The other detectives of late Victorian England, as seen on public television.
Crime abounded in late Victorian and Edwardian times-from the streets of London to the country houses of the nobility; from the royal apartments of Vienna to the hotel rooms of quiet Copenhagen. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective took on many of the era's crooks, killers, blackmailers, and schemers-but so did the fictional sleuths of other celebrated writers of the time.
Great British actors including Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius; Cadfael), Judy Geeson (To Sir, With Love), Jean Marsh (Upstairs, Downstairs), Robin Ellis (Poldark), and John Thaw (Inspector Morse) deliver riveting performances in this classic mystery series. Relying on brain over brawn, their characters outwit, outthink, and outmaneuver the most ruthless of adversaries-and all in ways Sherlock Holmes would have considered much more than elementary.
Acorn Media is preparing a 4-disc package of
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - Set 2, with 13 episodes running 659 minutes. This mid-'70s British mystery program is presented in full screen video, English mono sound and with English subtitles. It includes bonus profiles of the rival detectives, and their creators. Cost is $59.99 SRP in the USA, and CA$74.99 SRP in Canada. However, you can pre-order it at a discount using the Amazon button link below. Amazon's listing shows the preliminary street date of April 27th, but Acorn Media has actually moved the release date closer, to
March 30th, in order to tie it in with Warner's release of the Robert Downey Jr.
Sherlock Holmes film on the same date.
Here's the pre-order link to
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - Set 2 at Amazon, followed by package art that Acorn sent over to us:
