The Mazarin Stone - Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) Part 1 of 5

[CocoOPNY]

Tell me what the "Ghost" is! Let me follow you to the highlands! Ah!

[CliffTheMeerkat]

So terribly brave of jeremy brett to struggle through this final series. But perhaps they should have called a halt long before it came to this?

[dauradet90]

How dare to speak at the Diogenes Club?!

[dauradet90]

OMG!

Are they talking?! In the Diogenes Club?! TALKING?!

[Kooshmeister3]

@dauradet90 I always assumed talking was allowed, just that most preferred not to, and would ignore most attempts to strike up a conversation. In any even this discussion seems important enough to warrant breaking that taboo... but by its very nature shouldn't be something they'd discuss openly in front of other members. Mycroft and Cantlemere should've retired to a private room for it.

[urmo345]

@Kooshmeister3 "Save in the Stranger's Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere."

[urmo345]

@dauradet90 i wondered it too...what a sacrilege!

[hangawara]

shadow oh Holmes on wall at 0.35 reminded me of basil rathbone.

[kandyspots]

Thank you so much! This is wonderful! All of them! :)

[GlassCtiy]

mycroft was said to be eight years olderthen ho,mes. holmes looks to be in about his forties. why does mycroft look like he's sixty-seven

[Lyrictheac]

So they combined "The Mazarin Stone" and "The Three Garridebs."

[irfand4]

Third eye !!  Holmes the seer and mystic !!

[Yankeez001]

i SHALL be watching... With my 3rd eye!" HAHAHAHA LOL to FUNNY!<3;):D

[catherinespark]

Oh P.S. it's great how everyone calls Mycroft by his first name in this.

[catherinespark]

Love the patriotic theme! It comes up whenever the prime minister and country are mentioned!

[silverbud]

Amazing, the man with the moustache is played by the dandy husband in the Miss Marple film "Murder at the gallop" from 1963. I wouldn't have recognized his face, but the voice: unaltered!

[Songsmirth]

So Holmes can't go anywhere without the permission of the Prime Minister? Interesting story line. And a war can start over a diamond? Huh? So they have a stone behind a piece of glass whose theft could start a war? No guards or anything? This should be interesting.

[mimi6619]

@Songsmirth I know it doesnt make sence, but dont blame Holmes!!! This episode is nothing like the book, I you really want to laugh you should read it.

[DunadanRanger95]

Jeremy Brett is amazing! Poor man, you can tell he is ill, but he is the best Holmes ever! RIP Mr. Brett you are missed, thank you!

[ibtnm25]

I would have thrown those arrogant women out on their ass.

[Frenchaccro]

Currently there is a petition to get Jeremy Brett awarded a posthumous Bafta. Look at "posthumous Bafta for Jeremy Brett" on facebook

[Imverycute2]

That music at 5:36 -- I'm thinking that could be Mycroft's theme. It sounds like the Sherlock Holmes theme only heavier and stuffier -- and that's Mycroft all around!

I miss Sherlock. Poor Jeremy, so ill that he couldn't work. But Mycroft is awesome!

[BarnabasFrid]

MMMMMMMMMMM I SO love James Villiers!

[c4xpert]

what was Jeremy Bretts last performance as Sherlock Holmes?

[dryadStone]

@c4xpert

The Second Stain, I think.

[c4xpert]

@dryadStone Thank you!

[digikate813]

@c4xpert The last episode of the show,"The Cardboard Box"

[samrock2010]

Jeremy brett suits best as Sherlock Holmes

[Raeyven76]

I love the dialogue between Horatio and Mycroft at the beginning, with the music playing over the top you really get the feel that Mycroft is ready to show everyone that he's every bit as good as his younger brother. I also love the scenes where Watson and Mycroft are working together, and Sherlock's message of congratulation for Mycroft at the end. Really well thought out episode given how it could have ended up without the main character.

[blaster2012]

ladies quote on the way out "he's not as intelligent as i thought he'd be" LOL!

[randomdave30]

The scene with James Villiers here has an interesting parallel with the 007 pic For Your Eyes Only. His scene is to facilitate the appearance of Mycroft Holmes taking over. James Villiers himself took over as the Chief of Staff when Bernard Lee was too ill to film For Your Eyes Only. Curiously, Kim Newman reconciles the characters of Mycroft Holmes and M in his Anno Dracula novels...

