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Move over Ambien my wife has discovered a new sleep aid, the Sherlock Holmes mysteries on MPBN. It is a wonderful series with Jeremy Brett playing Holmes and David Burke as Dr Watson. Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the best filmed version of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, showcasing Holmes's dazzling brilliance without ignoring his unnerving intensity or drug dependencies. Dr Watson is also played as a steady companion and not a bumbling fool in the Sherlock Holmes movies of the 40's.

So this is how it plays out at our home as we begin to watch this program. My wife and I will be surfing the channels and finding nothing that we both want to watch. Then she will say " Why don't we watch the Sherlock Holmes stories that we have recorded on our DVR." So we start to watch and within 4 minutes my wife is fast asleep. Now this behaviour does not happen every once in a while. but every time we watch Sherlock Holmes adventures. And after last night I have discovered that it is all of the Sherlock Holmes adventures put her to sleep ,as confirmed by the watching of a Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's Holmes movie last night . So I am chucking the Ambien and using the much safer Holmes as a sleep aid.

PS My wife has also fallen asleep reading this post.