I was just watching an episode of Sherlock Holmes and enjoyed seeing Brother Mycroft taking a pinch. Looks like a nice box as well. If you care you watch the clip, it isn’t until about a minute and 20 seconds in, so bear with the Russian Revolution scenes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8Ds7BYhXc

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

Jeremy Brett is the best Sherlock Holmes EVER! I love this show.

I think my favorite snuff scene is the one from Sweeney Todd

Jeremy Brett is superb and brings to Sherlock something of the manic which the role really needs. Jeremy Brett suffered horribly from some sort of depressive illness for which he took large doses of medication. Conan Doyle’s Sherlock was a cocaine injecter, as is well known, and prone to depression. Brett’s incarnation of the hyper sensitive master mind makes some quite dull or trivial material absolutely fascinating. (I like the period pipes smoked too, though the (authentic) switch to cigarettes later is a bit sad. Bet they were lovely turkish fags though…)

i have been watching the new adventures of sherlock holmes ( or something like that on pbs ) and sherlock holmes dosent smoke a pipe he uses a nicotine patch . instead of a 2 pipe problem . he calls it a 2 patch problem . rubbish show btw

jpsks Ouch. I think I’d have be paid by the hour to watch that. Nice to think that Mycroft enjoyed snuff. Ages since I read the books. Don’t recall him being a snuffer, but it’s another nice touch.

^ Yes, I think they only aired 2 episodes of that show. The first was creative in it’s own way, if nothing more. The second was, as you said, rubbish. And they kept showing it over and over at various times. I agree that the Grenada TV/Jeremy Brett series is the best portrayel of Holmes.

@matero2 please don’t ever post another item like this. It is all your fault I haven’t gotten anything done today. I have been watching Sherlock Holmes for the past 5 hours. LOL just kidding about the request to not post anymore of these items. not kidding about not getting anything done or watching Sherlock Holmes for the past 5 hours… Thanks for the entertainment and it was free, best kind.

I remember when I first “discovered” Sherlock Holmes. I had heard of him of course, but never bothered to read one of the stories. Then one evening an Ethiopian trying to improve his English came over to my flat and had with him a volume of a few of Conan Doyle’s stories in simplified English. By the time he left I was all but ignoring him, I was so enthralled. I had my mother ship me the books from New York(I was somewhere in Asia) and from then on I was an avid Sherlockian. I have now been to 221b Baker Street, have quite a collection of Holmes related books and collectibles, including a deerstalker hat I went out in today for a stroll in the park. Even though Doyle considered the detective stories to be a “lesser form of fiction” and wished to be remembered by his more serious attempts at historic novels and the like, for the rest of us the character and his cases seem to have a life of their own, and there is nothing quite like Sherlock Holmes.

Gimpy: Glad you enjoyed them.

Anybody watch the Young Sherlock Holmes on Masterpiece Mystery. I loved it!

That’s what we were discussing above I think. They only aired 2 episodes, and those frequently. The first one I thought was creative in its modern adaptation, but the second I really didn’t care for.

Just reread your post, there are actually three episodes The third “the Great Game” was absolutely wonderful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock\\_(TV\\_series)

Ah. Missed that one. PBS just kept playing the first for a week at various times and then did the same with the second.

The Golden Pince Nez episode was shown on Sky the other evening, and the scenes with Mycroft snuffing were nice to see. (Played by Charles Gray, who was great as the sinister yet gentlemanly Satanist in the Hammer Horror film ‘The Devil Rides Out’ a couple of decades earlier… I love the old Hammer Horror films). Mycroft seems to like the ‘back of the hand’ technique! I like the later scene where a few of the characters are discussing tobacco, and Sherlock takes a cigarette he’s offered, and Mycroft politely declines, saying “I prefer this” (his snuffbox).

I wonder what he used; it would have to be a Fribourg’s surely? Princes, Old Paris, Etrenne - something of that ilk.

And the thought of SH using his politically correct MFing patches is enough to make you retch. I would rather stick pins in my eyes than watch that.

I agree that Jeremy Brett is my favorite Sherlock. What a great adaption of character. I rather liked the new modern Sherlock episodes as well. For me it wasn’t a matter of comparing it to the original but rather it stood out as a quality show compared with the plethora of horrid reality TV and a never ending stream of police crime scene nonsense.

“police crime scene nonsense” great way to put it. I haven’t watched t.v. in a while and then saw one these shows and nonsense describes it perfectly.

Charles Grey was also in a Couple Jamse Bond films He played Bowfeild (sp) in one which also starred Jimmie Dean as Mr white, and another he played a contact for jamse that got killed. Can’t remember the name of either film, lol. Also he was in Rockie Horror picture show. edm

Thanks for sharing!!!

About ten years ago I was talking to a gentleman in Liverpool UK.  He told me that his garage and the old cobbled street it is in  was used for filming a scene for Sherlock Holmes and Jeremy Brett used to sit in there between shots and chain smoke cigarettes.

In a documentary about the series, I think it was Hardwicke ( Dr Watson) being interviewed that said smoking was not allowed in the National Trust buildings that they were filming in.  Jeremy Brett didn’t go without his smokes though. He would suggest to the producer that a little cigarette smoke would  produce a better atmosphere to the shot and got away with lighting up for the benefit of the shot but more for himself.

Artful fox.

Peter Cushing was the best Holmes in my opinion  until Jeremy Brett took over the crown.

I’ve just done a search on my Kindle edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes and, if modern technology is to be trusted - which I seriously doubt - snuff appears in only 3 stories: The Adventure of the Red-Headed League, The Greek Interpreter, and The Adventure of a Case of Identity.

Oh, and yes - Mycroft was one of the culprits, “from a tortoise-shell box.”