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Although never directly stated, Psych is said to have been based on, or at least a parody of, Sherlock Holmes, with Shawn Spencer being Sherlock Holmes, Burton "Gus" Guster being Dr. John Watson, Henry Spencer being Mycroft Holmes, Police Chief Karen Vick being Inspector Lestrade, and "Mr. Yang" being Moriarty.
In 1901 William Gillette brought Sherlock Holmes to the Lyceum Theatre in London where it proved to be a great success. The parody Sheerluck Jones, or Why D’Gillette Him Off opened on 29 October 1901 and ran at an hour long.
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes is an anthology of thirty-three Sherlock Holmes pastiches and parodies, [1] first published in 1944. [2]The first collection of Holmes pastiches, [3] it consists of stories written by many prominent authors including Agatha Christie, [3] Mark Twain, [3] O. Henry, [4] Anthony Boucher, James M. Barrie, [3] and Anthony Berkeley Cox.
Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities; Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell; Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows; Sherlock Holmes and The Three Winter Terrors; Sherlock Holmes in New York; Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century; Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street; Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils; Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
In 2015 Ian McKellen played a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes in the film Mr. Holmes. A parody of the Sherlock Holmes franchise, titled Holmes & Watson, was released in late 2018, featuring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly in the titular roles respectively. [30] There is a 2019 animated Hong Kong film Sherlock Holmes and the Great Escape. [31]
"How Watson Learned the Trick" is a Sherlock Holmes parody written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1924. [1] It concerns Doctor Watson attempting to demonstrate to Holmes how he has learned the latter's "superficial trick" of logical deduction by giving a summary of Holmes' current state of mind and plans for the day ahead, only for Holmes to then reveal that every single one of Watson's deductions ...
Solar Pons is a fictional detective created by August Derleth as a pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.. Robert Bloch wrote of the series, "During a span of a century there have been literally hundreds of Sherlockian imitations, ranging from parody to direct duplication, but no one except August Derleth ever succeeded in capturing the essential charm of Doyle's original concept...
Steele was a fan of Holmes, [18] and wrote four short Sherlock Holmes parodies that have been published in various periodicals and collections: "The Adventure of the Missing Hatrack" (1926), [20] "The Adventure of the Missing Artist" (1928), [21] "The Attempted Murder of Malcolm Duncan" (1932), [20] and "The Adventure of the Murdered Art Editor ...