Previously in this blog, I have pitted the various dramatisations of the four Sherlock Holmes novels – ‘A Study in Scarlet’, ‘The Sign of Four’, ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ and ‘The Valley of Fear’ – against each other by medium. I then posted an update for 2021-2024 at the start of 2025, when I had experienced ten more such dramatisations, and this is my update for 2025 – with just two to add to the total.
Two further ‘STUDY’s. The first being the first episode of ‘The Fantastic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’, a Canadian audio drama series starring Anthony D.P. Mann as Sherlock Holmes and Terry Wade as Dr. Watson, reprising their roles from the 2011 film 'Sherlock Holmes and the Shadow Watchers’. This abridges the story into an 18 minute episode, leading to the case being solved almost as soon as it started.
The second was the first part of ‘Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B’, a comedic play which describes itself as ‘reimagining Holmes and Watson as a fiercely funny, gloriously dysfunctional female duo navigating post-pandemic London with sharp wits and banter’. This initially took a reasonably faithful retread of the story (albeit updated) with Enoch Drebber’s body being found in a hotel room rather than an empty house, but when it came to revealing the culprit, went off in an unexpected direction with the crime being committed by a different person, for a different reason, and in a different way.
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No further dramatisations.
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‘THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES’
Surprisingly, no further ‘HOUND’s this year.
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No further dramatisations.
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My favourites across each media remain the same as in my previous posts.
