Sherlock Holmes (1968) (The Surviving Episodes) Peter Cushing

[BarnDoor]

Surprising news yesterday that a Blu-ray set of the 5 (technically 6 if you correctly count Hound of the Baskervilles as two parts) surviving episodes of the 1968 Sherlock Holmes series starring Peter Cushing is in the works. Sherlock expert David Stuart Davies tweeted this:

Originally Posted by David Stuart Davies

Tomorrow I'm off to London to join friends and colleagues Barry Forshaw and Kim Newman to provide commentaries for a forthcoming Blu Ray release of the five existing episodes of the BBC Sherlock Holmes series from the sixties. A daunting prospect but exciting...

Presumably this is coming either from BBC themselves, BFI, or perhaps Network. I don't believe this series was shot on film, but perhaps survives on 16mm telerecordings?

Obviously it's a tremendous shame more of the series doesn't survive (much more of the earlier Douglas Wilmer series does). I believe clips of other episodes have been found, so perhaps they'll be included.