Arthur Conan Doyle visits the Midnight Pals' campfire. Full episodes start releasing weekly on Tuesday 31st October.
In our antepenultimate mini-episode, Arthur Conan Doyle visits the Midnight Pals' campfire and reluctantly begins a Sherlock Holmes story.
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Script and production by Robin Johnson. The Midnight Pals is created by Bitter Karella. All characters are fictitious, especially the real ones. Elements of existing works by other authors are used for purposes of parody and comment.
Many of Arthur Conan Doyle's works are available on Project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/69 – including stories of both Sherlock Holmes and Doyle's later character Professor Challenger, a hot-headed spiritualist academic written as an antithesis to Holmes, whom Doyle had tired of in his later years, much to the chagrin of his fans and publishers.
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[BELLS CHIMING, SPOOKY ORGAN MUSIC]
VOICEOVER: Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals, created by Bitter Karella.
[MUSIC FADES OUT. OWL HOOTS. FADE IN AMBIENCE OF FOREST AT NIGHT, WITH CAMPFIRE CRACKLING NEARBY]
EDGAR ALLAN POE: It's Arthur Conan Doyle, everyone! He’s going to tell us a Sherlock Holmes story, right, Arthur?
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: (SIGH) Fine.
STEPHEN KING: Oh boy, I love Sherlock Holmes!
DEAN KOONTZ: I love him more!
DOYLE: Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story… [MAGICAL SPARKLE] the Tale of Sherlock Holmes. Again.
KOONTZ: Yaaaay!
DOYLE: One day Sherlock Holmes was walking along the top of a waterfall, when he fell off and died.
KOONTZ: (HEARTBROKEN) What? (SOBS)
BARKER: Arthur! You’re making Dean cry!
KING: Nooo!
BARKER: And Steve. (WELLING UP) and... me.
DOYLE: Oh, don’t worry about that! Because who should come along then, but Professor Challenger!
KING: Oh, for Pete’s sake.
DOYLE: Professor Challenger stroked his manly beard, turned to his tiny obedient wife—
MARY SHELLEY: (WARNINGLY) Arthur...
DOYLE: —and said, “You know, I bet there’s fairies in this waterfall!”
SHELLEY: Everyone hates Professor Challenger.
DOYLE: They’re just jealous because he’s so popular!
SHELLEY: Arthur... I’m very disappointed.
DOYLE: Oh... (DISTRESSED PAUSE. RELUCTANTLY) Then Sherlock Holmes got better.
KOONTZ: Yaaaaay!
[END MUSIC PLAYS]
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