Our BBC Sherlock

Back in September last year I announced that I had finally made all of my Sherlock transcripts available to download. I have now updated all of the downloads to incorporate the transcript of The Abominable Bride. However, for the benefit of anyone who downloaded earlier versions and then edited/annotated them and doesn’t want to tamper with them, I’ve also added TAB-only files in the hope that they’ll be useful to a few people.

The various downloadable versions of the transcripts are:

1. One single file containing all the episodes (including the pilot, Many Happy Returns and the Special). 473 pages, with a page index and everything! Additionally, there is a TAB-only version.
2. One single file containing all the episodes (including the pilot, MHR and the Special) with just the speaker and the spoken words. No descriptions or voice tones, no snarky asides from your transcriber. A mere 213 pages! Additionally, a TAB-only version.
3. One single file containing a list of all the lines spoken by each of 25 of the characters throughout all the episodes (including the pilot, MHR and the Special). 179 pages, with a handy page index so you can easily see who’s included and then jump to the appropriate character’s lines. Additionally ... no, sorry, you’re on your own with that one.

All files are available to download in Word (.docx) or as a PDF. To save clogging up this comm, if you’re interested in more details, head to my updated LJ blog entry here for the links.

Title: Transcript of the Sherlock Special trailer
Transcriber: Ariane DeVere

For anyone struggling with the dialogue in the trailer of the Special released yesterday, here’s a quick transcript of the spoken words only. The trailer itself is widely available online.

I hope it’s okay to put this up when it’s not 100% Sherlock-specific, but seeing as Andrew and Amanda were amongst the guests and there was some talk about the show, hopefully it’s still relevant.

This was the second time that Mark has done this to raise funds for the London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard. As Ian Hallard explained when he did the introduction, the last time two years ago had been solely Sherlock-related but “in the intervening years Mark has found himself six whole new friends!”

This is just a summary of parts of the conversations with Mark’s guests: Sue Perkins, Andrew Scott, Amanda Abbington, Miranda Richardson, Derren Brown and Peter Capaldi.

My report here

I’ve done the usual partial transcript of the DVD episode commentary for “The Empty Hearse.” A transcript of the commentary for “His Last Vow” should be done in a couple of days’ time.

Commentary transcript

Now that I have had time to go back and rewatch all the series 3 episodes carefully, both from the TV and on the DVD, and with and without subtitles/closed captions, I’ve made quite a lot of amendments and additions to the transcripts. I’ve also added a few more Transcriber’s Notes at the very end of His Last Vow.

I mention this only for the benefit of those who like to copy and paste the transcripts into single documents for future reference; and for the benefit of the Americans who may have now come out of their self-induced spoiler-avoiding exile!

Links to the transcripts for all three seasons, plus DVD extras, are here.

Now complete!

Part 4

Or start from the beginning

Now, where’s that ‘bed’ thing I used to lie in occasionally? I need to do some of that ‘sleep’ stuff which I vaguely remember, in case the DVD that comes out on Monday has commentaries on it. *cries*