"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" The Golden Pince-Nez (1994)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Peter Hammond

Writers:

Arthur Conan Doyle (writer)
Gary Hopkins (screenplay)

TV Series:

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (1994)

Original Air Date:

21 March 1994 (Season 1, Episode 3)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft investigate the murder of an amanuensis who clutches a pince-nez and whose last words were, "The professor--it was she." |

Plot Keywords:

Pince Nez | Murder | Eyesight | Cigarette Smoking | Suffragette

Cast

Jeremy Brett	...	Sherlock Holmes
Rosalie Williams	...	Mrs. Hudson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kathleen Byron	...	Mrs. Marker
Anna Carteret	...	Anna
Daniel Finlay	...	Vladimir
Frank Finlay	...	Professor Coram
Charles Gray	...	Mycroft Holmes
Christopher Guard	...	Willoughby Smith
Edward Hardwicke	...	Dr. John Watson
Patricia Kerrigan	...	Abigail Crosby
Harry Kirkham	...	Mortimer
Natalie Morse	...	Susan Tarlton
Nigel Planer	...	Inspector Hopkins
Roger Ringrose	...	Alexis

Trivia:

Owing to the illness of lead actor Jeremy Brett, "The Mazarin Stone" episode had Sherlock's brother Mycroft (played by Charles Gray) written in to take Sherlock's place. Mycroft also took the place of Dr. Watson in the episode "The Golden Pince-Nez" because Edward Hardwicke (Watson) was unavailable, as he was filming the motion picture Shadowlands (1993).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Anna is arrested at the beginning we see a closeup of her face and her glasses are undamaged. Then the police break down the door and in the next closeup of her the glasses are broken in front of her left eye and remains so for the rest of the scene. We later learn that the glasses were in fact broken in the turmoil during her husband's betrayal some time prior to her arrest.

Quotes:

Mycroft Holmes: [to Sherlock] Do you remeber what Papa used to tell us when we were young? Eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.