Sherlock Holmes: Greatest Mysteries

The plots are typical Holmes, and I'll not touch the details as any who haven't seen them before I don't want to give the game away. That said...After dinging the series one star for overall quality of the original prints used there's not much more to rate it down on.The set is old, but its certainly still entertaining.Film quality is typical for productions of the period, as is acting and characterization, however I do enjoy older dectective or sleuthy type films.If this was not a subject that held my interest it probably wouldn't be on my "buy" list. As it is I'll watch it more than once.It's typcal of English sets of the period, but the gaslight London scenes and English countryside are worth watching these for if nothing else.The horses, buggys, costumes and sets are all very well done for the period, and it's the sets that make it relatively easy to fall into the storylines.If you're hypercritical and expect everything remastered or colorized to the 'nth degree, then you may want to give this a pass, but if you enjoy these period releases with the odd blemish adding to the character you might just enjoy it as much as myself. The biggest issue I had was not unexpected and that was audio quality on my set which varied a little during shows.

This is a mixed bag of short episodes and longer movies; they are all from the WWII era or earlier. The older short episodes, which featured Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes, are sometimes difficult to understand because they have a lot of crackling noises in the background, which I suspect could have been removed with newer technology. The newer movies, starring Basil Rathbone, are longer and easier to understand. In spite of the problems, if you are a Sherlock Holmes fan this collection is a gem. I stopped the DVDs and backed them up when necessary to clarify something that was said, but is was worth it for the enjoyment of this set. Sherlock Holmes:Greatest Mysteries not be the cup of tea for a casual viewer, but devotees may love it.

While this series does not match the quality of the Granada series starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes, it is still a very serviceable show. The plots, while deviating from the canon, are still generally good and the acting is decent. While I concur with other reviewers' comments on the quality of the public-domain prints, it is still the complete series of 39 episodes and for #3.99, the price is certainly reasonable.On disc #3, the episode entitled "The Neurotic Detective" abruptly ends at time interval 21:49 and then goes immediately to the end credits (just to be clear: this is not a DVD-playback issue; it is a an issue with the source material). Since most of the episodes run at about 25 minutes in terms of episode length (before the end credits roll), I am wondering if this particular episode is missing any footage?Darby

The feature movies as has been presented in the March 2010 Amazon review (above) are a nice sampling of the earlier movie portrayals of Sherlock Holmes. But for me the TV serial of Sherlock Holmes was a surprising favorite. Ronald Howard - no relation to U.S. Actor/director Ron Howard but rather the son of Leslie Howard - is a less creepy but believable Sherlock Holmes - and he and the cast clearly had a good time on the set. The quality of the TV series is surprising - and occasional on-location filming is fun and interesting to view (including the inserts from early silent film of London and Paris). Really a clever TV program that I am glad can be seen today. The quality is pretty good - not great - and not terrible.Well worth the low price of 5 DVDs...

At this bargain price, no Sherlock fan should hesitate to own this collection. The 39 TV shows star a very competent lead actor (Ronald Howard) who does no disjustice to the legendary detective. In addition, there are 8 full-length movies included, filmed between 1932 and 1946. In all, this is a great supplement to the more commonly-available Sherlockian canon.The lack of a 5th star results, unfortunately, for some trouble with the discs. Some of the episodes "stuck" on my player. Nevertheless, while annoying, this occasional technical problem still left me with many hours of enjoyable experiences.

Video quality is very poor and the sound is even worse on some of these. Have not watched all of them and may not but so far the films with Basil Rathbone are the best so I guess I got my money's worth. At least one of the disks was distributed by a company called Mill Creek and everytng I have ever seen from them is pretty bad. Bottom line, for the price even if you find a half dozen entertaining films you may want to take a look.

I have always liked the old movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Some of the earlier ones are not quite what I wanted. The series with Ronald Howard and H. Marion Crawford is fantastic. Overall I am happy with the package.

love sherlock holmes

On the plus side, with 39 half-hour episodes and 8 full-length films, you can't complain if its quantity you're after. Also, despite being 'region 1', NTSC, it works fine with my dvd player that's about 12 years old, in conjunction ]with even older CRT 32-inch colour t.v. ,via an ordinary scart lead. NTSC is not compatible with PAL so I fully expected it not to work.On the downside, by modern-day standards, the acting is rather stilted and the technical quality of each black and white episode, very poor. I'm still struggling my way through them and look forward to getting rid of it on eBay.

These are the Sherlock Holmes films that I remember from childhood, and it's wonderful to see them again. Quality is poor in places, but these are old films now, and it doesn't detract too much when watching them. I can recommend this collection.

Best sherlock holmes series by far , and at this price its a must buy ,+ extra films as well

great value for money and great service arrived within 10 days, hours of viewing quick fire half hour cases then the films what more do you want cheers

Poor quality picture, sound etc. Mind you some of these films are very old. My husband a Sherlock fan enjoyed having the collection and it was very reasonably priced