Another day when I can't leave home. It wouldn't annoy me if I could get out to the store and run errands, but I can't. And I'm certainly not going to ask some driver on an app to go risk their life for me on the icy roads. At least I still have power and internet. So naturally with nothing to do, I obsess over Holmes again as a relief from the grim world. As I said on Bluesky, I found the old Russian Holmes series with English subtitles on a playlist. (I have the series already on DVD, but wanted to publicize the show for other people to discover.) Rewatching it is quite lovely, though I don't like their Hound of the Baskervilles, and it's a slog getting past their awful Sir Henry.
A youtube Johnlock compilation video featured a kiss from a 1986 genderbent Russian movie called My Dearly Beloved Detective, and I found it posted on Reddit. I used to think that "Johnlock" only applied to BBC Sherlock shippers, but now I see it being used in general for Holmes/Watson in every universe. I suppose that's okay, though the Johnlock conspiracy gave them a bad reputation.
Lately I also found the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which featured several Holmes episodes in 1977, starring Kevin McCarthy as Holmes, and I think it's Court Benson as Watson. I listened to the Speckled Band first, and found that Watson is somehow married in this despite the fact that Holmes woke him up that morning as if he was living in Baker Street. Watson later sends Helen Stoner to hide out with Mrs. Watson a while, and then Helen's fiance Peter Armitage wants to stop her from going back to Stoke Moran. The writers also expanded the plot by having Holmes talk to the Romany people encamped on Roylott's grounds (similar to the BBC Douglas Wilmer version). Very nice that they used the term Romany and had the guy say that Roylott is not their friend; they just do odd jobs for him. Holmes soon rules them out as suspects. I wonder if they made any interesting changes to other stories. I want to listen to everything and watch everything on Youtube too.
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