Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!mauney From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Tom Baker on stage as Holmes Message-ID: <2961@ncsu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 14:13:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ncsu.2961 Posted: Wed Oct 23 14:13:53 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:28:14 EDT References: <307@pedsgd.UUCP>, <172@ur-tut.UUCP> Organization: N.C. State University, Raleigh Lines: 18 > From: jdia@ur-tut.UUCP (jdia) > > Hoorah for T.B. as Holmes!!! > > Not surprisingly, T.B. makes a superb Sherlock Holmes. I beg to differ! Tom Baker walks through the part in Hound of the Baskervilles, declaiming his lines instead of speaking them. After seeing Jeremy Brett as Holmes, Baker's portrayal seems entirely wooden. Holmes is a strange man, but not that strange. Tom Baker could probably be good as Holmes, but in this case, he doesn't seem to have tried to get into the part. -- Jon Mauney, mcnc!ncsu!mauney North Carolina State University "If God had intended Man to fly, he would never have given us the railways."