OFF: A request for some UK library research assistance

[Arin Komins]

The Sherlock Holmes play was The Secret of Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy 
Brett and Edward Hardwicke.  I saw it in the summer of '89, and wikipedia 
tells me that it started in 1988, so probably the same one :-)

Thanks,

Arin

On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Ben Cohen wrote:

:Subject: OFF: A request for some UK library research assistance
:
:Hello, all,
:
:This is completely off-topic. I need some help with a little research on
:something for a personal project. This will, I believe, probably just involve
:10-20 minutes in a library somewhere (probably anywhere?) in the UK.
:
:Specifically, I'm trying to find a list of the shows (plays, musicals - that
:sort of thing) that were on-stage in London in November and December, 1988. My
:initial thought for how to get that was to take a look at some archived
:newspapers to look at performance listings from a few weeks back then.
:However, the newspaper archives seem to only be available (free) from
:libraries in the UK. Otherwise, they're rather expensive to get individual
:issues.
:
:Is there, perhaps, anyone on that side of the pond who might be willing to
:take a run to a library for me (or, for that matter, if you've got any other
:way to find it)?
:
:By way of verifying said list of shows - it should definitely include "A Walk
:in the Woods", staring Alec Guinness, and another one (title uncertain) that
:was a Sherlock Holmes play.
:
:Oh, and if, indeed, the easiest way to do this is just to grab some page
:images from a few archived newspapers - please - that's really all I need.
:I've got no problems with browsing through them myself.
:
:So... anyone out there willing and able to lend me a hand? Please? :-)
:
:Ben
:

Thanks,

Arin
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