Watching Old Series
By Anna
@LadyDuck (471421)
Switzerland
October 21, 2015 10:02am CST
I like to watch "old style" crime and detective stories.
My friends know, so I received as gifts, several detective series on DVDs.
One of my favorite is Sherlock Holmes, the London based detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I have the TV series produced by British company ITV Granada, starring Geremy Brett.
In my opinion he is a good Sherlock Holmes, very close to the description given by Conan Doyle.
The episodes are numerous, enough to keep me busy for many evenings.
Now that the days are cold, there is nothing better than to watch an old detective story , curled up on the couch, drinking mulled wine.
Do you like old crime series?
Public Domain photo of Sherlock Holmes from Wikipedia.
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55 responses
@Tita417 (1228)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
21 Oct 15
@vandana7 Game of Shadows and Sherlock Holmes these are the 2 movies of sherlock holmes by Robert Downey Jr. the one who starred also in the Avengers. Robert Dowey Jr is also Iron Man. We love all his movies my kids and I . Great movies
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@marguicha (223097)
• Chile
21 Oct 15
I love those detective stories reruns. I think that my favorite is Inspector Morse but the ones I see are mostly the CSI reruns.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
21 Oct 15
That sounds interesting, now you have all the entertainment you need! Enjoy.
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@LadyDuck (471421)
• Switzerland
22 Oct 15
@AbbyGreenhill It is the most I can stay awake, one hour is too much and some evening, we stop the DVD and continue the day after, yesterday it was the case.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
21 Oct 15
@LadyDuck You're lucky you can stay awake 50 mins....I can't
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@LadyDuck (471421)
• Switzerland
25 Oct 15
I also have this series, but I prefer (a lot) Geremy Brett, simply because the stories represented are the real stories written by Conan Doyle, while the series of Rathborne is completely invented. Do you remember "The voice of the terror", set during the Nazi war, of course cannot be written by Conan Doyle.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
22 Oct 15
Yes, I do. I enjoy Agatha Christie books too, although hers are much shorter. I have a few Sherlock Holmes books, and they are quite thick. I don't think I've ever seen any movies, but I could be mistaken.
Did you know that it wasn't until those books came out that policemen began to keep the crime scenes clean, and do detective work to try to figure out the murderer? That's a large reason why Jack the Ripper wasn't ever found. The law back then wasn't taught the proper way to determine all the things we take for granted now.
I think that's pretty cool. It makes me wonder whether Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't inspired by a higher power in order to help the real life police in their work.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
22 Oct 15
@LadyDuck Not sure that the police identified Jack the Ripper as all the police archives are accessible today (at least the archives not destroyed by lack of space : it is often the case in France for justice and police archives). I was interested by the DNA analysis made last year, but at the end it looks that they were not good and that Jack the Ripper is not yet identified.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
21 Oct 15
I do and I often watch them on TV. But the old ones I only see when I can find them in the movie stores
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@rahulvsmokiee (3110)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
21 Oct 15
I dont like old crime serials, but i [prefer to make latest crimes with my own hands. LOL! dont you like it. I want to kill people.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Oct 15
Over recent years I have gradually started to watch more and more old television series as they are rerun. This was something that I would never do in the past but the lack of decent shows nowadays has made this a viable alternative.
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@connierebel (1557)
• United States
21 Oct 15
The only Sherlock Holmes series that I've watched is the series of movies starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. I won't watch anything else, because to me, Basil Rathbone IS Sherlock Holmes. He really embodied the character perfectly.
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@connierebel (1557)
• United States
28 Oct 15
@LadyDuck I guess we just have different tastes.
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@vickyrose (2235)
• Cooma, Australia
22 Oct 15
I like to read Sherlock Holmes books. I am not sure if I've watched those movie series, but I will look out for them since I enjoy British TV crime series
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