![]() ![]() “Speedy’s Café” above which are Holmes and Watson’s rooms at 221B Baker Street (North Gower Street for anyone who wants to go looking) in the BBC’s modern Sherlock, has been transformed for the occasion into the more Victorian-appropriate “Speedwells Restaurant and Tea Rooms”.ġ0. In Sherlock’s His Last Vow, Tom Brooke played a character called Bill Wiggins, a grown-up composite of Billy the page and original Doyle street urchin, Wiggins.ĩ. ![]() Young Billy, played here by Adam Graves-Neal, is Sherlock Holmes’ page in select of the original Doyle stories and stage plays. Doyle’s Christmas-set fowl-themed story, The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle, referenced here as Watson’s latest Sherlock Holmes story was indeed published in The Strand magazine in 1892.ħ. (The same poster is later seen on the street where the bride performs her ‘suicide’, despite several years having passed in the narrative of the episode.)Ħ. Watson and Stamford drink in the Criterion Bar in A Study In Scarlet, the name partially obscured on the window behind them in The Abominable Bride. A poster advertising The London Fair can be seen behind Watson and Stamford. Just one is that lines from Doyle’s original story (“The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster”) are used here in Watson’s opening voiceover.ĥ. There are multiple repetitions between Holmes and Watson’s meeting in the original Doyle novel A Study In Scarlet, the first episode of Sherlock, “A Study In Pink”, and their meeting here (explained in The Abominable Bride by Sherlock reading John’s blog account of the introduction). Joining the regular cast’s Victorian counterparts is actor David Nellist as Mike Stamford, who appeared once previously as the mutual friend who first introduced John and Sherlock in A Study In Pink.Ĥ. Both A Study In Pinkand The Abominable Bride start with Watson waking up from a nightmare of his time in an Afghan war, centuries apart.ģ. ![]()
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