* Sherlock Hemlock, the name of a Muppet detective

* Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street – teaching Occam's razor to young children, Sherlock Hemlock comes up with a complex solution to a simple problem.

He has regularly appeared in skits with Cookie Monster, Sherlock Hemlock and Lefty the Salesman.

Sherlock Hemlock ( who calls himself " the world's greatest detective ") is a former Muppet character on the children's TV show Sesame Street.

Sherlock Hemlock was performed by Jerry Nelson.

While Sherlock Hemlock made frequent appearances on the show in the 1970s and ' 80s, in recent years he has been phased out in favor of newer characters.

Sherlock Hemlock is an obvious parody of Sherlock Holmes and the stereotypical detective.

Sherlock Hemlock is known for his humorous skits in which he tries to solve a mystery, only to discover that he is the culprit.

In this skit, Ernie opens his lunch box to find that half of his sandwich is missing, so he asks Sherlock Hemlock to help him figure out who took the missing half.

The following Sesame Street books feature Sherlock Hemlock as the main character:

* Sherlock Hemlock and the Great Twiddlebug Mystery: or The Mystery of the Terrible Mess in My Friend's Front Yard ( by Betty Lou as Told to Sir Arthur Conan Rubberducque ) ( Western Publishing, 1972 ) written by Revena Dwight and illustrated by Jolly Roger Bradfield ( A Whitman Tell-a-Tale Book by the same duo that did The Together Book )

* Sherlock Hemlock and the Creatures from Outer Space ( Western Publishing, 1981 ) written by Ray Sipherd and illustrated by Sammis McLean.

Hemlock, Sherlock

Hemlock, Sherlock

Hemlock, Sherlock

— The contestants, ( Cookie Monster, Don Music and Sherlock Hemlock ), must guess who the Mystery Guest is.

He received a number of his major characters early in the show's run, including the Sherlock Holmes parody Sherlock Hemlock ( 1970 – 1995, 2010 ), a hapless magician named The Amazing Mumford ( 1971 – 2012 ), and the overly strong, but sensitive Herry Monster ( 1970 – 2012 ).

** Sherlock Hemlock, a muppet from the TV show Sesame Street

# X Marks the Spot, with Sherlock Hemlock

He also starred in Without a Clue, portraying Sherlock Holmes and also acted as Chief Insp.

After My Fair Lady, Holloway was able to get film roles in Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter ( 1968 ), which starred the 1960s British pop group Herman's Hermits, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Flight of the Doves and Up the Front, all in the early 1970s.

Also, Basil Rathbone starred as Sherlock Holmes in a series of movies throughout the late 1930s and 1940s.

He starred in the title role in The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes in 1999, and has also given his voice to the roles of Max Quordlepleen in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and James Phillimore in The Singular Inheritance of Miss Gloria Wilson, an original Sherlock Holmes radio play in the series The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( 2002 ).

* The BBC broadcast two Sherlock Holmes series in 1965 and 1968 which starred Douglas Wilmer ( 1965 ) and Peter Cushing ( 1968 ) as Sherlock and Nigel Stock as Watson.

* In the Billy Wilder-directed film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ( 1970 ), which starred Robert Stephens as Sherlock, Mycroft was played by Christopher Lee ( who also played Sherlock Holmes in other productions before and since ).

* Peter Jeffrey played Mycroft in the 1990 film Hands of a Murderer which starred Edward Woodward as Sherlock, John Hillerman as Watson and Anthony Andrews as Professor Moriarty.

* Jerome Willis played Mycroft in Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady, a 1992 made-for-TV film which starred Christopher Lee as Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Watson.

Originally, the show starred Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson.

Blake even made it onto records: a seven minute 78 rpm record called " Murder on the Portsmouth Road " was written by Donald Stuart and starred Arthur Wontner ( who also starred as Sherlock Holmes in early British talkies ) as Blake.

A series of four TV movies produced in the early 2000s starred Matt Frewer as Sherlock Holmes and Kenneth Welsh as Dr. Watson.

A series of four TV movies produced in the early 2000s starred Matt Frewer as Sherlock Holmes and Kenneth Welsh as Dr. Watson.

Bruce starred as Watson in all 14 films of the series and over 200 radio programs of The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

In 2011, she starred in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Midnight in Paris and made a cameo appearance in the action-adventure sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

David Burke ( born 1934 ) is an English actor, known for playing Watson in the initial series of Granada Television's 1980s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which starred Jeremy Brett in the title role.

It also starred Nigel Bruce, Rathbone's old Sherlock Holmes film partner, in their only non-Holmes / Watson screen appearance together.

It starred Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes and Colin Blakely as Dr. Watson.

Morris has starred in over fifty films, including Woody Allen's Love and Death ( 1975 ), Ken Russell's Lisztomania ( 1975 ), and Gene Wilder's The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes ' Smarter Brother ( 1977 ).

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

In 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the most famous of all fictional detectives.

In effect, the world of all things divides, on this view, into those ( like Socrates, the planet Venus, and New York City ) that have existence in the narrow sense, and those ( like Sherlock Holmes, the goddess Venus, and Minas Tirith ) that do not.

This uses a national IT system developed for major crime enquiries by all UK forces, called Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, more commonly referred to by its acronym, HOLMES ( which recognises the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes ).

In 1991, Sherlock, Jr. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ," and on June 14, 2000 the American Film Institute, as part of its AFI 100 Years ... series, ranked the film as # 62 in the list of the funniest films of all time ( AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs ).

So, for instance, many books may be set in conflicting fictional versions of Victorian London, but all the stories of Sherlock Holmes are set in the same Victorian London.

* Moriarty was the one behind nearly all the crimes in the cartoon Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century, having been cloned back to life by a rogue geneticist, requiring Holmes to be ' resurrected ' as well in order to match him.

Almost all of the Sherlock Holmes collection is from his point of view.

The Baker Street Irregulars are any of several different groups, all named after the original, from various Sherlock Holmes stories in which they are a gang of young street children whom Holmes often employs to aid his cases.

Gillette also made use of a magnifying-glass, a violin and a syringe, which all came from the Canon and which were all now established as " props " to the Sherlock Holmes character.

The skit was titled The Frightful Predicament of Sherlock Holmes, and there were but five characters in the entire skit: Holmes, Billy the page boy ( played by Henry McArdle ), the madwoman Gwendolyn Cobb ( who had nearly all of the dialogue and was played by Ethel Barrymore ), and the two " valuable assistants " who come to take the madwoman away.

of all Arthur Conan Doyle ’ s Sherlock Holmes stories, illustrated by Sidney Paget, as they originally appeared in the Strand magazine.

" The importance, Kirsch claimed, sprung from " a revolution in taste, a return to qualities in fiction which all but submerged in the 20th-century vogue of realism and naturalism " and the importance was such that they were " comparable ... only to the phenomenon of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories ".

Wood was later invited to a meeting at Apple, in which he was shown a demo of Sherlock 3, which incorporated the same look and nearly all of the modules featured in Watson.

Like Professor Moriarty for Sherlock Holmes, Loveless provided West and Gordon with a worthy adversary, whose plans could be foiled but who resisted all attempts to capture him and bring him to justice.

Most noticeable of these elements is the methods of killing Moriarty off ; in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon and The Woman in Green Moriarty is seen in all three films falling a great height to his death.

Leno appeared at Drury Lane as Sister Anne in Bluebeard, a character described by Wood as " a sprightly, somewhat below middle aged person who was of a coming on disposition and who had not yet abandoned hope " The Times drama critic noted: " It is a quite peculiar and original Sister Anne, who dances breakdowns and sings strange ballads to a still stranger harp and plays ping-pong with a frying-pan and potatoes and burlesques Sherlock Holmes and wears the oddest of garments and dresses her hair like Miss Morleena Kenwigs, and speaks in a piping voice – in short it is none other than Dan Leno whom we all know ".

It expands on the comment by Doctor Watson in The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb " Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his notice -- that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Warburton's madness.

Almost immediately, the building society started receiving correspondence from Sherlock Holmes fans all over the world, in such volumes that it appointed a permanent " secretary to Sherlock Holmes " to deal with it.