This is one of those late Jeremy Brett Sherlocks in which the actor's nostrils almost seem to emit smoke and fire!
Looking quite puffy and ill (he was near his actual death), he was demonstrably over the top in a role he should have abandoned years before, if only for his own health. And I say this as someone who thinks he was the greatest Sherlock ever! Yes, even greater than Basil R.
The story, loosely based on a much more modest Conan Doyle original (The Sussex Vampire) is also over the top with everyone chewing the (fine) scenery amid extreme histrionics and buckets of fake blood.
Roy Marsden, famous for playing P.D. James' detective Adam Dalgliesh, also emotes with his own "mad scenes" as the title character but Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson manages to keep his dignity unlike most of the others.
If you are a fan of the series, I recommend you see this (unnecessarily endless) episode only at your peril.
Looking quite puffy and ill (he was near his actual death), he was demonstrably over the top in a role he should have abandoned years before, if only for his own health. And I say this as someone who thinks he was the greatest Sherlock ever! Yes, even greater than Basil R.
The story, loosely based on a much more modest Conan Doyle original (The Sussex Vampire) is also over the top with everyone chewing the (fine) scenery amid extreme histrionics and buckets of fake blood.
Roy Marsden, famous for playing P.D. James' detective Adam Dalgliesh, also emotes with his own "mad scenes" as the title character but Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson manages to keep his dignity unlike most of the others.
If you are a fan of the series, I recommend you see this (unnecessarily endless) episode only at your peril.