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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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The 2025 BSI Trust Lecture

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2025/08/16

“a course of lectures” [COPP]From 1899 to the height of the Great Depression, a Connecticut Yankee in a deerstalker cap starred on both sides of the pond in a legendary play about a very British detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle.This BSI Trust Lecture by S.E. Dahlinger is about the enigmatic actor William Gillette, his career and his castle, and his role in reviving the Sherlock Holmes franchise. It happens on Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET.Registration information is below.About

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Episode 316: The Sherlock Holmes Pub

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2025/08/15

“Here is the key. You can look for yourself.” [GOLD]Imagine having the key to 221B Baker Street, and what it must feel like to open that door. And imagine being trusted to keep Holmes and Watson’s famous sitting room in good order. That rare honor belongs toRoger Johnson, BSI ("The Pall Mall Gazette") and Jean Upton, BSI ("Elsie Cubitt"), a well-known couple among the small community of married Sherlockians.Jean and Roger have preserved and maintained the sitting room at London’s Sherlock Holmes Pub

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Baker Street Elementary – The Wizarding World of...

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2025/08/03

“as if by magic” [REDC]One of the great effects of Sherlock Holmes's talents was his ability to surprise and amaze those around him.As Robert Ferguson's wife noted at the conclusion of "The Sussex Vampire":“When this gentleman, who seems to have powers of magic, wrote that he knew all, I was glad.”At times it was his ability to infer from clues or to seemingly read people's minds; at others it was his use of sleight of hand to accomplish his results.When he asked Miss Holder if the greengrocer had a

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Episode 315: The Sherlock Holmes LEGO Book Nook

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2025/07/30

“you could just fill that gap on that second shelf” [EMPT]If you discovered Sherlock Holmes when you were young, you might still recall the joy of your first reading. The world of Baker Street is fun, so much so that some adults still extend the Great Detective's career with their own stories.Many adults also enjoy LEGO as a nostalgic, relaxing, and creative outlet. That’s why we were eager to talk to LEGO Group Design Master Antica Bracanov and Graphic Designer Crisy Dyment about their creation of

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Baker Street Elementary – Watch Your Mouth

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2025/07/20

“wild, profane, and godless” [HOUN]For all of the realism that the Sherlock Holmes stories give us from late Victorian / early Edwardian England, we're mostly shielded from that which would make young ladies from that era collapse on the fainting couch.We are, of course, referring to profanity.We get a sense of foul language from time to time, but we're never given an exact quote. When Sir Hugo Baskerville, "a most wild, profane, and godless man" finds that the girl he kidnapped has made her escape,

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Baker Street Elementary – Until the Cows Come Home

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2025/07/06

“make England ring” [THOR]Here's an interesting thing to consider: how often are cows mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes stories?The easiest reference is most likely in "The Priory School," as we find Holmes and Watson tracing cow tracks across the moor as they search for the abducted Lord Saltire.“Strange, Watson, that we should see tracks all along our line, but never a cow on the whole moor; very strange, Watson, eh?”“Only that it is a remarkable cow which walks, canters, and gallops. By George,

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Baker Street Elementary – Impractical Jokes

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2025/06/22

“I can take a joke with the best” [HOUN]"Dad jokes" are typically punny or corny humor used mainly by fathers (although anyone can tell them). Responses range from mild laughter to eye rolls.That got us to thinking while there are plenty of fathers and father figures in the Sherlock Holmes stories, what is the state of dad jokes — or more broadly, jokes overall? We find a mixed bag.Jokes as an ExcuseLet's begin with father figures. Who can you think of that, when brought to justice, claimed they

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Worldwide Doyle 2025 Lectures in June and July

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2025/06/02

“His lectures were as brilliant as ever” [CREE]In June and July, the Portsmouth Library and Archives will be hosting a series of four online talks related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, following what began as theProfessor Neil McCaw Lecture Series(more on its origins in that link).The Library and Archives are the home toThe Conan Doyle Collection Lancelyn Green Bequest, an unrivaled collection ofbooks, photographs, objects, documents, and memorabilia chronicling the life of Conan Doyle and beyond,

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Baker Street Elementary – Increased Devotion

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2025/06/01

“an honored friend” [SIGN]Memorial Day just passed here in the United States. It's the day we honor those who have fallen in the line of duty to their country.The British of Sherlock Holmes's time were no strangers to war; in fact, John H. Watson, MD was a military man who undoubtedly saw his fair share of death when he was overseas.And the Canon mentions its share of wars — the Crimean War (GLOR, LADY), the Second Afghan War (SIGN), the U.S. Civil War (FIVE, CARD), the great war of Napoleon (SIXN),

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