"Sherlock. She is particularly kind to him and Watson for Holmes saves her when she is in a predicament in the first episode ""The First Adventure"" based on ""A Study in Scarlet"". In the episode 11 based on ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"", she finds a big snake in the school. Mrs Hudson is the detective in the novels ""Mrs Hudson and the Spirits' Curse"" (2002), ""Mrs Hudson and the Malabar Rose"" (2005) and ""Mrs Hudson and the Lazarus Testament"" (2015), by Martin Davies, and in ""The House at Baker Street"" (2016) and ""The Women of Baker Street"" (2017),"
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the eighth of the twelve stories collected in ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". It is one of four Sherlock Holmes stories that can be classified as a locked room mystery. The story was first published in ""Strand Magazine"" in February 1892, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. It was published under the different title ""The Spotted Band"" in ""New York World"" in August 1905. Doyle later revealed that he thought"
"The Speckled Band (1931 film) The Speckled Band is a 1931 British film directed by Jack Raymond and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's original story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" and the play he adapted from it, ""The Speckled Band"". The film features Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson investigating the fears of a young woman and the suspicious death of her sister. The film begins on the Rylott estate with gypsies camping on the grounds. Inside the mansion, Violet Stonor screams in her bedroom and then collapses in the hallway. She is discovered by her sister, Helen"
"""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" and makes explicit reference to ""The Adventure of the Devil's Foot"". Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes fakes his own death in Scotland in order to investigate a number of bizarre apparent suicides that he is convinced are part of an elaborate plot by ""a female Moriarty"". Returning to his assistant Watson in secret, Holmes notes that all the victims were wealthy gamblers, so disguised as ""Rajni Singh"", a distinguished Indian officer, he stalks London's gaming clubs. It is not long before he encounters the villain of the piece, Adrea Spedding. Holmes discovers that she seeks"
"that of Dr Roylott. Holmes and Watson arrange to spend the night in Helen's room. In darkness they wait; suddenly, a slight metallic noise and a dim light through the ventilator prompt Holmes to action. Quickly lighting a candle, he discovers on the bell cord the ""speckled band""—a venomous snake. He strikes the snake with a stick, driving it back through the ventilator. Agitated, it attacks Roylott, who had been waiting for it to return after killing Helen. Holmes identifies the snake as a ""swamp adder"" and reveals to Watson the motive: the late wife's will had provided an annual"
"In the 1930s, writer, actress, and producer Edith Meiser was largely responsible for first bringing Holmes to American radio listeners. Meiser, loved the Holmes stories, helped sell the show to the NBC radio network and found a sponsor. She wrote the show by herself for 12 years [1930–1942], both adapting Doyle's classic tales as well as writing new adventures in the Holmesian style. The first show she adapted was ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band."" It was broadcast on October 20, 1930, and featured William Gillette in the lead role. Various actors played the Holmes and Watson parts in the"
"script. Conan Doyle was ""charmed with the play, the acting, and the pecuniary result,"" and determined to cash in on its popularity. He wrote his own play in what he later referred to as ""record time,"" and so saved the situation. ""The Speckled Band"" was Arthur Conan Doyle's third stageplay and was the second Holmes dramatization. It was based with some modifications on the short story of the same name which, according to Adrian Conan Doyle, was his father's favorite Sherlock Holmes tale. Conan Doyle engaged H. A. Saintsbury, who had toured with the Gillette company, to portray Sherlock Holmes;"
"interesting personality in the villain. The terrible ending was also against it."" However, it was a considerable success and saved a difficult – almost a desperate – situation. Another criticism of the play is that the form of the Sherlock Holmes short stories is missing. Holmes appears late in the narrative, while the ending is missing Holmes' explanations of how he came to his deductions – considered de rigueur among Holmes aficionados. The production moved to New York. There was a London revival of this play in 1921. The Adventure of the Speckled Band ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"""
"of the Speckled Band"" has the shape of crocus, the flower Holmes mentions in the original. Besides Holmes's violin is on the shelf for personal belongings near his bed. Some words and conversation in the series seem to reference the series, ""Sherlock"". Most of the animals in the show are voiced by Kōichi Yamadera. Episodes 5 and 6 were to be broadcast on 20 and 22 August 2014 by GTV, but the schedule was revised because of the broadcast about the landslide in Hiroshima that occurred on 20 August. ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" is the sixth episode broadcast"
"short story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"". It premièred 8 years later, at the Adelphi Theatre, London on 4 June 1910, with H. A. Saintsbury as Sherlock Holmes and Lyn Harding as Dr. Grimesby Roylott. The play, originally entitled ""The Stonor Case"", differs from the story in several small details, such as the names of some of the characters. The Crown Diamond: An Evening With Mr Sherlock Holmes (1921) ""The Crown Diamond"" is an alternate version of the short story ""The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone"" though it predates its counterpart by some time, Sometime during the original run"
