"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" The Golden Pince-Nez (1994)

Director:

Peter Hammond

Writers:

Arthur Conan Doyle (short story "The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" from volume "The Return of Sherlock Holmes")
Gary Hopkins (screenplay)

TV Series:

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (1994)

Original Air Date:

21 March 1994 (Season 1, Episode 3)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Sherlock Holmes and his brother Mycroft investigate the murder of an amanuensis who clutches a pince-nez and whose last words were, "The professor--it was she." |

Plot Keywords:

Pince Nez | Murder | Eyesight | Cigarette Smoking | Suffragette

Cast

Jeremy Brett	...	Sherlock Holmes
Charles Gray	...	Mycroft Holmes
Rosalie Williams	...	Mrs Hudson
Frank Finlay	...	Professor Coran
Nigel Planer	...	Inspector Hopkins
Anna Carteret	...	Anna
Natalie Morse	...	Susan Tarlton
Patricia Kerrigan	...	Abigail Grosby
Christopher Guard	...	Willoughby Smith
Kathleen Byron	...	Mrs Marker
Roger Ringrose	...	Alexis
Daniel Finlay	...	Vladimir
Harry Kirkham	...	Mortimer

Trivia:

Sherlock's brother Mycroft (played by Charles Gray) took the place of Dr. Watson in this episode because Edward Hardwicke (Watson) was unavailable, as he was filming the motion picture Shadowlands (1993).

Goofs:

Continuity: When Anna is arrested at the beginning we see a closeup of her face and her glasses are undamaged. Then the police break down the door and in the next closeup of her the glasses are broken in front of her left eye and remains so for the rest of the scene. We later learn that the glasses were in fact broken in the turmoil during her husband's betrayal some time prior to her arrest.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Sherlock Holmes: No, this is a monastery's accounts dating to the fifteenth century.
Mycroft Holmes: Mm, precisely what I thought.
Sherlock Holmes: But surely this has great political significance.
Mycroft Holmes: A matter of particular delicacy.