Forget Hollywood's myriad misrepresentations concerning the great detective. The genuine Sherlock Holmes is alive and well on DVD. Quick, the game is afoot! The book is much better than the movie" is a common expression that has proved all too true over the years. Yet, of all the injustices done to literature by the wide—and small—screen, none has suffered more than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective, Sherlock Holmes. From the misuse of his deerstalker cap to insisting that sidekick John Watson was a humbler to overplaying his cocaine addiction to ... well ... flat out just not getting it right on any level. Then there was the dawn. Great Britain's Granada Television and PBS's long-running "Mystery" series struck gold when Jeremy Brett was cast as Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson. (The real mystery is what took so long.) "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" recently have joined "The Return of Sherlock. Holmes" on DVD thanks to MPI Media Group, Orland Park, Ill. Each set features multiple tales of mystery, deduction, and suspense in which Brett perfectly personifies Holmes.
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