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Summary: More "New" Adventures from the Post-Rathbone Era
Review: Radio Spirits previously published "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," a collection of radio plays from the time after Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone left the series. This collection consists of twenty more plays from that same era. The publication of these new stories was welcome news to this Holmes-aholic. Alfred Shirley and John Stanley don't quite have the same charisma as Bruce and Rathbone, but they turn in above average performances. To most Holmes fans, "The Woman" in Holmes' life was Irene Adler, the adventuress from "A Scandal in Bohemia." Edith Meiser, the author of these radio plays, was far more important to Holmes' legacy than Irene Adler. She wrote more Sherlock Holmes than Holmes' creator. She didn't write as well as Conan Doyle, or even as well as Anthony Boucher and David Green, but she turned in workmanlike efforts. Her rewrites of the original Holmes stories (seven of which are reproduced here) are excellent. When she writes her own stories, she can be very good. In the spirit of David Letterman, I give my Top Five radio portrayals of Holmes:
[1] The BBC productions starring Clive Merrison.
[2] The MBS productions starring Bruce and Rathbone.
[3] The post-Rathbone productions starring Shirley and Stanley.
[4] The post-Rathbone productions starring Nigel Bruce and Tom Conway.
[5] The BBC productions starring John Gielgud.
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Summary: More "New" Adventures from the Post-Rathbone Era
Review: Radio Spirits previously published "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," a collection of radio plays from the time after Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone left the series. This collection consists of twenty more plays from that same era. The publication of these new stories was welcome news to this Holmes-aholic. Alfred Shirley and John Stanley don't quite have the same charisma as Bruce and Rathbone, but they turn in above average performances. To most Holmes fans, "The Woman" in Holmes' life was Irene Adler, the adventuress from "A Scandal in Bohemia." Edith Meiser, the author of these radio plays, was far more important to Holmes' legacy than Irene Adler. She wrote more Sherlock Holmes than Holmes' creator. She didn't write as well as Conan Doyle, or even as well as Anthony Boucher and David Green, but she turned in workmanlike efforts. Her rewrites of the original Holmes stories (seven of which are reproduced here) are excellent. When she writes her own stories, she can be very good. In the spirit of David Letterman, I give my Top Five radio portrayals of Holmes:
[1] The BBC productions starring Clive Merrison.
[2] The MBS productions starring Bruce and Rathbone.
[3] The post-Rathbone productions starring Shirley and Stanley.
[4] The post-Rathbone productions starring Nigel Bruce and Tom Conway.
[5] The BBC productions starring John Gielgud.
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