Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes

David Marcum

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2017 is the 130th anniversary of the publication of A Study in Scarlet, the first recorded adventure of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson. What an amazing journey it's been! In addition to the pitifully few sixty tales originally presented in The Canon, published between 1887 and 1927, there have been literally thousands of additional Holmes adventures in the form of books, short stories, radio and television episodes, movies, manuscripts, comics, and fan fiction. And yet, for those who are true friends and admirers of the Master Detective of Baker Street, where it is always 1895 (or a few decades on either side of that!) these stories are not enough. Give us more!In March 1998, legendary radio dramatist, producer, writer, director, and founder of Imagination Theatre listened to this request and broadcast the first of an astounding number of Holmes radio shows over their United States network of stations. In the intervening years, 128 original Holmes episodes (and one recently found "lost" episode") were broadcast before Imagination Theatre closed its doors in early 2017. Additionally, the cast and crew performed their version of the entire Holmes Canon between 2005 and 2016, featuring the same actors as Holmes and Watson, (John Patrick Lowrie and Larry Albert, respectively,) as well as having every script adapted by the same author, M.J. Elliott - something that has never been done before.Astonishingly, this great number of episodes were written by a relatively small group of dramatists. Imagination Theatre's departure from the airwaves left a great void, both in terms of those seeking "movies for your mind", but also those wanting new quality stories about the true Sherlock Holmes, set in the correct period, and featuring tales that truthfully represented Holmes and Watson.This book serves both to honor Jim French and his lifetime of achievements, and also Mr. Sherlock Holmes, along with the dramatists, cast, and crew who brought the new adventures to life. Inside this volume, you will find a script by every one of the authors who wrote about Holmes for Imagination Theatre, representing some of the finest new Holmesian storytelling to be found, and honoring the man described by Watson as "the best and wisest ... whom I have ever known."Featuring fourteen scripts from every writer who contributed to the series run of Imagination Theatre's Sherlock Holmes.

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• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781787052444
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Imagination Theatre’s Sherlock Holmes
A Collection of Scripts from The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Compiled for the Benefit of the Restoration of Undershaw
Edited by David Marcum
With Illustrations by Sidney Paget




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First edition published in 2017
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John Patrick Lowrie and Larry Albert as
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson



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All of the contributions in this collection are copyrighted by the authors listed below. Grateful acknowledgement is given to the authors and/or their agents for the kind permission to use their work within these volumes.
“Foreword” ©2017 by Larry Albert. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“Foreword” ©2017 by Dennis Bateman. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Aldgate Noose” ©2005, 2017 by Matthew Booth. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 61, May 22, 2005. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the author.
“The First Mate’s Jacket” ©2005, 2017 by J.R. Campbell. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 64, August 21, 2005. First text publication of this script original to this volume. Originally appeared as a prose story in Curious Incidents , ©2002. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Gastein Symphony” ©2007, 2017 by Teresa Collard and John Patrick Lowrie. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 78, July 29, 2007. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the co-author.
“The Blackmailer of Lancaster Gate” and “Foreword” ©2004, 2017 by M.J. Elliott. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 45, January 25, 2004. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Curse of the Third Sign” and “Writing for Sherlock Holmes” ©2007, 2017 by Jim French. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 80, November 26, 2007. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Disappearance of the Cutter Alicia ” ©2009, 2017 by John Hall. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 91, November 22, 2009. First text publication original to this volume. Originally appeared as a prose story in The Strand Magazine, No. 22, ©2007 Printed by permission of the author.
“The Hudson Problem” ©2006, 2017 by Jeremy B. Holstein. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 73, October 22, 2006. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of The Sleeping Cardinal ” ©2016 by Jeremy B. Holstein and John Patrick Lowrie. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 121, May 15, 2016. A substantially altered prose version of this story by Jeremy B. Holstein first appeared in The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories - Part II: 1890-1895 ©2015. Printed by permission of the co-authors.
“A Case of Unfinished Business” ©2014, 2017 by Steven Philip Jones. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 114, March 3, 2014. A text version of this script was originally printed in Sherlock Holmes On the Air! ©2014. Printed by permission of the author.
“Foreword” ©2017 by John Patrick Lowrie. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“Very Fortunate: Being a Part of the Sherlock Holmes Radio Legacy” ©2017 and “The Singular Affair at Sissinghurst Castle” ©2015, 2017 by David Marcum. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 115, November 23, 2015. Originally appeared as a prose story in The Papers of Sherlock Holmes Vol. I, ©2011, 2013. A text version of this script was originally printed in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine , Issue 20, (Vol. 6, No. 5, 2016). Printed by permission of the author.
“Foreword” ©2017 by Rick May. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Case of the Confounded Chronicler” ©2016, 2017 by Daniel McGachey. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 119, February 21, 2016. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the authors.
“The Beast of Hyndford” ©2015, 2017 by Iain McLaughlin, Claire Bartlett, and John Patrick Lowrie. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 117, February 15, 2015. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the co-authors.
“Foreword” ©2017 by David Natale. All Rights Reserved. First publication, original to this collection. Printed by permission of the author.
“John Patrick Lowrie and Lawrence Albert at Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson” Front Cover Illustration ©2017 by Stu Roach. Used by permission of the author.
“The Tollington Ghost” ©2007, 2017 by Roger Silverwood. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 76, April 1, 2007. First text publication original to this volume. A prose edition of the story also appears at: https://www.pennyshorts.com/stories/historical/the-tollington-ghost/ Printed by permission of the author.
“The Mystery at Mandrake’s Circus” ©2011, 2017 by Gareth Tilley. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 99, September 25, 2011. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the author.
“The Adventure of the Forgotten Throne” ©2004, 2017 by Gareth Tilley and Lawrence Albert. All Rights Reserved. Originally broadcast on Imagination Theater’s “The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” - Episode 47, March 28, 2004. First text publication original to this volume. Printed by permission of the co-authors.



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Editor’s Introduction: Very Fortunate by David Marcum
Being a Part of the Sherlock Holmes Radio Legacy
Sherlock Holmes may be the first multimedia hero. Not long after his printed adventures took the world by storm in the late nineteenth century, making him one of the most recognized figures in history, he successfully made the leap to plays, comics, and advertisements, and subsequently to film, radio, and television.
The image of a deerstalker, or a Holmesian silhouette with that aquiline nose, fore-and-aft cap, and pipe, is identifiable all over the world as the symbol for detective. Bill Blackbeard’s massive volume, Sherlock Holmes in America (1981), is filled with examples of how Holmes worked his way into the Cosmic Consciousness from the earliest of days.
In his extensively researched book Sherlock Holmes - Screen and Sound Guide (1994), Gordon Kelly simply states, “ There have been many detectives portrayed in radio programs, but the most enduring has been Sherlock Holmes .” It’s said that Holmes is the most represented character in film, and while I’m not certain, I’d be willing to bet that this is true of radio as well.
Holmes was first portrayed on radio on October 20 th , 1930, when - quite fittingly - William Gillette, the legendary stage actor who defined Holmes for a generation or more, starred in NBC’s version of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”. This was the beginning of an amazing body of work representing that most amazing of men, Sherlock Holmes, that has continued