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Celebrating 40 Years of Young Sherlock Holmes

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2025/12/04

“an old friend and school companion” [TWIS]It is hard to believe that four decades have passed since we first saw a teenage Sherlock Holmes meet a bespectacled John Watson at Brompton Academy. Released on December 4, 1985, Young Sherlock Holmescelebrates its 40th anniversary today.Originally known as Sherlock Holmes: The Pyramid of Fear in some markets, it was clearly an attempt by the studio, Amblin Entertainment, to capture the zeitgeist of films like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and

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Holmes & Watson: A Perfect Pair

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2025/12/03

“pairs in the world” [HOUN]You never know where you're going to find Sherlock Holmes these days.In this case, we find Sherlock Holmes (accompanied by Watson, of course) in... a 30-second TV spot for chocolates.Chocolates?Yes, chocolates. In this case, for products from the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, which is currently promoting its chocolate and caramel squares.The ad opens with a hero shot of swirling caramel with a chocolate square surfacing through it and resolving to a wrapped square. The

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Episode 323: Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of...

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2025/11/30

“Particularly bright and joyous” [THOR]Forget about the silence you might think is suggested by the word “pantomime.” British panto is a raucous, musical, holiday tradition that expects the audience to be as loud as possible, booing the villain and cheering the hero. It’s usually a comic, theatrical retelling of a fairy tale — like Cinderella or Aladdin — with slapstick for the kids, cheeky innuendo for the adults, and a cast that includes a campy "Dame" (a man in an over-the-top dress).Now Holmes,

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Baker Street Elementary – Off to Violin-Land

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2025/11/23

“Holmes would talk about nothing but violins” [CARD]Does the quality of an instrument affect the ability of the player? Marketers of high-end instruments would certainly like us to believe so.In Sherlock Holmes's case, it is perhaps the difference between Watson tolerating his intermittent concerti and throwing the instrument through the window.When they first meet, the young Holmes tests Watson thusly:“Do you include violin-playing in your category of rows?”Fortunately, Watson passed with flying

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Tips for Making the Most of the BSI Weekend

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2025/11/19

“Let me have the straight tip and you won't be a loser”[SILV]With theBSI Weekendcoming up in January, we thought it might be helpful to provide a series of tips for the veteran attendees and the newbies alike.TheBaker Street Irregulars Weekendis happening January 7–11, 2026, and it's usually a pretty big deal if you're taking time out of your life to head into New York City for three or more days of activities with people you haven't seen in a year (or years!) or those you may have only known online

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Episode 322: The Scourers of Dancing Men

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2025/11/15

“‘Why, Holmes, it is a child’s drawing,’ I cried.” [DANC]Just when you thought everything about Sherlock Holmes and popular culture was known, a new mystery emerges from dusty U.S. newspaper archives.Join us as we interview the remarkable Ross E. Davies, BSI ("The Temple"), organizer of "The Scourers of the Dancing Men," a fascinating research project that dives deep into a 1903 advertising campaign for the publication of "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" in Collier’s magazine.They've discovered

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Baker Street Elementary – Through the Magic Door

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2025/11/09

“who seems to have the powers of magic” [SUSS]We don't hear much of magic in the Sherlock Holmes stories, other than Holmes being called a wizard four times and a magician once (can you name the stories?). While he did have a "human love for admiration and applause," [SIXN]Holmes kept his agency flat-footed upon the ground.His creator, of course, was another story. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, known worldwide for his perfect reasoning machine, was also fascinated by spiritualism and participated in many

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The Greyhound of the Baskervilles

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2025/10/29

“being dogged in London” [HOUN]I'm sure readers of this blog have read The Hound of the Baskervilles, in some version, or perhaps seen one of the media adaptations. If you'd like a way to see the story through fresh eyes, though, you may want to check outThe Greyhound of the Baskervilles.In this adaptation, by John Gaspard, Sherlock Holmes has a pet greyhound named Septimus. As the author puts it in his preface, describing what's different about this version, "it's a little shorter, it's a little

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Baker Street Elementary – A Whale of a Tale

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2025/10/26

“in command of a whaler” [BLAC]Captain Peter Carey ("Black Peter") met an end that was consistent with his way of life. Found pinned to his wall by a harpoon through his chest, he was finished off by... well, we'll avoid spoilers here.But there's an interesting bit of autobiographical information that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gives away in his description of Carey:He was a most daring and successful seal and whale fisher. In 1883 he commanded the steam sealer Sea Unicorn, of Dundee. He had then had

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Watson Returns

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2025/10/13

“You’re surprised to see me” [EMPT]The TV showWatsonreturns tonight on CBS for its second season.Below is a short trailer for "the world's greatest doctective" [sic] that teases the appearance of Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle). We had previously heardMatt Berry as the voice of Sherlock in Season 1, although that was a hallucination.In case you hadn't watched Season 1, which began airing its 13 episodes in January 2025... the show features Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut), having survived the

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Baker Street Elementary – Barking Up the Right Tree

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2025/10/12

“the very picture of canine indecision” [SIGN]Sherlock Holmes frequently relied on the use of dogs in his work. Which is perhaps an homage to the very family of animal that laid him up at university and changed the course of his life's work.He knew that dogs are shrewd creatures, and their natural abilities afforded him additional insight and information than he might otherwise gain. Consider the various uses of dogs in the Canon:Tracking tools:Toby (SIGN) helped track the creosote footmarks of

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Nominations Are Open for the 2026 Susan Rice...

