The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes/The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn

My latest movie viewing was an adaptation of The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn by John Bellairs, made for CBS Children's Mystery Theatre in 1980 and bizarrely titled The Clue According to Sherlock Holmes. At first I thought the movie had been mislabeled and I was watching the wrong thing, as these bad imitations of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson appeared. Dr. Watson in particular came across as a complete idiot Holmes would probably never put up with. He didn't need someone like that to make him feel intelligent. The addition of Holmes and Watson to the story was utterly nonsensical. The book story about Anthony Monday took place in the 1950s, but judging by hairstyles, clothing, and other details, the movie was contemporary to when it was made, in other words, Anthony lived in 1980. Holmes and Watson were not updated. They were in Victorian clothing with a street scene outside of similarly dressed people and a horse driven hansom cab. So either they were living in 1980 but still dressing and acting Victorian in a neighborhood which did the same, or Holmes had the ability to not only see about 90 years into the future but also receive future newspapers which would seem to involve some sort of time travel which as far as I know never appeared in the Holmes stories. It was totally weird, unnecessary, and made no damn sense, and as I say they were not even very good versions of Holmes and Watson. The part of the story about Anthony Monday pretty well followed the plot of the novel except for the treasure taking a somewhat different form, but its discovery and the rest of the Monday movie ranged from at least watchable to fairly good. Only Holmes and Watson ruined it and should have been left out entirely. All they did was come on from time to time with Holmes explaining to Watson how Anthony followed the clues as if the viewer couldn't see that for themself.