"names differ from the original short story; the story's Roylott becomes Rylott, Julia Stoner becomes Violent Stoner. Some characters appeared in the play and film that weren't in the original story such as Mrs. Staunton the housekeeper, Rodgers the butler, and the Indian servant Ali. The film also altered the famous address of 221B Baker Street to 107 Baker Street and makes it a state-of-the-art office complete with secretaries and stenographers. Vincent Starrett found Massey's performance lacking saying ""Mr. Massey as Sherlock Holmes, in ""The Speckled Band"", most famous perhaps of all the Holmes adventures, was a considerable disappointment."" Starrett"
"he believed were his twelve best Sherlock Holmes stories to ""The Strand Magazine"". Among those he listed were ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" (as his favourite), ""The Red-Headed League"" (second), ""A Scandal in Bohemia"" (fifth) and ""The Five Orange Pips"" (seventh). The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 because of its alleged ""occultism"", but the book gained popularity in a black market of similarly banned books, and the restriction was lifted in 1940. ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"" were well received upon their serialisation in ""The Strand Magazine"". Following the publication of ""A Scandal in Bohemia"""
"Holmes for five months in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's own stage play of ""The Speckled Band"". Charles Millward took over the role when the production moved to New York, but Saintsbury returned as Holmes in a West End revival of the play in 1921. Saintsbury played the role of Holmes again in a 1916 film, ""The Valley of Fear"", which is believed lost, opposite Booth Conway as Professor Moriarty. By the time the film was made, Saintsbury had played Holmes more than a thousand times on stage, and by 1921 he had taken this total to 1,400 performances. His interpretation"
"""A Study in Scarlet"", ""The Sign of Four"", ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", ""The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"", and ""The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"". It includes the very first mention of the phrase ""Elementary, my dear Watson"". While Conan Doyle wrote the original version, it is unclear how much of his material survived in the play as performed, which was written by Gillette. Conan Doyle and Gillette later revised the play together; it has since been revised by others twice. The Speckled Band (or The Stonor Case) (1902) Around 1902, Doyle wrote and produced a play based on his"
"released a double feature DVD including ""Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace"" and the 1931 film ""The Speckled Band"", starring Raymond Massey. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (German: Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes) is a 1962 black-and-white film directed by Terence Fisher. It was a West German-French-Italian international co-production. The film starred Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson. Curt Siodmak wrote the screenplay, based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film's plot has Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempting to recover a stolen"
"felt that Massey didn't at all look the part opining ""he looked like almost any nice, young, brown-haired college boy, wrapped in a dormitory dressing gown, smoking a bulldog pipe."" Mordaunt Hall of ""The New York Times"" disagreed saying ""Mr. Massey's performance is pleasing, intelligent and restrained"" and said of the film """"The Speckled Band"" succeeds in being moderately interesting."" The Speckled Band (1931 film) The Speckled Band is a 1931 British film directed by Jack Raymond and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's original story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" and the play he adapted from it, ""The"
"End actor Eille Norwood in the lead with Hubert Willis as Watson. John Barrymore played the role in a 1922 movie entitled ""Sherlock Holmes"", with Roland Young as Watson and William Powell in his first screen appearance. This Goldwyn film is the first Holmes movie made with high production values and a major star. Clive Brook played Sherlock Holmes three times: ""The Return of Sherlock Holmes"" (1929), as part of an anthology film, ""Paramount on Parade"" (1930), and ""Sherlock Holmes"" (1932). In 1931 Raymond Massey played Sherlock Holmes in his screen debut, ""The Speckled Band"", while Arthur Wontner played Holmes"
"and boredom"", this friend being an opium-addicted and increasingly weak Sherlock Holmes. Rupert Everett plays the Great Detective. 2002 also saw the made for television cable movie, ""Case of Evil"", about a 20-something Sherlock Holmes (James D'Arcy) and a Doctor Watson who worked as an early practitioner of autopsies, on the trail of Holmes' archenemy, Professor Moriarty (Vincent D'Onofrio). An adaptation of ""The Speckled Band"" aired on the early TV anthology series ""Your Show Time"", and starred Alan Napier as Holmes and Melville Cooper as Watson. John Cleese played Holmes in a 1973 episode of ""Comedy Playhouse"": ""Elementary My Dear"
"programs survive. During the 1940s, Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, famous for playing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in films, repeated their characterizations on radio on ""The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"", which featured both original stories and episodes directly adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. None of the episodes in which Rathbone and Bruce starred on the radio program were filmed with the two actors as Holmes and Watson, so radio became the only medium in which audiences were able to experience Rathbone and Bruce appearing in some of the more famous Holmes stories, such as ""The Speckled Band""."
