profbrane
Joined Jul 2006
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Entertaining documentary about the world of land speed racing. It covers the beginnings of the ultimate land speed record to the latest attempts, amateur hot rodders going for class records and Chuck Yeager using archive footage and interviews. Which is where this documentary fails a bit. It needed to focus on one aspect. Either the ultimate land speed record or the amateur hot rodders going for class records in their home built cars (and motorcycles). And while I would never denigrate Chuck Yeager or his accomplishments, they did not belong in this program whose main focus is purportedly LAND speed records.
I don't recall any glaring technical or historic errors.
Worth watching but could have been better.
This episode borrows very little from the Conan Doyle story. It uses most of the name and Sherlock Holmes falling from the original story. It's still not too bad even with the goofy Moriarty on the scene. The guy is too cartoonish to be taken seriously.
This episode is very loosely based on the book "The Hound of the Baskervilles". It also benefits from not including the clownish Moriarty among the characters.
