Post by telegonus on Sept 17, 2018 19:11:06 GMT
The Fifties TV Sherlock Holmes series is an acquired taste that it took me a while to acquire, but in time I did. At first I resented what to me seemed like a B knockoff of what Rathbone and Bruce had been up to at Universal but on a shoestring budget.
When I gave it a serious chance it began to grow on me. It has a style all its own. Enjoyment of it nearly demands empathy, sympathy, some kind of feeling, fond feeling, for what Sheldon Reynolds & Company were trying to do.
That they seemed to use the same three or four actors in supporting roles gives it a repertory feel, and not an unpleasant one. Familiarity does not always breed contempt. In my case, with this show, more like fondness, genuine affection. It was never brilliant or surprising, and yet if one gives it a chance it can be rewarding in the things it does well.
I'd love to see it again on broadcast television but I doubt that shall ever happen again due to its being black and white. They used to air it semi-regularly on the local PBS station where I live, usually one of their UHF channels, around 11:00 PM to midnight. It made for a wonderful nightcap.
When I gave it a serious chance it began to grow on me. It has a style all its own. Enjoyment of it nearly demands empathy, sympathy, some kind of feeling, fond feeling, for what Sheldon Reynolds & Company were trying to do.
That they seemed to use the same three or four actors in supporting roles gives it a repertory feel, and not an unpleasant one. Familiarity does not always breed contempt. In my case, with this show, more like fondness, genuine affection. It was never brilliant or surprising, and yet if one gives it a chance it can be rewarding in the things it does well.
I'd love to see it again on broadcast television but I doubt that shall ever happen again due to its being black and white. They used to air it semi-regularly on the local PBS station where I live, usually one of their UHF channels, around 11:00 PM to midnight. It made for a wonderful nightcap.