and critically): the only versions of Ludwig’s play work when we have a female Holmes and/or Watson. And for Moriarty, when Watson is in love with Holmes (and he being an ex-lover of the Napoleon of Crime). And no, all of those are staging decisions. Kudos to the directors!

Nowadays, it’s super mainstream to have a feminist approach; I cannot recall how many twist of female! Moriarty I’ve watched so far, and it can be her being female or the daughter (Sherlock Holmes: Schwarzes Blut/ Sherlock Holmes: Im Schatten des Empires) or — just last week — the mother who wants to revenge her son (Sherlock Holmes: Tod im Nebel). Sometimes it’s Irene Adler who turns out to be Moriarty (sometimes with a love story). Oh, and Irene Adler and her sister Alice as a nod to Gilette (Moriarty). The play I’ve mentioned of an evil Mrs Stepelton had a female Dr Mortimor too.

And it’s advertised as such, my personal favorite of last year, Ein Skandal, focussed on a modern Irene Adler (while I obviously enjoyed the original music the most, including the iconic line „I love him so, never leave him“ by Watson about Holmes). It’s a pastiche which is inspired by MILV and SCAN.

Apparently someone wanted to show off some effects because Holmes summons Watson via an electronic message system that only shows up in this one scene, and Watson gets down into the sitting room via a secret elevator instead of just taking the stairs. Not to mention that this Watson looks like the epitome of a 19th century German doctor.

Come to me, Watson.

Komme zu mir, Watson.

The formal one would be (and what nowadays is used in Sherlock Holmes pastiche as well as translations):

Kommen Sie zu mir, Watson.

Or, more likely:

Apparently someone wanted to show off some effects because Holmes summons Watson via an electronic message system that only shows up in this one scene, and Watson gets down into the sitting room via a secret elevator instead of just taking the stairs. Not to mention that this Watson looks like the epitome of a 19th century German doctor.

Come to me, Watson.

Apparently someone wanted to show off some effects because Holmes summons Watson via an electronic message system that only shows up in this one scene, and Watson gets down into the sitting room via a secret elevator instead of just taking the stairs. Not to mention that this Watson looks like the epitome of a 19th century German doctor.