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I generally avoid mentioning vintage crime and mystery TV dramas that have suddenly become available online, because they have the tendency to disappear just as quickly. But I cannot resist pointing out here that all 39 half-hour episodes of the 1954 syndicated series Sherlock Holmes, starring Ronald Howard and Howard Marion Crawford, were uploaded to YouTube late last week by the New York-based streaming network FilmRise. As Wikipedia notes, this series “was the first American television adaptation of [Arthur Conan] Doyle’s stories, and the only such version until 2012’s Elementary.”

You can find the whole set here.

Most of this program’s installments were original Holmes and Watson adventures, though a number of its non-canonical tales are said to have been “loosely inspired” by Conan Doyle’s fiction.