The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

The Copper Beeches (1985)

David Burke: Dr. John Watson

Quotes 

• Dr. John Watson : What delightful little farms these are, don't you agree? Aren't they fresh and beautiful?

  Sherlock Holmes : Do you know, Watson, it is one of the curses of having a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject.

  Dr. John Watson : Well, it doesn't make the scenery any less admirable, does it?

  Sherlock Holmes : You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

  Dr. John Watson : Good heavens, who would associate crime with these dear old homesteads?

  Sherlock Holmes : They always fill me with a sudden horror. It is my belief Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

• [first lines] 

  Dr Watson : Something wrong?

  Sherlock Holmes : To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

• Dr. John Watson : We cannot theorize without data, I'm afraid.

• [last lines] 

  Dr Watson : [after reading Holmes his account of the case]  There, Holmes. Your verdict.

  Sherlock Holmes : An admirable account, Watson.

  Dr Watson : Oh, you don't think I've put "too much colour and life" into it?

  Sherlock Holmes : Oh, my dear friend, I humbly defer such considerations to your excellent literary judgement.

  Dr Watson : [after a pause]  Good.

• Dr Watson : I wonder what desperate circumstances could occasion such an appeal.

  Sherlock Holmes : I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would cover the facts as far as we know them.

  Dr Watson : Oh, and which one do you favour, Holmes?

  Sherlock Holmes : At the moment, I have no favourites. Data, data, data! I cannot make bricks without clay!