Original revised final draft of the teleplay for the made-for-TV Holmes pastiche starring Roger Moore and Patrick Macnee.
Near fine.
Price: $400.00
"In the 1970s, [...] the image of Holmes was all over the place, which was perhaps a reflection of the decade's charming flakiness." (Groves)
This lighthearted 1976 Sherlock Holmes adventure, made for television and released on DVD only in 2014, featured a spectacularly impressive cast: not only Moore and Macnee as Holmes and Watson, but John Huston as Moriarty and Charlotte Rampling as Irene Adler. The film was generally well received and its camp virtues appreciated, though a number of critics held that Moore was simply too handsome for the leading role. This draft copy of Sapisley's teleplay is marked "FINAL" and notes two character name updates along with a number of revisions.
Read more: Peter Haining, The Television Sherlock Holmes; Derham Groves, Sherlock in the Seventies.
n.p: (Twentieth Century-Fox Television), January 15, 1976. Full title: Sherlock Holmes in New York: being an account of the penultimate struggle of wits and wills between Mister Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty in New York City during three days at the end of March and the beginning of April in the year 1901, as reconstructed from unfinished notes of Dr. John H. Watson by Alvin Sapinsley, produced by John Cutts. 11'' x 8.5''. Original brad-bound blue studio wrappers. 107 mimeographed leaves printed rectos only, plus a number of multi-colored revision pages inserted throughout. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of the noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Moderate edgewear, small spot to title page.
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