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View halloo! It’s time to register for our next meeting! We’ll be meeting on Zoom on June 28th at 2pm Eastern/1pm Central.

This meeting starts our summer non-programming: that is, we will be meeting purely to chit-chat! All Sherlockians are welcome. Bring something for show & tell, though!

Please register here.

Have you heard about Fogtown? It’s a YouTube show and an upcoming video game that reimagine the world of Sherlock Holmes as a world of puppets.

Join us for our next meeting, May 31st, at 2pm Eastern, to watch a demo of the video game. Sean Parker (JHWS “Pedro”) will run us through the demo, and then we’ll have a Q&A session afterwards, during which you can ask Sean your questions about the project!

Register for the meeting here. Remember, you don’t have to be a member to attend a meeting! Come join us!

You may have heard by now the sad news that David Burke has passed away at the age of 91. The news was first broken yesterday by the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast, as they had been in touch with the family.

Since then, I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere has posted both a written tribute and a podcast episode in memory of David, featuring Gus and Luke Holwerda of the JBSH podcast, and an official obituary has been issued by The Times (UK). The obituary is worth the read if you are a fan; the written IHOSE tribute is very moving; and the IHOSE episode is a lovely cap to the reading.

If you have not listened to the interview Gus and Luke conducted with David and his wife Anna Calder-Marshall in 2022, you can listen to it here. In this episode of the podcast, the brothers talk about their trip to England that included that interview. Lastly, the JBSH podcast hosted an event in the UK in 2024 called “BrettCon,” to celebrate the Granada series’ 40th anniversary. Stephen Fry and several actors from the series sent video messages to the event, including David and his family.

David Burke was one of the finest and most beloved Watsons ever to grace the screen. He was just shy of his 92nd birthday, and he is survived by his wife Anna Calder-Marshall and his son Tom Burke.

By all accounts, he was a gentleman and a wonderful human being. He could have stayed on to play Watson much longer, which would have made many of us very happy, but he chose to leave the show to be nearer to his family, especially since Tom was very young at the time.

His was not the first intelligent and competent Watson, but this version marked a turning point in mainstream depictions, from comedic sidekick to a hero in his own right.

RIP, dear sir. You will be missed. Thank you for everything.

View halloo! It’s time to register for our May meeting! We’ll be meeting on Zoom on May 31st, the last Sunday of the month, at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT.

We have no discussion topic yet, but join us anyway to find out what we’ll be doing!

You can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/glkxUmi1T-i8ZH_NmQPRjA

Hello, bullpups!

It’s time to register for this month’s meeting. We will meet on Zoom on Sunday, April 26, at 2pm ET/1pm CT, and we’ll be discussing the goings-on at 221B Con this past month. If you attended Con, please come with your memories and anything you want to share in show-and-tell!

All Sherlockians are welcome — you do not have to be a member to attend.

You can register at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/wTin-YhoStWZ3Kqs0dLK8g

Hello, Watsonians! Sorry for the all-caps, but I wanted to make sure I got your attention. Are you got? Excellent.

We will be going back one hour to 1 p.m. ET on our next meeting after all. That’s 1 p.m. Eastern/noon Central on Sunday the 29th, and the meeting will last one hour exactly. Why? Well, at 2 p.m. ET, Ed Pettit (JHWS “Pipes”) will be hosting the next episode of Sherlock Monthly with Dan Stashower and Derrick Belanger as co-hosts, and they will be discussing “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot.” We want to make sure that we’re not conflicting with this one-time Sunday edition of Sherlock Monthly, and that any Sherlockians who want to make it to both virtual events can do so!

So what’s our agenda? Since our attendance has changed so much in the past few years, we’re bringing back an old discussion topic and seeing what we can come up with this time!

In The Sign of the Four, Watson says of Mary Morstan: “In an experience of women which extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.” Which three continents do you think Watson is speaking of? And for that matter, what are the “many nations” we think he’s visited? Join us on the 29th to share your ideas!

All Sherlockians are welcome. You can register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IT5XUbeBRN2EkuHvnJ4mNQ

View halloo! It’s time to register for this month’s Zoom! All Sherlockians are welcome.

Please join us on Sunday the 29th at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT — and remember that we’re now meeting an hour later than we used to!

You can register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/IT5XUbeBRN2EkuHvnJ4mNQ

It’s time to register for this month’s Zoom! All Sherlockians are welcome.

Please join us on Sunday the 22nd at 2 p.m. ET/1 p.m. CT — and remember that we’re now meeting an hour later than we used to!

You can register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/WOcF-O1SRBqGzdIpAv-36w

View halloo, it’s time to register for the JHWS January Zoom! Come join us, whether you’re a bullpup or not!

We will be meeting on Jan. 25th, a Sunday, at two p.m. Eastern/one p.m. Central Time. Please note the time change — we are meeting one hour later than we used to!

In the aftermath of all the birthday celebrations, we’ll be recalling all the things we got to do in a guided discussion. Also, suggestions and recommendations for what we can do at future meetings are welcome!

You can register for the meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u4dVv5vBQ1WWfMOkqTw1eQ See you then!

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It’s that time to wish your Baker Street friends “Compliments of the season!” and the John H. Watson Society will be gathering on Zoom for its last meeting of 2025!

Here’s the link to register:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gVJJIe0US0qyAuUErTI18w