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Originally Posted by Phogg
The Fifty Shades Of Dorian Grey.
That fits eerily well, actually.
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That's just silly.
Fifty Shades of Hemingford Grey finds Sherlock Holmes being called to investigate an outbreak of spiritus appearances in the town of Hemingford Grey. Upon his usual investigation, he discovers that it was a hoax fostered by the head groundskeeper at the local manor, in an attempt to drive off any buyers of the estate, thereby reverting the ownership to himself, as per the late owners will.
This story is believed to be the inspiration behind the creation of the Scooby-Doo TV series in 1969. Fred Silverman, the executive in charge of daytime programming at CBS, under pressure from parent-run organisations, particularly Action for Children's Television, commissioned Hanna-Barbera to develop a mystery based show, but with elements of the very popular The Archie Show (especially musical numbers). Joseph Barbera, attempted to develop the show based on the aforementioned Sherlock Holmes story, but failed, and passed the development onto Joe Ruby, Ken Spears and Iwao Takamoto. They developed the Scooby-Doo show as we know it today.