Sherlock [2-disc dvd]
Publication details: BBC, 2010 Description: 2 dvd disc setLOC classification: Media Cabinet : SHEROnline resources: IMDB record Production credits: Directors: Paul McGuigan, Euros Lyn Writing credits : Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat Summary: Season 1, Episode 1: A Study in Pink Original Air Date—25 July 2010 Wounded in the Afghan war Dr. John Watson returns to contemporary London and answers an advert for a flatmate, which brings him to Mrs. Hudson's house at 221b, Baker Street, sharing with brilliant if eccentric private eye Sherlock Holmes. There have been three identical suicides and Inspector Lestrade asks for Sherlock's intervention over the fourth, the suspicious death of Jennifer Wilson. As she lay dying she wrote 'Rachel' in the dust and Sherlock deduces that this was not only the name of her stillborn daughter of many years earlier but the password to her mobile phone. Jennifer sent a text to her killer to give a clue as to their identity. This leads Sherlock to a meeting in a deserted college with a terminally ill serial killer, slaying people for kicks, to show superiority over the rest of society and determined to make Sherlock the next victim. Season 1, Episode 2: The Blind Banker Original Air Date—1 August 2010 Banker Eddie Van Coon and reporter Brian Lukis are both shot dead in identical slayings, in rooms locked from the inside. Chinese museum employee Soo Lin tells Sherlock Holmes that, as a teenaged orphan in China, she ran drugs for the Black Lotus crime syndicate, for whom the two dead men also worked. She too is then murdered, the killer being a human fly who can scale buildings. The gang mistake Watson for Holmes and capture him and his new girl-friend, requiring Holmes to come to the rescue. Season 1, Episode 3: The Great Game Original Air Date—8 August 2010 Mycroft wants his brother Sherlock to investigate the murder of civil servant Alan West and theft of the Bruce-Partington missile plans. Sherlock,however,prefers to assist Lestrade following a massive bomb blast. The sadistic bomber abducts a string of hostages,who will be released after Sherlock has solved a series of puzzles,including a twenty year old murder and two insurance scams,the second involving an alleged art theft. The gallery owner tells Sherlock she was approached by a criminal who claimed he could make money for her - his name being Moriarty. He is the arrogant bomber. Sherlock solves all the puzzles and the West murder before confronting Moriarty,a seemingly innocuous man he has met before,at a swimming pool.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Fischer Hall Library DVD | DVD: SHER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Issued | 2024-06-07 | V000593 |
Directors: Paul McGuigan, Euros Lyn Writing credits : Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat
Benedict Cumberbatch ... Sherlock Holmes Martin Freeman ... Dr. John Watson Una Stubbs ... Mrs. Hudson Loo Brealey ... Molly Hooper Rupert Graves ... DI Lestrade
Season 1, Episode 1: A Study in Pink Original Air Date—25 July 2010 Wounded in the Afghan war Dr. John Watson returns to contemporary London and answers an advert for a flatmate, which brings him to Mrs. Hudson's house at 221b, Baker Street, sharing with brilliant if eccentric private eye Sherlock Holmes. There have been three identical suicides and Inspector Lestrade asks for Sherlock's intervention over the fourth, the suspicious death of Jennifer Wilson. As she lay dying she wrote 'Rachel' in the dust and Sherlock deduces that this was not only the name of her stillborn daughter of many years earlier but the password to her mobile phone. Jennifer sent a text to her killer to give a clue as to their identity. This leads Sherlock to a meeting in a deserted college with a terminally ill serial killer, slaying people for kicks, to show superiority over the rest of society and determined to make Sherlock the next victim. Season 1, Episode 2: The Blind Banker Original Air Date—1 August 2010 Banker Eddie Van Coon and reporter Brian Lukis are both shot dead in identical slayings, in rooms locked from the inside. Chinese museum employee Soo Lin tells Sherlock Holmes that, as a teenaged orphan in China, she ran drugs for the Black Lotus crime syndicate, for whom the two dead men also worked. She too is then murdered, the killer being a human fly who can scale buildings. The gang mistake Watson for Holmes and capture him and his new girl-friend, requiring Holmes to come to the rescue. Season 1, Episode 3: The Great Game Original Air Date—8 August 2010 Mycroft wants his brother Sherlock to investigate the murder of civil servant Alan West and theft of the Bruce-Partington missile plans. Sherlock,however,prefers to assist Lestrade following a massive bomb blast. The sadistic bomber abducts a string of hostages,who will be released after Sherlock has solved a series of puzzles,including a twenty year old murder and two insurance scams,the second involving an alleged art theft. The gallery owner tells Sherlock she was approached by a criminal who claimed he could make money for her - his name being Moriarty. He is the arrogant bomber. Sherlock solves all the puzzles and the West murder before confronting Moriarty,a seemingly innocuous man he has met before,at a swimming pool.