The first episode of the Russian series also loosely adapted Black Peter.

I didn't know the pose went that far back, either.  I also never knew the harpoon thing was necessarily a canon reference, but then again I have only read a few of the original stories.

I made a little comparison of "chess playing" situations with Granada's Sherlock Holmes, BBC Sherlock and my Eine Kleine Baker Street short.
These are animated gifs, full version is at my blog.




 


  









 

Last edited by ZuzaRitt (February 27, 2016 1:53 pm)

Facing off against C.A.M. at 221B

From "The Master Blackmailer" (A feature length film from the Granada series with Brett) and "His Last Vow"









 

Last edited by BrettHolmes (February 27, 2016 7:42 pm)

Loving all of these… knew many of them, but so neat seeing the pictures together!  And holy wow… said that out loud at the similarity between the CAM illustration, and the Granada actor!      But…  aggh…  darn it, I was reminded of a wonderful one on someone's tumblr ages ago, that I can't find the link for again!  It was two columns of gifs, one BBC, one Brett's version.  BBC was the Great Game scene where John attempts to make deductions of the sneaker/trainer, with Sherlock quirking a smile, and the Brett version had them doing the same thing, with his Watson perplexed over a hat.  Google keeps giving me too many unrelated results, and not even sure if the tumblr description called it a sneaker or trainer or what, or what episode the other was from.     You can probably picture it, though!

Yes, that's the Brett clip, with the gifs having been from the first minute.  It was just sweet seeing them side by side… Holmes with that bemused smile, Sherlock with similar.  Watson frowning at the hat, John furrowing at the shoe.  You just get way too many unrelated results thanks to the keywords of sneaker, trainer, and their names.     Eh… maybe took it down.  And I know I remember similar from Elementary, but yeah, don't recall anything specific either!  Just Sherlock testing Joan in similar ways.

Aww, but the hat deduct-off!  Just like the story bit where Mycroft and Sherlock are people-watching at a window and try to best each other.  I don't know if they ever put that to screen for any older version?  And I curiously tried to see if there was a Paget illustration of such a scene, but didn't find.  I did find this, though…?


As it's from The Red-Headed League, I think that's the client and someone else, but I couldn't help but be reminded of the similar position of John and Sherlock at the table, with Sherlock reading the paper, and Mycroft standing off to the side.  I also saw this in the results… kinda cool Hound similarity:

Oh and here is the classic “stakeout” scene from the Brett version of “The Speckled Band” and the one in “The Abominable Bride” that is very reminiscent of it.






 

Last edited by BrettHolmes (February 29, 2016 8:16 pm)

Great observations, everyone!
That Specled Band scene really comes to mind when watching TAB´s Sherlock-John "dialogue in the dark".

Here´s another classic scene. Sherlock disguises as a clergyman and fakes being assaulted to infiltrate the lair of Irene Adler.













 

Love Spock at the end too!  Thanks for that!   There are definitely some similarities between Spock and Sherlock, and both are compelling characters.

Here is the epic confrontation between Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty at 221B. One is from the Sidney Paget drawing, the Brett version of The Final Problem and the other from "The Abominable Bride" that is also inspired by it. 







 

Last edited by BrettHolmes (March 1, 2016 5:43 pm)