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2025/10/08

“twinkling in front of us through the gloom to guide us” [SPEC]Photo courtesy of Will Walsh, BSIEvery profession, every hobby needs mentors. A mentor's job is to help new arrivals understand the context and meaning of the organization they're stepping into. Mentors helpfully point out the guardrails, endlessly encourage curiosity, and consistently communicate the worth and potential of those in their charge.Mentors are leaders.And we were blessed to have such a leader inSusan Rice, ASH, BSI,

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URGENT: Doctor Watson's Chocolate Bar

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2025/09/29

“I emerged with a little chocolate” [LION]Interested in trying a Doctor Watson chocolate bar? Act fast -- Open Book Chocolates, a maker of fair trade organic craft chocolate barswith literary-inspired flavors, is crowdfunding that new flavor, but only for the next couple of days!Why a Watson? Well, there is already a Sherlock Holmes chocolate bar... but as the creator explains,"there is currently a global cacao butter shortage.... This is a huge challenge, because cacao butter is an important

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Baker Street Elementary – The Case of the Adventures

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2025/09/28

“in such cases” [SIGN]There is a curious case of naming the stories that doesn't always strike the unobservant. Most of the Canonical Sherlock Holmes stories begin with the title "The Adventure of..."But to those who have been around a while, they notice the titles that did nothing in the night-time.The first six short stories ("A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-Headed League," "A Case of Identity," "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," "The Five Orange Pips," and "The Man with the Twisted Lip") do not

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The Escalator Is Down — And Sherlock Holmes Is on It!

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2025/09/26

“with which he would have ascended” [REDC]We really do hear of Sherlock everywhere these days.In his monologue on September 24, Steven Colbert was determined to get to the bottom of just who shut down the escalator at the United Nations as President Trump was about to go up.“Top minds are on the case,” Colbert said, before cutting away to press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who said the Secret Service was “trying to get to the bottom of it.”“And it’s not going to be easy to get to the bottom of it,

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Baker Street Elementary – I See Dead People

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2025/09/14

“I have no idea what he intends to go in for” [STUD]When we first meet Dr. John H. Watson, M.D., he's wallowing in his situation at the Criterion. After running into his old dresser, Stamford, the latter tells Watson of a peculiar student in the chemical laboratory. Watson naturally assumes,“A medical student, I suppose?”It's a natural question from a medical man. Stamford indicates that Holmes's bedside manner may have been less than ideal for such a profession:“Holmes is a little too scientific

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Jeremy Brett: Gone Three Decades

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2025/09/12

"the stage lost a fine actor" [SCAN]On September 12, 1995, Jeremy Brett passed away at the age of 61 (althoughcontemporary accounts gave his age as 59). It's hard to believe that one of the most influential impersonators of Sherlock Holmes has been gone 30 years.Many have hailed Brett as the definitive Sherlock Holmes, although it can be argued that each generation has its own definitive Holmes. In our estimation, the value of Brett's performance in the Granada series are due in part to three

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Baker Street Elementary – The Gift

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2025/08/31

“gifted with imagination” [SILV]We enjoy the frivolities and the seriousness of the literary society the Baker Street Irregulars thanks to Christopher Morley, who founded the group in 1934.Morley was widely known and admired in his day, a bookman, columnist, poet, novelist, and essayist, among other things.One of our favorites of his isPrefaces Without Books, a compilation of 30 prefaces he wrote. Spanning from Tom Sawyer to The Complete Sherlock Holmes to The Essays of Francis Bacon and Kidnapped,

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Episode 317: Sherlock Holmes and the Real Thing

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2025/08/30

“Pooh, pooh! Forgery.” [SCAN]Nicholas Meyer, BSI ("A Fine Morocco Case") is an accomplished storyteller who has made a mark in both the literary and film worlds. He's best known for his 1974 best-selling novel, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, which revitalized Sherlock Holmes for a new generation of readers. His other Holmes novels, including The West End Horror, The Canary Trainer,The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols, and The Return of the Pharaoh, and Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram From Hell

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Baker Street Elementary – It Never Gets Old

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2025/08/17

“silhouettes which our grandparents loved to frame” [EMPT]In "The Empty House," Sherlock Holmes surprises Watson with the life-like bust of himself, silhouetted against the blind. Watson describes the situation:“The shadow of a man who was seated in a chair within was thrown in hard, black outline upon the luminous screen of the window. There was no mistaking the poise of the head, the squareness of the shoulders, the sharpness of the features. The face was turned half-round, and the effect was that

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