It's not so elementary for old man Sherlock.

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As entertaining as today's high-tech TV crime dramas are--who doesn't love "CSI,""Law & Order," "Criminal Minds," "NCIS," and the like?--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stands alone in the pantheon of iconic detectives and crime-solvers. Not surprisingly, he has been remade many times and interpreted in countless ways over the years. In fact, two contemporary efforts, the BBC's "Sherlock" (part of PBS's "Masterpiece" anthology series), with Benedict Cumberbatch as the London-based 21st-century Holmes and Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson, and the equally impressive CBS effort of "Elementary," with Holmes (Johnny Lee Miller) and (a sexy and smart) Dr. "Joan" Watson (Lucy Liu) relocated to present-day New York--by the way, Watson first was portrayed on-screen as a woman in the 1971 movie, 'They May Be Giants," starring Joanne Woodward as Watson and George C. Scott as Holmes--have kept the world's greatest consulting detective fresh in the public eye these last few years, as have the films "Sherlock...