| | |  | GIFT SETS | Home » » Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Series | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | 39 Specially written, thirty-minute TV Sherlock Holmes' films made starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion as Watson. They were produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed and scored in France. Ronald Howard was the son of the actor Leslie Howard, with whom he appeared in Pimpernel Smith. Howard Marion-Crawford is one of those rare Holmes-Watson actors. This delightful collection of adventures infuses the wonderful Holmes mysteries with fresh energy and vigor that provides hours of thrilling entertainment. Each disk is prefaced with an introduction by Christopher Lee (Lord of the Rings) who re-invigorated the role of Holmes in later features. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Ronald Howard, Howard Marion | | Director:
| Various | | Format:
| Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 3 | | Studio:
| Mill Creek Entertainment | | Run Time:
| 1170 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| September 01, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 46 reviews |
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 Great find!Jun 21, 2010
I was unaware that there was ever a Sherlock Holmes TV series, but I took a chance on this DVD set just out of curiosity. I LOVE THIS SERIES! They did a great job with shortening many of the original short stories and adapting them to TV. The only negative is that the disks come in individual paper sheathes inside thee case, but I just replaces the original DVD case with an empty traditional multi-CD/DVD case and put them in that case. Now it is perfect!
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 Get the 5 Disc set, NOT the 3 Disc setMar 19, 2010
I give this three stars after considering all aspects of this release. Individually, it breaks down like this:
The series itself - 5 enthusiastic stars.
This is such a wonderful series. I must confess that Ronald Howard's take on Holmes is not the most accurate to the books, but he is certainly the most likable. He has a charm that is absent in virtually every other rendition of the great detective, Rathbone included. Again, it's this very charm that makes his Holmes less than accurate. But many will prefer this. Crawford is easily my favorite Watson. He does a spot on job in his portrayal. The series manages to include many of Doyle's original stories. The supporting cast is an interesting subject as many actors appear numerous times in different roles throughout the series. Lestrade is well cast and is played quite humorously as he is in the original short stories, and he takes the place of any other inspectors that were mentioned in the books. Production values show that there wasn't a lot of money to put into this American production that was filmed in France (I know, that's a weird one). However, the sets are convincing and never distracting. All in all, it remains my favorite incarnation of my favorite fictional character. I highly recommend it to any Holmes fan.
The 3 Disc Mill Creek DVD Release - 1 Star
Mill Creek previously released this in a 5 disc set. One must be forgiving of the overall quality of these episodes as they appear to be mastered from very poor taped TV masters. I don't know this to be the case, but it appears to be. But I do not give this release a 1 star rating based on the source material. My rating is based on the terrible decision made by Mill Creek Entertainment to re-release this in a highly compressed 3 disc set. This set has 13 episodes on each of the three discs (the previous 5 disc release only had 8 episodes per disc - an acceptable number for 25 minute episodes on a dual-layer disc). These episodes have very obvious digital macro-blocking (the image tends to look digitized throughout, like low quality internet flash videos), and the audio is equally compressed and sounds tinny. I've compared this release to the 5 disc earlier release, and none of these problems are present on the previous release.
Bottom Line:
Any Sherlock Holmes fan should have this series. However, you should avoid this three disc release and seek out the five disc release as it is clearly superior. Very likely, this series will never look very good, but you DO have options. Weigh them carefully. It's really an elementary decision.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Gave me a Headache!Jan 08, 2010
I am a great fan of Sherlock Holmes, and thus decided to take a gamble buying this series despite the negative reviews about the quality of the remastering. On hindsight, I should have taken the advice offered by all the reviewers who gave a one star rating based on the poor quality of the product.
The video quality is very bad indeed. You can see "shadows", as if you are having double vision. The picture was also shaky. Sound quality is bad. I had to replay certain scenes and listen intently to make out what the characters were saying. I did not see any evidence of "remastering", unless the original version had been trampled on by a herd of rampaging elephants.
The DVD gave me a headache, and I stopped trying to watch it after only 10 minutes. At the moment, I am not sure whether I should return this for a refund, or just write off the loss.
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Should be interesting for children and adults alike.Jan 03, 2010
In contrast with the Jeremy Brett series from the late 1980s, which is very loyal to Doyle's stories, this Ronald Howard series deviates from the stories.
However, this 1956-57 series is also really interesting once you remember that most of these stories are much like the Robin Hood series starring Greene (ex: approach, diction, etc.)
This Sherlock Holmes series appears to be marketed for children (or casual adult viewing). The vocabulary and grammatical expressions are pretty clear [Howard is a clear and precise Holmes, rather than one that utilizes the most extensive vocabulary possible].
Yet, the stories are interesting. There were a few that made me think. Others, well, I did not think the plot-line was very realistic, but then, I prefer films that are completely in touch with reality.
As for the quality of the programs, I thought they were comparable with the Alpha releases, although I only viewed the approximately 10 episodes that Alpha did not release in their six-disk set.
I purchased this set at Suncoast video, when a local store was going out of business. I write this because many of the programs I review are from videos I watch online, and therefore only discuss the content. The set I received contained 3 disks, and the cover appeared like the amazon cover, where Howard (as Holmes) is smoking a pipe.
[I have read from others that the 5 disk set is not of the same decent quality as the 3 disk set, which is similar in quality to the Alpha release.]
I also recommend the Richard Greene "Robin Hood" series, which is very similar to this Sherlock Holmes series (in content and presentation), and even contains some of the same actors.
PS: My younger brother, who is just under 10 years old, really enjoys both the Howard "Sherlock Holmes" series and the Greene "Robin Hood" series.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Holmes with a sense of humorDec 10, 2009
The program material technical quality is so-so because of the 50 year old prints of the original program source.
However this is more than compensated for by Holmes' very British sense of humor.
Most of the plots are new but there are a few from the original stories.
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