The Adventure of the Devil's Foot bewitches with its strange and frightening atmosphere. The costs of shooting Silver Blaze and The Devil's Foot emptied the boxes, making it impossible to produce the two episodes that were to close the season. Through economy and ingenuity, Michael Cox and his collaborators had managed to keep the series' budget in balance. The episode is an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's short story : The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (1910). 22) is the 1st episode of season 4 of the Granada series: Sherlock Holmes (The Return of Sherlock Holmes), starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Is slowly following Earth history from the Dawn of Time to the End of With Lance Parkin’s A History, his Doctor Who viewing marathon Worlds of Doctor Who, Disney and general geekiness. Nickerson is a good reader and that this is an interesting and unusual case helped to maintain my interest.Ī primary school teacher and father of two, Andrew finds respite in the However, I gave it a go and I’m glad I did. When I realised this was a single voice audio reading my heart sank and I almost decided to skip it.

His death, however, was at the hands of the sister’s lover in revenge for her murder. It is eventually discovered that the third brother, Mortimer, actually administered the drug himself before leaving his siblings. He conducts a very dangerous experiment exposing himself and Watson to the same drug. With vague suggestions of a supernatural force, Holmes eventually surmises that the siblings have all been poisoned by an airborne element. A third brother, who had been with them just before the mysterious events happened, returns to find them in this state and, a few days later, apparently succumbs to the same fate. This has all occurred in one room with nothing disturbed and no sign of an intruder. Visiting Cornwall, Holmes and Watson investigate a situation where a woman has died and her two brothers have been driven insane. The case under investigation is a good one. He makes a pretty good job of it although there wasn’t a huge distinction between his ‘Watson’ and his ‘Holmes’. The difference here, though, is that – as a single voice audio, Nickerson is also called upon to perform as Holmes and the other characters. It is read by James Nickerson.Īs Holmes stories are written in the first person from the point of view of Doctor Watson, this is who Nickerson is, essentially, playing – much like Richard Earl in the Big Finish adaptation of The Speckled Band.

One of the earlier cases, The Speckled Band, was in this style, but this is not a Big Finish play, rather one broadcast on Radio 4 Extra. We now have an unusual entry into the Sherlock Holmes audio marathon, with a straightforward reading, rather than a full cast audio drama.

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