TYLER ADAMS joins me to discuss THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE MASTER BLACKMAILER.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on January 11th 2026.

This week we welcome back - after far too long an absence - our friend TYLER ADAMS whose popular GOON POD podcast has become the very benchmark for everything that you should ever need to know about that peculiarly British radio comedy phenomenon, THE GOON SHOW, the Goons themselves, just about everything relating to them, and British comedy in general, and is well worth tracking down.

For a bit of a change, however, TYLER suggested that we talk about a subject that is not Goon related, nor is it even a comedy topic, which is THE MASTER BLACKMAILER a feature-length offering from GRANADA TELEVISION’s now legendary SHERLOCK HOLMES series featuring JEREMY BRETT as HOLMES and, in this instance EDWARD HARDWICKE as DOCTOR WATSON.

This episode, featuring an astonishing guest appearance by ROBERT HARDY, was part of THE CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES selection which followed on from their very popular ADVENTURES OF and RETURN OF series, and comes from 1992, eight years after the series first began, and during a period when the series was experimenting with a longer format for the short stories after previously only extending the episodes for adaptations of the CONAN-DOYLE NOVEL-LENGTH stories, THE SIGN OF FOUR and, inevitably, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.

PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.