Product Details

• Actors: Ronald Howard, Howard Marion-Crawford, Archie Duncan
• Directors: Steve Previn, Jack Gage
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Alpha Video
• DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009P1P0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,885 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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SHERLOCK HOLMES - TV CLASSICS VOL 2 - DVD Movie

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More episodes from the old TV series, May 29, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 - TV Classics (DVD)

This disk contains the following episodes from the 1954-1955 TV series:

Night Train Riddle
Mother Hubbard
Unlucky Gambler
Cunningham Heritage

Two of these episodes (Night Train Riddle and Cunningham Heritage) are also contained in the 20-episode, 5-DVD set just released by Madacy (ASIN B0001Z3TS4). If you're a fan of this TV series, you might want to consider getting that set instead of (or in addition to) this disk.

I personally like this TV series. Ronald Howard is more personable than most others who have played Sherlock Holmes - more human - but still quirky and particular. In this series, he seems to enjoy being smarter than the other characters, but he does it with more of a sense of humor, rather then being obnoxious about it. Like any TV series, some episodes are better than others, but I found them all enjoyable.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Still better than the Laserlight & Madacy releases, February 18, 2005

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Paul J. Mular (San Carlos, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 - TV Classics (DVD)

This second entry in the Alpha/Gotham DVD series of SHERLOCK HOLMES CLASSIC TV shows still has some episodes that look like they came from video tape, but they have much less compression artifacting than the Laserlight & Madacy DVDs.

#24 NIGHT TRAIN looks a little sharper on the Laserlight DVD, the artifacting on that release is distracting. The Madacy version has tearing & Artifacting. This Alpha/Gotham presentation looks a little softer (but not too soft), and has better compression DVD authoring. There is an annoying hair in the film projector for a minute or so in the first scene. Major DVD companies would have stopped the projector, cleaned it, and started over. In this case, someone blew it out as the film was running.

#10 MOTHER HUBBARD is currently not available elsewhere.

#37 UNLUCKY GAMBLER - I have not seen the Nostalgia Ventures edition of this, but Alpha/Gotham's copy is decent.

#01 CUNNINGHAM HERITAGE is also available from artifact ridden Madacy, these Alpha/Gotham copies look better. Cunningham Heritage should have been in the first set as it introduces Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes and was the first shown in the series.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent series but rip-off, June 26, 2011

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Mary Ingram (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 - TV Classics (DVD)

I loved the Ronald Howard Sherlock Holmes as much or

better than Basil Rathbone. When I purchased this one,

I didnt bother to notice it contained only 4 episodes.

Now, that is about 7-8$ for 4 episodes which is

ridiculous. There is one containing all the episodes

Howard did for about the same price. Makes no sense.