I watched the first episode of Season 2 of Elementary mainly because a close friend insisted that she thought I would adore it.  Fans of classic Dr. Who will want to note that Jon Pertwee's son Sean Pertwee has a very juicy role as an Inspector Lestrade on the skids.

Besides Jonny Lee Miller (whose Sherlock is so different from his Roger Collins, it really underscores JLM's chameleon-like powers as an actor), the only other element that made me think of one version of DS was Lucy Liu's performance as Dr. Watson, a retired surgeon who is now sort of a psychiatrist working with addicts.  The way the role is conceived made me think of the potential way that the Julia character could have been played in the aborted WB DS in 2004... as portrayed by Kelly Hu. 

G.

This video is about four years old and comes from the brilliant software console of Ms. Sara Monster...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4PHXRxDP4E

There's a sequel video, too... if there is interest, I will post the link.

G.

I do listen to DS music from time to time. I often enjoy it particularly around the current season of Autumn and Halloween.  I would find the insanity of "the Holidaze" in Nov.-Dec. easier to bear if we could have DS music selections playing over PA systems instead of those tacky "carols."  I realize this may seem odd to some.

From what I have read of some particular dates on the calendar of the "Holiday" season, particularly 12:01 a.m. on Black Friday when they open the doors at Walmart and polite people get trampled by the crazed mobs of soccer moms desperate to own the latest shiny electronic toy, some of the DS tracks, particularly the werewolf attack music, would make the perfect backdrop to the mayhem on hand...

G.

What luscious images of JLM!

Thanks, MB!!

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Hi Josette, it was originally an episode of the Gary Collins series (I'm probably the only person here who still remembers Gary Collins, lol), The Sixth Sense.  When Night Gallery went into syndication in the early 1970s, it was syndicated in a half hour format even though it was an hour show.  For some reason the decision was taken to combine 25 minute edits of Sixth Sense episodes even though those were full hour long stories, so the edits wound up being hack jobs.  If you saw the "Night Gallery" syndie version of "Through a Flame Darkly," there's no guarantee that all of John's scenes would even have survived the editing process--which is a risk in general with a lot of current repeats of old Sixties and Seventies shows, given that the current standard is about 43 minutes of programming per hour of air time.

The Sixth Sense was not nearly as successful as Night Gallery, and a lot of Night Gallery fans resent like hell the intrusion of Sixth Sense material into the packets of NG episodes.  I always enjoy the chance to see Sixth Sense--a lot, possibly all, of the episodes were up on Youtube last time I checked.

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Very cool.  Bil Baird's marionettes were all over the place in the Sixties and the Seventies but I don't ever recall seeing a photo of Bil or his wife before.

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Constance Ford made it brilliant.  I think she and Clarice were friends with one another btw.  Like Clarice, Constance Ford was a highly talented actress who became a regular on one of the Sixties soaps--I can't recall which one now. 

G.

A friend alerted me that this series is also available for free through hulu.  Or at least episode one was available.  I do not know if that means they will continue to carry it.

G.