The game’s afoot!

This week on “Picture Perfect,” it’s an hour of music from movies inspired by the world’s greatest detective.

Intrada Records has released the soundtrack to Bruce Broughton’s “Young Sherlock Holmes,” which is finally making it to compact disc after the better part of three decades.

Steven Spielberg produced the 1985 film, which offers a conjectural origins story, including Holmes and Watson’s first meeting as teenagers (ignoring the particulars laid out by Arthur Conan Doyle in his stories, with Watson already a war veteran who had served in Afghanistan).

It’s all for fun, though it’s unfortunate the filmmakers felt the need to interject ‘80s-style special effects, rather than simply trust in the inherent magic of the subject matter. “Young Sherlock Holmes” features the first photorealistic, fully computer-generated character. Also, some Indiana Jones B-movie antics involving an Egyptian cult seem especially out of place.

Interestingly, the film’s screenwriter, Chris Columbus, went on to direct the first two Harry Potter films. By my recollection, “Young Sherlock Holmes,” with its boarding school setting, has some of that same feel.

The music is certainly buoyant and beautiful, in the best John Williams tradition. Broughton, who’s probably best-known for his rousing music for the western “Silverado,” was one of the great film music hopes of the 1980s. He did score a handful of big screen hits, notably “Tombstone,” though arguably it is in the medium of television that he’s made his greatest impact. Thus far, his work has been recognized with a record 10 Grammy Awards.

Also featured will be selections from Hans Zimmer’s score for the Robert Downey, Jr., “Sherlock Holmes” (2009), Miklós Rózsa’s lovely, melancholy music for “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes” (1970), and Henry Mancini’s theme for the tame Holmes comedy “Without a Clue” (1988).

It’s elementary, my dear Watson. “Picture Perfect” can be heard this Friday evening at 6 ET, or later as a webcast, at http://www.wwfm.org.