The Abbey Grange
The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast
Gus Holwerda
4.8 • 573 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2021
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
The game is afoot! In this episode, Holmes and Watson sojourn to the Abbey Grange to investigate a grisly murder, we are introduced to enigmatic director Peter Hammond, and we receive a very special letter from someone responsible for many of our favorite moments in the series. Also, Gus and Luke discuss wax blood, an abundance of reflections, the beauty of red, and their shared love of this classically romantic episode of the show. Plus, listener telegrams!
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| 0:00.0 | The President |
| 0:02.0 | The President |
| 0:07.0 | The President |
| 0:08.0 | The President You best of it. You're best of... As our story begins, a carriage of the Kent Constabulary races through the night. Its destination, a lonely, distant manor house. |
| 1:02.0 | Upon their arrival, the police are shown to the sight of a grisly crime. Sir Eustace Brackenstall lies dead upon his hearthrug. |
| 1:14.8 | Blood and brains spattered across the room. |
| 1:19.3 | The case is one of murder. |
| 1:22.6 | And so begins the adventure of the Abbey Grange. |
| 1:34.5 | The... And so begins the adventure of the Abbey Grange. On Baker Street, Holmes rouses his friend Watson from slumber. |
| 1:42.6 | Come, Watson. |
| 1:45.0 | Come. The game is a foot. |
| 1:48.0 | Being the initial episode filmed for the return of Sherlock Holmes, |
| 2:07.0 | the Abbey Grange brought actor Edward Hardwick and producer June Wyndham Davies |
| 2:12.5 | into the series Fold for the first time. |
| 2:16.9 | Davies, having enjoyed the stories as a girl, was already |
| 2:20.8 | quite familiar with the great detective, even having gone so far as to have written a musical |
| 2:28.2 | of the Hound of the Baskervilles in her younger years. To Peter Haining, she admitted that she was a bit intimidated at the prospect of taking over the show. |
| 2:42.0 | She said, |
| 2:46.0 | It was a great challenge to be asked to take over the series when it was already established and enormously popular and give it added impetus. |
| 2:56.6 | But I am full of admiration for Jeremy Brett. He is such a caring actor and gives tremendous encouragement to all those around him. |
| 3:06.6 | Sherlock Holmes has never had a better interpreter, |
| 3:10.3 | in my opinion, and I think the pairing of Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwick is superb, |
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