2020 Awards: 'Sherlock Holmes'

Films/TV

3) 'Scooby Doo & Guess Who: Elementary, My Dear Shaggy'   (Warner Bros) 

 

[Scooby and the gang link up with a man who claims to be the real Sherlock Holmes in modern-day England]

2) 'The Inbestigators'  (Netflix/Film Victoria)

[An Australian children's mockumentary comedy television series in which four fifth grade kids solve crimes around school or the neighbourhood, with the very Sherlockian Maudie doing much of the 'heavy lifting'].

1) 'Enola Holmes'  (Netflix/Warner Bros)

 

[A very enjoyable adaptation of the first of Nancy Springer's books about Holmes' younger sister. Although I didn't agree with the characterisation of either Holmes brother (click here for my review), I still recommend this]

Live Events   (Pre March 2020)

5) 'Peter Cushing: In His Own Words' (Cinema Museum, Kennington)

4) 'The Missing Company of Sherlock Holmes' (Greenwich Theatre)

3) 'The Sign of Four' (Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham)

2) 'Sherlock Holmes & The Warlock of Whitechapel' (Zinc Arts Centre, Ongar)

1) 'Sherlock: The Game Is Now' (W1 Shopping Centre. Shepherds Bush)

 

 

 Honourable Mention: 'Andrew Lycett: Conan Doyle's Wide World' - Stanfords, Covent Garden.

Online Events  (Post March 2020)

Plays

10) 'The Baker Street Ladies' (Slade Wolfe Enterprises - Zoom)

9) 'Conan Doyle's Edwardian Gothic (Don't Go Into The Cellar – Live Stream via Facebook Live)

8) 'The Extraordinary Escapades of Professor Challenger' (Don't Go Into The Cellar – Live Stream via Facebook Live)

7) 'Holmes for Christmas' (Don't Go Into The Cellar – Live Stream via Facebook Live)

6) 'The Mazarin Malediction' (Don't Go Into The Cellar – Live Stream via Facebook Live)

5) 'Strictly Sherlock' (Don't Go Into The Cellar – Live Stream via Facebook Live)

4) 'The Sign of Four' (Blackeyed Theatre Company – YouTube) [The production I enjoyed in 2018]

3) 'Re. Sherlock Holmes' (Don't Go Into The Cellar – Live Stream via Facebook Live)

2) 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (09 Lives Theatre Company – Download) [An audio version of the production I saw in 2019 in a Victorian graveyard at night]

1) 'Watson: The Final Problem' (Smokescreen Productions – Download) [A new Sherlockian play by Merrison 'showrunner' Bert Coules]

 

Talks

7) 'The Extraordinary Sherlock Holmes' (Nick Dobson, Barbican Library - Zoom)

6) 'Advising Government: Fiction and Fact in United Kingdom History ' (Dr. Andrew Blick, Sherlock Holmes Society of London – Zoom)

5) 'A Case of Identity: How Cinema Helped Create Sherlock Holmes' (Will Bird, Brent Culture Service - Zoom)

4) 'Left Coast Sherlockian Symposium' (LCSS - Zoom)

3) 'British Beginnings' (Nick Utechin, Red Circle of Washington DC – Zoom)

2) 'Three Minute Problems' (Sherlock Holmes Society of London – Zoom)

1) 'A Scintillation of Scions At Home' (Watson's Tin Box of Ellicott City, MD - Zoom)