Jeremy Paul Movies

"The Speckled Band" is an exceptional episode of the television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, an excellent adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories, produced in Britain for Granada TV. In this episode directed by John Bruce, Jeremy Brett portrays the famed detective aided by his companion Dr. Watson (David Burke). Holmes solves a mysterious murder evidenced only by a series of marks on the body of the deceased. This episode, written by Jeremy Paul is one of the most famous, enjoyable, and suspenseful of the Holmes stories and is faithful to the original story first published in the Strand Magazine in the late 19th century. This series was followed by several sequels, as well as several TV movie adaptations. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi

Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Police at the Funeral. This time, Campion finds himself in Cambridge, at the ancestral home of the dissolute Faraday family. Most of the family members are hanging around, waiting anxiously for wealthy, strong-willed Caroline Faraday (Marry Morris) to shuffle off her mortal coil. It is not Caroline who dies, however, but instead two of the greedy relatives: Uncle Andrew Seely (John Franklyn-Robbins) is found floating in a nearby river, and then Aunt Julia (Gillian Martell) is poisoned. With no shortage of suspects with motive and opportunity, Campion is somewhat relieved when yet another Faraday shows up, claiming to have witnessed Uncle Andrew's demise -- but can this relative, or anyone else for that matter, be trusted? In America, "Police at the Funeral" was telecast October 26 and November 2, 1989, as part of the PBS anthology Mystery! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Hammer recut and repackaged two installments of their popular television series Journey to the Unknown (one of the earliest projects of longtime Hammer director Roy Ward Baker) for this theatrical release. The first tale involves a guest at an unusual masquerade party at which he is given an unflattering look at his past misdeeds; the second installment stars The Haunting's Julie Harris as a rich woman pursued by a slimy, gold-digging potential suitor who meets his comeuppance thanks to an ancient Indian spirit. Though rather staid in comparison to Baker's flamboyant anthology work for Amicus, this is nevertheless a moody and stylish pair of tales, if not fully representative of the series' finer moments. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

Part of the long-running British mystery series Sherlock Holmes starring Jeremy Brett, "The Three Gables" originally aired in the U.K. in 1994 during the seventh season. In this episode, Mary Maberley (Mary Ellis) calls for an investigation after she is offered a lot of money to sell her estate. Meanwhile, her brother Douglas (Gary Cady) has been killed and his memoirs stolen. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Sherlock Holmes goes from investigating mere murder and mayhem to a fiend of possibly supernatural origin in this made-for-TV thriller. In the 1790's, a wave of murders hits the small British community of Lamberley; as the victims are young women who suffer severe wounds and bleeding from their necks, many locals believe a vampire is to blame, and that the aristocratic but mysterious Lord St. Clair is thought to be the creature of the night in question. A gang surrounds and lynches Lord St. Clair, pounding a stake through his heart and burning him. In the early 20th Century, a similar series of murders begin happening in the same small town, shortly after the arrival of John Stockton (Roy Marsden), a distant relative of Lord St. Clair, who often visits the grave of his dead ancestor. The people of Lamberley believe Stockton is to blame, and noted detective Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) is brought in to investigate. Holmes and his associate Watson (Edward Hardwicke) discover Stockton is a student of the occult who enjoys playing with the assumptions of others, but in time they wonder if he may indeed be a vampire after all. Sherlock Holmes: The Last Vampyre was adapted from the short story The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Previously filmed in 1927 and 1934, Warwick Deeping's novel Sorrel and Son was adapted as a British TV miniseries in 1984. Set in the 1920s, the story concerned the efforts of impoverished Captain Stephen Sorrell (Richard Pasco) to raise his son Kit (Paul Critchley) all by himself, after his wife had walked out on him. Despite many deprivations, Kit grew up to become a doctor, justifying the years of devotion and sacrifice on the part of Sorrel Sr. The six hour-long episodes of Sorrel and Son were telecast by Yorkshire Television. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

February, 1920: Distressed over the plight of disenfranchised WWI veterans, James Bellamy (Simon Williams) publishes a letter on the subject. The ensuing public response causes James to consider following his father's example by entering politics. Meanwhile, newlywed servants Edward (Christopher Beeney) and Daisy (Jacqueline Tong) are laid low by the postwar recession. Written by Jeremy Paul, "A Place in the World" was seen in England on September 14, 1975, before its American TV premiere on January 23, 1977. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

First telecast in England on February 13, 1972 as the tenth episode of Upstairs, Downstairs, "A Voice from the Past" subsequently aired in America on January 13, 1974, as the series' second installment (episodes two through nine were not seen in the US until 1988). In the autumn of 1908, while performing charity work in the East End, Elizabeth and James Bellamy (Nicola Pagett), Simon Williams) come across a starving derelict who turns out to be their former under-parlor housemaid Sarah (Pauline Collins). Taking pity on Sarah, Elizabeth hires her back at 165 Eaton Place, this time as a lowly scullery maid. The envious Sarah immediately begins plotting the removal of her replacement, Alice (Susan Porrett). "A Voice from the Past" was written by Jeremy Paul. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi