SPIELBERG to-punch-beating putative Conan Doyle prequel franchise in time-honoured Sunday Classics-aping ITV ‘family drama’ slot, with lanky youngster GUY HENRY doing the deerstalker-donning to harsh violin noodling and lots of shots of vintage cars pulling up on gravel, based on some Watson-discovers-wax-cylinder-of-Sherlock-talking-about-stolen-diamond-archive-adventure oddness gambit. So successful they turned to the proper books two years later.
Young Sherlock: The Mystery Of The Manor House
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September 21, 2015 at 9:33 pm
Guy Henry – he’s yer actual Dr-Walpurgis-soon-to-be-Dr-Terror, gargoyle-faced host of BBC2’s ‘Ghostwatch’ complementing (and as yet terrestrially unrivalled) ‘Vault of Horror’ marathon from Halloween 1992…