UK TV

Sherlock Holmes is all the rage these days. Of course, he’s always been popular but currently we have the Robert Downey Jr Sherlock Holmes franchise in cinemas; we have the modernised BBC Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman; and CBS in the US is planning a similarly modernised series of its own.

Taking their leads from Conan Doyle’s The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, various people have tried to imagine what Sherlock’s childhood would have been like, primarily with the intention of entertaining children. The most famous attempt is Steven Spielberg and Barry Levinson’s 1985 blockbuster Young Sherlock Holmes and The Pyramid of Fear, which imagines Homes meeting Watson (and Moriarty) at school.

There’s also been a recent series of books by former Doctor Who New Adventures writer Andy Lane called – appropriately enough – Young Sherlock Holmes.

But beating them all was Granada TV, which back in 1982 gave us the Sunday afternoon serial Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House. Here’s about the only set of clips that I can show you.

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