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I have some happy memories of seeing The Grumbleweeds on stage in Blackpool.

Another 'must buy' for me ...! Love the cover, btw.

I found the 'new' bits with the audience a bit creepy, to be honest, but if it pleased his wife and daughter, fair enough.

The clips shown just underlined the lack of real personality any hologram/body double has.

Thanks for the nod. I knew this was coming but it had slipped my mind. I liked the book a lot, will be interesting to see if it comes to life on the screen.

Great news about the Durbridge too :)

The ROXY??!! Oh gosh I'd forgotten that. I was very aware of Les Dawson as a comic being a northern girl born in the early seventies. He's royalty up there. And he was still on TV in his sketch shows then, as well as Blankety Blank and Opportunity Knocks. There's no one to match that generation of c...

A bad idea. The tribute, fine, but a hologram?!

Yes, last night's Vicious was hilarious!

I haven't yet but since I blogged about Ian and started chatting to Gabriel I'm really looking forward to it. I'm so glad that finally, finally this wonderful actor is getting some focus other than 'wrecked old drunk'.

Brilliant news! Been waiting for ages to see this.

Is there a date in September set for this yet? Is it going to be a weekend or an evening, or more than one screening?

Richard Bignell wrote:Can you make sure we don't have a repeat of "Watch the Donut, Not the Hole" again!

I really can't have that going round my brain for another year... :D

You mean the one I had managed to wipe from my memory until you just mentioned it?

Fantastic news! Thanks Network :)

What a pity though that Charlotte isn't still around to enjoy this with us. Her early death was an awful loss.

He was absolutely chilling in 'The Innocents'. A fine little actor.

Definitely buying the Comedy Six, will think about the World of Comedy.

Oh lovely - would really like to see this again :)

Temptation strikes again ... Network, you will bankrupt me!

HURRAY!!!!! At last :)

Now that's a surprise - but a welcome one!

The first Python episode I ever saw, on a 1983 or 1984 repeat. The Gas Oven, the Hungarian Phrase Book, the Ministry of Silly Walks, and I think this is the episode where Graham as Minister of Arts is interviewed about his frock?

Brilliant stuff. I've been hooked ever since.

Whether it is Photoshopped or not, that's a new low in cover art! I saw the stage play and wondered if this film was any good; I have pre-ordered it anyway.

I've realised that I made another omission, possibly subconsciously, of Robert Downey Jr, who is another Holmes aberration, but in a bad way. He's saved in a way by Jude Law, his rather reasonable Watson, himself an alumnus of the Brett series.

Oh what a shame - a very good actor. RIP.

In The Flesh has been really good, surprisingly. I've never watched BBC3 before!

See, I knew I would forget someone! Tom Baker wasn't at all bad, but Terence Rigby was a bore as Watson. As for Michael Caine, he was great fun as the stooge who pretended to be the Great Detective, but I would have liked to see Ben Kingsley as Holmes rather than Watson in that version. As for wheth...

OK, purely because I'm bored and have just been counting up the Sherlock Holmes versions I have seen examples of, here's my thoughts: Jeremy Brett - Gold standard, naturally, even if he tailed off a bit in the later seasons. Benedict Cumberbatch - Twitchy, modern, manic. Preferred him in the first s...

I recently revisited Young Sherlock for the first time in thirty years. Light on plot, nevertheless Guy Henry gave a good performance as the teenage Holmes and there are some nice nods to how he would turn out as an adult. Certainly watchable.

Farewell then, Truly of the Yard. It's odd, isn't it, that some people represent a definitive memory of the past. When someone at work said Frank Thornton had died today a few people said 'who' but when you said he was Captain Peacock everyone had immediate recall. A long life but sad to see him go.

Re Arthur Wontner - yes, The Missing Rembrandt is presumed lost, but four films remain. Ian Fleming (not that one) was Watson in most of the films, with the exception of The Sign of Four, which has the younger Ian Hunter, making the duo a bit like a father-son team rather than contemporary colleague...

In the Brett series the Adventures and the Return are both superb series - later series have a gem here and there but Brett's failing health is obvious and the sparkle has largely gone. In terms of other TV Holmes, I enjoyed both the Wilmer and Cushing versions, and of course the modern reboot as Sh...