[IIIXBlackxCatXIII]

*pouts* i already miss brett...

[thesanantoniokid]

I miss already too, BlackCat, but Mycroft and Watson are magnificent and deserve their own episode.  And Emily and Agnes need their own spinoff series.

[randomdave30]

At 1.00 doesn't Jerermy Brett look ill? He is wearing about a foot of make-up too. Poor man.

[Chakotaysmack]

Jeremy!

[Chakotaysmack]

crazy old ladies, i love it!

[LordCrump666]

My favorite episode with Mycroft is "The Golden Pince-Nez". Is it just me, or does Charles Gray really add a wonderful dimension to that character? Gray injects Mycroft with a colorful personality.....in the books, as brilliant as he is, Mycroft comes across as rather dull (Doyle possibly wrote him as such to emphasize his indolence) but Gray gives him a certain spark that I love. Great stuff!

[wadyano]

but the dea of microft taking on a case is out f character. mycroft never left the diogenes club exceppt tp the turkish bath or hoe. doyle was very clear on that. if a problem could no be solved from his chair he'd reffer it to sherlock.

[TheKulu42]

True. But Conan Doyle showed us so little of Mycroft. I think it's clear in this instance that Mycroft took on the case because first, it was extremely important in an international sense; and second, he couldn't dump it on his brother.

I strongly suspect the Holmes is away to deal with his cocaine habit. Personally, I think Holmes took cocaine not for fun, but as an attempt at self-medication. His lack of appetite, mood swings, etc. suggest clinical depression.

[wadyano]

he was away cuz the actor was sickz. they didn't have 12 step rehab back then

[TheKulu42]

True, the producers had to improvise because Brett wasn't well, so the writers came up with a way to explain Holmes's absence. I think it's clear in the opening sequence that Holmes is taking a rest cure, most likely from his addiction.

As you well pointed out, there was no "12 step rehab" back then. Mental illnesses such as depression were likely seen as moral weakness, thus Holmes resorted to self-medication.

[randomdave30]

Charles Gray was Flippin' ACE!!!

[randomdave30]

Mycroft into action!

[Seymourir]

my sister and I are most particular about..my sister and I ...oh,,,i love that....

[KingofStarfox]

Aha, so this is that episode I've been hearing about--when Brett is so ill he can't act in this episode, and they make Mycroft the hero... he does look worse than in any other episode here. Even the last one he did, the cardboard box--he looks healthier than he does here! Such a shame. Brett was a genius. I wish he'd stayed healthy to do every single holmes tale.

[Chakotaysmack]

@KingofStarfox i agree

[DarqRemake]

omg I love Mycroft! he is great. ♥

[randomdave30]

@DarqRemake I think even Conan Doyle might have admitted somewhere that Mycroft was cleverer than Holmes, I mean Sherlock. Unfortunately, lovely Mycroft is too lazy to get up and do anything he prefers being a man of leisure the great lazy great bloke. Still, he springs into action when he is needed!

[Shangas]

Good grief, Jeremy's face looks terrible here. This was one of the very later episodes, wasn't it?

[yamifannetje]

I'm feeling so lost by the beginning: Sherlock will not be taking part in this episode? But what than will happen? Or will Sherlock make this episode on his own? What is goinig to his head to leave Bakerstreet to itself and just leave like that?

I can't help but thinking that it was a neccesary handling of Granada and this was the beginning of the way down of Jeremy Bretts health...??

[flormarplay]

poor watson

[skydancinghobbit]

Poor Breet he doesn't look well here..a wonderful actor the world is worse without him

[mistydreamz]

omg! 8:52 was WEIRD! 0_0

[VelvetVixen21]

Thanks for uploading this - my DVR malfunctioned when I was out of town and I missed all the repeats!!

[changingowl10]

Is it just me or does all of these types of cases usually have a catastrophic result if not found?

[AJSZodiac]

true it would be funny if one time they were like "if it isnt found within 24 hours we will be very annoyed and write you an angry letter"

[changingowl10]

But then again it wouldn't be very urgent. But still that motive was over used.

[evernetherall]

@AJSZodiac

That's really cute, AJSZodiac! You gave me a real chuckle here! I'm all fer puttin' a smile on...Thanks!

//^_^\\ yay!

[digikate813]

@changingowl10 Well yeah!

It wouldn't be any fun if there wasn't a disastourous circumstance.

[changingowl10]

@digikate813

It was still overused. :D