Silver Blaze
                                                                                        
Director: John Davies
Year: 1977
Rating: 5.5
A 30-minute TV production for Canadian TV in a series called Sunday Drama. It is based on the Arthur Conan Doyle story of the same name. One of Doyle's favorite Sherlock Holmes short stories. It has a nice cast as Holmes and Watson. Plummer is Holmes and in 1979 was to play Holmes again in Murder by Decree and coincidentally Nigel Bruce was a second cousin. As Watson it is Thorley Walters who had been Watson twice previously - in the 1962 Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace and in Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother. I like his Holmes; not at all the bumbler.



Silver Blaze is a top race horse and before the big race it is stolen and his trainer murdered. It has the famous line:

"Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.

Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.

Holmes: That was the curious incident.

Holmes wraps it up in half an hour and brings the killer to the finish line.