The Watsonian Weekly

Since we never plan special holiday episodes, everyone is pretty normal except the host, and . . .  well, you know how he is. The Watson facts and fun are flying like a witch on a broom, though, so let your ears have a trick or treat with the Watsonian Weekly!

The John H. Watson Society spends some time talking about Watson's potential as a monster, Buck gets a question about wipers, Roxy waxes poetic, and Maddy tosses a popular Watson on to the rugby field. All that and 10% more! It's Watson time!

John H. Watson, monster-killer, ladies man, and a few other things that will come up this week as we give our hero his Monday morning fifteen minutes of fame.

With news this past week of a brand new TV series about John Watson in development, bull pups Buck, Maddie, and Calder get together on Zoom for a round table on what that could mean, making a long arm and sweeping all the normal features off onto the floor for this week to discuss it.

Have you spent enough time thinking about Watson this week? Have any of us? Here's another fifteen minutes for you to add to your weekly Watson resume with . . . oh, it's just fifteen minutes, listen and find out!

We get through the Watson news pretty quick in this extra long episode, but then we test our listeners' endurance with a reader's theatrical adaptation of a novel by one of Watson's favorite writers. Take the Clark Russell Challenger and see if you can make it to the end of this week's episode!

Which Watson taught Holmes, what was Watson's favorite colour, and why are we talking about greeting cards? Most of those answers are in the title of this episode, but it'll only cost you ten minutes to find out the rest, as the host is having a bit of an off week. It's Watson time!

More mentions of tomatoes on this week's podcast that in the entire first forty years of Sherlockian publishing! And the return of the non-Watson author that we love to talk about, especially in September.

How does the musical ear of Josh Harvey hear a meeting of the John H. Watson Society? Who had a tendo achilles? Do mice play rugby? And why did Watson's friends take him to the movies in 1927? Quite a week for the Watsonians this Weekly!

The John H. Watson Society works out the worst Watson on screens, bull pup Maddie works out a Granada Watson's rugby skills, bull pup Roxie rhymes the Musgrave story, bull pup Buck gives Watson's real middle name, and what might Watson's literary agent have done in 1900 to get on the doctor's good side? All this and . . . well, all that . . . this week on the Watsonian Weekly.

Did some villain send an American to seduce Sherlock Holmes away from Watson? What do symposiums on Watson's works talk about when they're not talking about Watson? These questions and more, possibly answered this week.

What's the hardest part of the John H. Watson Society's annual treasure hunt? Who can baffle the Best of Blackheath decider? And what do cucumbers have to do with anything? These, and other answers to questions you didn't really care about, but will listen to for fifteen minutes. (Or thereabouts.)

We've got a treasure hunt master as a guest, some live reporting from Indiana, and an actual rugby player explaining rugby for American listerners. Your fifteen minutes of Watson is here!

This episode wanders all over the map in its pursuit of John H. Watson, so buckly up. Still, only about fifteen minutes, so the ride will be over pretty quickly.

Bull Pup Maddie gives the scoop on the latest and greatest Doctor Watson, Bull Pup Roxie has a shocking poetic revelation about the Honourable Philip Green, and Bull Pups Buck and Calder have it out over whose headcanon Watson is the worst. You may want to listen to this one, just so you know what the Sherlockians at the water cooler are going on about this Monday.

Somehow if you put all this together, a surprising assassin in Afghanistan turned Watson sexy. And yet Maddy is unsure if one of him could do rugby. Is it all connected? Have you listened to this podcast before? Of course not. But here ya go!

Bull pup Maddie gets our news feed up to date with some events catch-up, bull pup Roxie double-takes "A Case of Identity," bull pup Buck has info on Holmes and bees you've NEVER heard before, and bull pup Calder should be fired for at least two things on this episode. It's an extra long one! (Well, for us!)

While it might be an American holiday weekend, Doctor Watson is still on his rounds. Sandy Kozinn does give us a version of Hound that poetically suits the Fourth, Paul answers Rob Nunn's burning question, and Madeline speculates on a Russian Watson's potential for rugby. Think the Literary Agent isn't taking ten percent of an episode like that? Think again!

This week we hear from the John H. Watson Society, who would clearly rather talk about Watson's army pension than his summer beach parties. Bull Pup Buck gives us a final, authoritative answer about Watson running with a wounded leg. Bull Pup Maddie decides a certain unpopped pea fan's sporty potential. And Bull Pup Roxie poetically chases the Hound. All this and the necessary ten percent cut for...

It's about Watson somehow. You know this show. And if you don't, WELCOME TO THE PARTY!

Are we slightly off our game this week? Well, some are some aren't, but here's your weekly dose of Watson, even if personally I think it needs a little ketchup.

This week, our Watson topics hit on a Broadway leading man, a royal execution, a guy named Arthur, and someone who had violet eyes but was not named "Violet." And it's all Watson lore and legend, as it should be! It's Watson time!

There was a meeting of the John H. Watson Society this week, so things get a little more random than usual. Eggs come up a lot. Watson's drink of choice. Nigel Bruce. Five Orange Pips. And that's just for starters.

In this episode, we come to the realization that Mary Morstan Watson isn't getting enough attention, and still pay more attention to a Watson's rugby, his literary agent, and even furze bushes without giving the woman a regular feature.

Watson's many facets take us quite a few places this week -- from Kipling to a pirate we've never heard of to the atheleticism of Colin Blakely. And remember, once you've paid attention to something, you can't get a refund!