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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 has been replaced by a sleek and sexy medic played by Deborah Farentino.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

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