A tip of the hat for mentioning Tales of the Gold Monkey. I loved that show as a kid. When internet finally arrived at my university, the first things I looked up were Tales of the Gold Monkey and The Church.
Yes! That is absolutely what I did when the internet first arrived. While I didn't look up "Tales of the Gold Monkey" specifically, there were a bunch of other shows/movies/bands from my childhood that I did. (In the same vein, I watched "Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories" religiously in--1985? Remember that one? That's another show that seems to have been swallowed by history.) And re: the Church--that may have been THE first thing I looked up, finding, first, a Usenet discussion that led in short order to the Seance mailing list.
Those old Usenet groups were a gold mine. The internet went downhill in so many ways since then.
I'm currently immersed in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the 1984 series with the brilliant Jeremy Brett. Hadn't seen it since I was 12. I recorded a podcast episode about Holmes a few days ago and got pulled back in.
You're firing on all cylinders, Ryan. The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes was, in my view, one of the greatest things to ever happen on television. I've been so focused on American TV (excepting Doctor Who) that I hadn't realized it started in 1984, though I must have watched it on PBS not long after. I may have to write a "bonus" piece on this. It was a game-changer in my life for sure.
I must have watched in on PBS back then, too. We picked up the Watertown NY station from over the border.
I highly recommend revisiting it. Brett is utterly brilliant in the role. I read that he set out to be the best Sherlock Holmes the world had ever seen. He studied every gesture, how Holmes ate, how he picked something up from a table,... He had a thick binder of notes he'd made from the stories. And when everyone else was off at the canteen eating lunch between scenes, he would be in the corner reading from the original stories. It really shows.
My wife had no exposure to Sherlock Holmes, on account of growing up in Japan. She griped when I insisted on watching a couple episodes to refresh my memory for my podcast, claiming that they'd be "boring". She was totally hooked by the second episode.
A tip of the hat for mentioning Tales of the Gold Monkey. I loved that show as a kid. When internet finally arrived at my university, the first things I looked up were Tales of the Gold Monkey and The Church.
Yes! That is absolutely what I did when the internet first arrived. While I didn't look up "Tales of the Gold Monkey" specifically, there were a bunch of other shows/movies/bands from my childhood that I did. (In the same vein, I watched "Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories" religiously in--1985? Remember that one? That's another show that seems to have been swallowed by history.) And re: the Church--that may have been THE first thing I looked up, finding, first, a Usenet discussion that led in short order to the Seance mailing list.
Those old Usenet groups were a gold mine. The internet went downhill in so many ways since then.
I'm currently immersed in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the 1984 series with the brilliant Jeremy Brett. Hadn't seen it since I was 12. I recorded a podcast episode about Holmes a few days ago and got pulled back in.
You're firing on all cylinders, Ryan. The Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes was, in my view, one of the greatest things to ever happen on television. I've been so focused on American TV (excepting Doctor Who) that I hadn't realized it started in 1984, though I must have watched it on PBS not long after. I may have to write a "bonus" piece on this. It was a game-changer in my life for sure.
I must have watched in on PBS back then, too. We picked up the Watertown NY station from over the border.
I highly recommend revisiting it. Brett is utterly brilliant in the role. I read that he set out to be the best Sherlock Holmes the world had ever seen. He studied every gesture, how Holmes ate, how he picked something up from a table,... He had a thick binder of notes he'd made from the stories. And when everyone else was off at the canteen eating lunch between scenes, he would be in the corner reading from the original stories. It really shows.
My wife had no exposure to Sherlock Holmes, on account of growing up in Japan. She griped when I insisted on watching a couple episodes to refresh my memory for my podcast, claiming that they'd be "boring". She was totally hooked by the second episode.