or, "things that scared me as a kid, part 1."

My parents were big fans of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes when I was a kid, and every Sunday night (at least I remember it being on Sundays) they'd turn on Mystery! and scare me half to death with the Edward Gorey-animated introduction:

There's an alternate version as well - equally terrifying, mostly do to the wailing woman and score by Normand Roger:

Granted, I absolutely love watching this today.  The murder-in-high-Victorian-society imagery and stately-but-macabre score is great, as is the narration - how does someone fill the phrase "a grant from the Mobil corporation" with so much dread?

Was anyone else as traumatized by this as I was?  And why didn't Holmes ever solve any of the cases that occurred immediately before he appeared on screen?

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