"It originally starred Alastair Sim and George Cole. It was revived at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 2016. Sir Cedric Hardwicke played Pritchard in the 6 October 1952 episode of the radio series ""Suspense"". In 1956, Pritchard was played by Joseph Cotten in an episode of the television series ""On Trial"" (episode name: ""The Trial of Edward Pritchard""). In the Sherlock Holmes short story, ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"", while commenting on the apparent villain (Dr Grimesby Roylott), Holmes tells Dr Watson that when a doctor goes bad he is ""the first of criminals"". He then illustrates this with"
"(""A Case of Identity"", ""The Red-Headed League"", ""The Six Napoleons"") Holmes wields a riding crop, described in the latter story as his ""favourite weapon"". The detective is described (or demonstrated) as possessing above-average physical strength. In ""The Yellow Face"", Holmes's chronicler says, ""Few men were capable of greater muscular effort."" In ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"", Dr. Roylott demonstrates his strength by bending a fire poker in half. Watson describes Holmes as laughing, ""'if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own.' As he spoke he picked up"
"in Great Britain, but has Ryūnosuke travel with him as a stowaway. In the second chapter, The Adventure of the Unbreakable Speckled Band, Asōgi hides Ryūnosuke in his baggage and then in his room in order to bring him along to England for Asōgi's debut in the courts. However, while Ryūnosuke is asleep, Asōgi is found murdered within his cabin, and now exposed stowaway Ryūnosuke is once again blamed for the murder. Working with Susato and eccentric passenger Sherlock Holmes, Ryūnosuke discovers that the real killer is Nikomina Borschevitch, a world-famous Russian ballerina who fled Russia, and had unintentionally killed"
"(Angela Baddeley). Violet's dying words are ""the band, speckled."" She then dies and their stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Rylott (Lyn Harding), arrives. Soon there is an inquest into the mysterious death, and Rylott plots with the housekeeper and his Indian servant, Ali. Watson attends the inquest as an old friend of the Stonor family in India. He acts protectively to Helen and advises her to consult Holmes if she ever feels in danger. At Baker Street later, Watson summarises the inquest to Holmes, describing the various witnesses and evidence. Holmes files it away in his system—he operates a strangely modern office"
"two collections set in Napoleonic times featuring the French character Brigadier Gerard. Doyle's stage works include ""Waterloo"", the reminiscences of an English veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, the character of Gregory Brewster being written for Henry Irving; ""The House of Temperley"", the plot of which reflects his abiding interest in boxing; ""The Speckled Band"", after the short story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band""; and the 1893 collaboration with J.M. Barrie on the ""libretto"" of ""Jane Annie"". While living in Southsea, the seaside resort of Portsmouth, Doyle played football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur side,"
"Rylott screams. Holmes, Watson, and Helen enter his room and discover Rylott dead from a snake bite. Holmes forces Ali, the servant, to charm the snake so they can put it in the safe. Violet's last words about a ""speckled band"" were in fact describing ""a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India."" The venomous snake had been sent to Violet's room by Dr. Rylott to murder her for her inheritance. Rylott had intended to do the same to Helen. The movie ends with Holmes conducting an experiment in Baker Street. Watson arrives dressed for a wedding, and Holmes therefore"
"European naturalists. Skinks are lizards of the family Scincidae, many of which are snake-like in form. Such a hybrid reptile will have a venom incomparably strengthened by hybridization, assuring the almost instant demise of the victim. And it will also have ears like any lizard, so it could hear the whistle, and legs and claws allowing it to run up and down the bell cord with a swift ease. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself wrote a stage play based on ""The Speckled Band"". In December 1909, Conan Doyle had leased the Adelphi Theatre in the Strand for a production of"
