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Jeremy Brett in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984)

David Burke: Dr. John Watson

The Dancing Men

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

David Burke credited as playing...

Dr. John Watson

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  • Sherlock Holmes: His family has owned land in Derbyshire for over five hundred years, so I presume that Mr. Cubitt is as respectable as he is worthy.
  • Dr Watson: [while looking out the window at Mr. Cubitt] With a fresh face, an open countenance, and wearing a brown bowler hat.
  • Sherlock Holmes: [not realizing Watson was looking out the window] Oh no, you can't possibly know that!
  • Dr Watson: [smirking] Really, Holmes?
  • Dr. John Watson: Sherlock Holmes is cheerful, so Sherlock Holmes must have a case.
  • Dr. John Watson: How absurdly simple...
  • Sherlock Holmes: Quite so. Every problem is absurdly simple when it is explained to you.
  • Dr. John Watson: Do you think he'll be armed?
  • Sherlock Holmes: He's a fool if he's not.
  • [last lines]
  • Dr Watson: [narration] And so the dancing men, which had so often been the agents of evil, were finally used on the side of justice. Abe Slaney was condemned to death at the Darby assizes, but his sentence was changed to penal servitude in consideration of mitigating circumstances in the certainty that Hilton Cubitt had fired the first shot. Mrs Cubitt made a complete recovery and lives still at Ridling Thorpe Manor.

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