X-Message-Number: 2385 Subject: CRYONICS: Sherlock Holmes Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 22:02:45 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <> > From: Ralph Merkle <> > > HOLLYWOOD (UPI) -- Sherlock Holmes undergoes yet another exhumation > when CBS broadcasts his latest exploits in the longest title in the > sleuth's career: ``Sherlock Holmes Returns! In the Adventure of the > Tiger's Revenge.'' > In this incarnation the greatest of all private eyes finds himself > deposited in contemporary San Francisco after spending 94 years > suspended in time cryogenically, frozen at his own request because he > was bored with Victorian life. > Scheduled for release during the 1993-94 season, the ``Tiger's > Revenge'' was written and directed by Kenneth Johnson and filmed on > locations in Vancouver, B.C., doubling for San Francisco. > The current baron of Baker Street is played by Anthony Higgins, a > highly polished Shakespearean veteran with just the right touch of > hauteur and clipped Brit accent. > But, horror of horrors, Holmes' sidekick, the estimable Dr. Watson, > has been replaced by a sleek and sexy medic played by Deborah Farentino. This strikes a memory in me. I recall a made-for-TV movie with a very similar sounding plot. Holmes is discovered to have been frozen after becoming infected with Bubonic Plague, which we can of course now cure. He is discovered and revived by a woman, who then becomes his Dr. Watson replacement. After getting his plague cure, he goes off on some trivial adventure. 1) Does anyone else remember this movie? I must have seen it years ago as I haven't had a TV set for at least four or five years. 2) Are there any new ideas in Hollywood at all? Perry Metzger Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2385