The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)

The Red Headed League (1985)

David Burke: Dr. John Watson

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Hm!

  Dr. John Watson : [entering]  Oh. Sorry, Holmes.

  Sherlock Holmes : No no. You couldn't have come at a better time.

  Dr. John Watson : Well, I was, I was afraid you were engaged.

  Sherlock Holmes : I am. Very much so.

• Dr. John Watson : What are you going to do?

  Sherlock Holmes : To smoke. It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

• [last lines] 

  Sherlock Holmes : Sometimes I think my whole life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence.

  Dr. John Watson : No no, you are a benefactor of the race, Holmes.

  Sherlock Holmes : Well, maybe it is of some little use after all. "L'homme c'est rien - l'oeuvre c'est tout," as Gustave Flaubert wrote to Georges Sand. Hm?

• Sherlock Holmes : Now I begin to think my reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico.'

  Dr. John Watson : [to Mr. Wilson]  Everything becomes commonplace by explanation.

  Sherlock Holmes : Watson, that is a very loose translation!