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Reviewer:manumoka - - January 22, 2009 Subject: Pretty well done It must be hard to write a precisely timed A. C. Doyle knock-off every week. These are fairly well done originals, and a few Doyle derivations. Because of the compact nature of the scripts and the radio format, these productions move quickly, if somewhat superficially. As a result, the subtlety of the original characters is lost, and must be supplanted by what we have already read.
Still, despite the annoying Clipper Craft ads, the cheesy organ music, and some strange accents, the characters and stories are close enough to the originals as to be quite enjoyable in their familiarity.
Reviewer:guppypartz - - December 25, 2008 Subject: Still worth it for the stories and the rest of the cast The stories are quite good, and the supporting cast seems especially good. But as with the second set of Stanley-Shirley, the constant bickering between Holmes and Watson is painful to hear.
Watson is played as thick as a brick. I wonder how many people involved in the production read the stories, or their only concept of Watson was the Nigel Bruce movies. Worse, this Watson second-guesses everything Holmes says and does. Which leaves us with the question: Why would Holmes, who is supremely intelligent and impatient with people, hook up with an idiot?
A natural erosion from Tom Conway's unpleasant acerbic version, Holmes is played as abrupt, conceited, sarcastic, and often speaks to Watson like he was a dog.
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