"George Bernard Shaw's ""Misalliance"", as well as in Galworthy's ""Justice"" and in Pinero's ""Trelawny of The Wells"". He played Sherlock Holmes in ""The Speckled Band"", a portrayal much admired by Arthur Conan Doyle His cabman in Haddon Chambers' ""Passers By"" of 1911 was praised also. After playing Maximilian Cutts in productions of ""The New Sin"" at the Court and the Criterion in early 1912, he took his own production to America. It played firstly on 15 October 1912 at Wallack's Theatre, New York. On 26 October 1914, he appeared at the same house as Uriah Heep in an adaptation of"
"BBC television series ""Sherlock Holmes"", with Peter Cushing in the lead role and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson, which put more detail into the story, including the actor who claims the ring; the second episode of the 1979 Soviet TV adaptation, ""Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"" (the first episode combines the story of their meeting with ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band""; the second episode adapts the actual Jefferson Hope case.); a 1983 animated version produced by Burbank Films Australia, with Peter O'Toole voicing Holmes; ""A Study in Scarlet"" was the first episode of the BBC's complete Sherlock Holmes on"
"producers of the Broadway musical ""Baker Street"". In 1964, an adaptation of ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" was commissioned as a pilot for a twelve part series of Sherlock Holmes stories. Giles Cooper wrote the adaptation and Douglas Wilmer was cast as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson, with Felix Felton as Dr. Grimesby Roylott. The hour-long pilot was aired as an episode of ""Detective"" on 18 May and was popular enough to re-air on 25 September. Wilmer and Stock were secured for a twelve part black-and-white series to air the following year. Wilmer was a lifelong fan of"
"Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson () is a 1979 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novels about Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Igor Maslennikov it is the first of a 5-part TV film series (divided into 11-episodes) ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson"". The film is divided into two episodes – ""The Acquaintance"" (, based on ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"") and ""Bloody Inscription"" (, based on ""A Study in Scarlet""). The movies are made close to the plot of the books, but have some notable, and sometimes quite humorous differences, e.g."
"who had played the part of Scrooge on the radio every Christmas for years until Barrymore broke his hip in an accident. Owen was one of only five actors to play both Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr Watson (Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television films). Howard Marion-Crawford played Holmes in a radio adaptation of ""The Speckled Band"" and later played Watson to Ronald Howard’s Holmes in the"
"a free-spirited, outspoken girl. She is described to be a red-haired lass with violet eyes, tanned skin, and freckles. She is an excellent horseback rider. Mrs Eglantine Holmes Manor; she is sinister and does not welcome new guests. Mycroft Holmes told Sherlock in a letter, that she is ""no friend to the Holmes family"". The Baron is the mastermind behind the mystery of the Death Cloud, and because of serious injuries sustained by him at the Charge of the Light Brigade his locomotion is achieved in a unique way, akin to a puppet (his servants control strings attached to his"
"of the Cushing episodes, ""The 1968 Sherlock Holmes television series isn't really up to the level of the best film and TV adaptations, but it's still fun to see cult character actor Peter Cushing sink his teeth into the role again, and the adaptations themselves are respectable, just not distinctive."" In 1996 BBC Video released a single VHS cassette in the UK, containing ""The Speckled Band"" and ""The Illustrious Client"". In 2002, BBC Learning released ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" on DVD, for sale by direct mail order in the UK only. The episodes was re-released by BBC Video for"