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Christmas with Sherlock Holmes: @nunkie.bsky.social reads The Blue Carbuncle plus screening of the 3 restored Eille Norwood films, introduced by @drmjones.bsky.social. Bijou Theatre, Southport, 29 December 2026. Tickets on sale now: www.ticketsource.com/southport-bi... #nunkie

If these are the same three from the BFI’s “Silent Sherlock” programme, I’m especially curious about “The Final Problem”: Percy Standing’s Moriarty, with Cheddar Gorge doubling for Reichenbach. How does that final struggle play after restoration?

They are indeed. It’s a pretty lacklustre Reichenbach to be honest, but interesting that the whole series ends with Holmes disappearing to his depth.

Fitting, too, that the whole Norwood series ends with Holmes's disappearance. What lets the Reichenbach down: the struggle itself, or Cheddar Gorge never quite passing for Switzerland?