Jeremy Brett at 10th anniversary party for the SH series

Michael Cox (from his book "A Study in Celluloid"): "Given this clear view of the profession I had worked in for thirty-five years, I should not have been surprised when I picked up a newspaper in April 1994 and read about the tenth-anniversary party for the Sherlock Holmes series. Granada was always a great company for parties, and obviously the change of management in 1992 had not reduced that enthusiasm. The party took place in the corporate hospitality area, which was all that remained of Baker Street, and was hosted by Granada’s talk show presenters, Judy Finnigan and Richard Madeley. It was, by all accounts, a splendid occasion. There were speeches by Barry Took and, for some reason, Derek Granger, the producer of Brideshead Revisited. Among the guests were a string of MPs, councillors and academics, some of the cast of Coronation Street and, of course, representatives of the company’s advertising agency and accountants. There was a fair sprinkling of actors and technicians who had worked on the later episodes and, looking desperately ill in the picture which accompanied the news story, Jeremy Brett. He had suffered another breakdown after the completion of The Memoirs; now he was taken out of hospital in London and brought to Manchester with a nurse in attendance. His regular make-up and wardrobe supervisors were there and a handful of others who had survived the whole series: Rosalie Williams, Patrick Gowers and Jeremy Paul. Apart from them there was no one connected with the episodes which were being celebrated after ten years. As far as I know, David Burke and John Hawkesworth were not among the guests, nor were Paul Annett, Alan Grint, John Bruce or the original design team. I was certainly not invited."