query: who wrote the music for sherlock holmes bbc

pos: Michael Price (composer) Michael Price (composer) Michael Price is an English award-winning composer, producer, arranger and music editor. He writes in full orchestral and electronic and contemporary idioms, and is a producer, arranger and programmer. He won an Emmy Award with David Arnold for the music for the BBC TV series "Sherlock." The son of a Physics teacher and Biology teacher Michael studied music at school, before starting his music career on the Tonmeister course at Surrey University, where he won the PRS composition prize in 1990. After writing a number of scores for contemporary dance in his early 20s, he became Musical

pos: His Last Vow His Last Vow "His Last Vow" is the third and final episode of the third series of the BBC Television series "Sherlock", which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The episode was first broadcast on 12 January 2014, on BBC One and Channel One. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Nick Hurran with music composed by Michael Price and David Arnold. The episode is a contemporary adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton". In the episode, Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Martin Freeman) take on a case

pos: His Last Vow Awards, "His Last Vow" won seven Emmys, the most for any TV programme. His Last Vow "His Last Vow" is the third and final episode of the third series of the BBC Television series "Sherlock", which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The episode was first broadcast on 12 January 2014, on BBC One and Channel One. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Nick Hurran with music composed by Michael Price and David Arnold. The episode is a contemporary adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton". In the episode,

neg: Michael Hardwick (writer) Michael Hardwick (writer) Michael Hardwick (1924-1991) was an English author who was best known for writing books and radio plays which featured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Hardwick married fellow author Mollie Hardwick in 1961. Hardwick penned a dramatisation of "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" for the BBC Light Programme in 1959, which starred Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Doctor Watson. With his wife, Mollie Hardwick, he wrote a 1963 radio play "The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes". In 1979, Hardwick wrote "The Prisoner of the Devil" which features Holmes called in to

neg: Steven Moffat appointment as show-runner for "Doctor Who". During their journeys from London to Cardiff for "Doctor Who", Moffat and Mark Gatiss conceived a contemporary update of Sherlock Holmes, called "Sherlock". Benedict Cumberbatch was cast as Holmes, with Martin Freeman as Dr Watson. A 60-minute pilot, written by Moffat, was filmed in January 2009. The pilot was not broadcast, but three 90-minute episodes were commissioned. Moffat wrote the first of these, "A Study in Pink", which was broadcast on 25 July 2010 on BBC One and BBC HD. A second series was broadcast in January 2012, for which Moffat wrote the episode

neg: Sherlock Holmes pastiches Jekyll, respectively. The former was adapted for radio by the BBC. Cay Van Ash wrote the novel "Ten Years Beyond Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes matches wits with the diabolical Dr. Fu Manchu" (1984), set in 1914, in which the apparently retired detective comes into conflict with Sax Rohmer’s villainous master criminal. Canadian writer Ron Weyman published three novels between 1989 and 1994 which imagined Sherlock Holmes as being sent to Canada at the behest of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, and investigating crimes there. Holmes aficionado Stephen Fry wrote a short story featuring Holmes, "The Adventure of the Laughing Jarvey",

neg: Kurti & Doyle written for the BBC One's "Robin Hood" (2006) and two episodes of ITV1's "Primeval" (2007). Their two part BBC Sherlock Holmes drama "Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars" was produced by Andy Rowley for RDF Media (kids) and screened on BBC One in March 2007. They also wrote the two-part adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel "Going Postal" for Sky 1 HD, and were scriptwriters on the Tandem Communications/Syfy co-production "The Lost Future", an action adventure TV movie set in a future that suffers from genetic regression. For Big Finish Productions, they wrote a reboot audio drama based on the

neg: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Region 2 collection of the Wilmer episodes on 30 March 2015. The set includes all surviving episodes and reconstructions of the incomplete episodes, as well as five audio commentaries, an interview with Wilmer, an illustrated booklet, and other special features. Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Sherlock Holmes (alternatively Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) is a British series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations for television produced by BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television. Set in the Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant consultant detective, as well as a private

neg: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Sherlock Holmes (alternatively Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) is a British series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations for television produced by BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television. Set in the Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant consultant detective, as well as a private detective. He is consulted by the police and by other private detectives to aid them in solving crimes. He also takes private cases himself, and his clients range from paupers to kings. His deductive abilities and encyclopedic knowledge help him

neg: Jeremy Nicholas (writer) than twenty books for radio and spoken word recordings. From 1977 to 1991 he wrote the lyrics and music for nearly 150 songs for BBC Radio 4's "Stop the Week" chaired by Robert Robinson. He played Dr. Watson to Peter Egan's Sherlock Holmes in "Second Holmes" (a Radio 4 series). In 2000 he dramatised and appeared in "The Fast Gentleman" by Keble Howard, also for Radio 4. Nicholas is currently a regular contributor as critic and feature writer to "Gramophone" and "International Piano", having previously written for "Classic FM Magazine", "Classic CD", "BBC Music Magazine", "Piano" and "International Record Review".

neg: Sherlock Holmes (1951 TV series) Sherlock Holmes (1951 TV series) Sherlock Holmes (a.k.a. We Present Alan Wheatley as Mr Sherlock Holmes in...) was a 1951 television series produced by the BBC featuring Alan Wheatley as Sherlock Holmes, Raymond Francis as Dr. Watson and Eric Maturin as Colonel Moran. This was the first series of Sherlock Holmes stories adapted for television. Some sources state that a BBC filmed adaptation of "The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone" (which aired on 29 July 1951) starring Andrew Osborn as Holmes and Philip King as Watson was a pilot episode for the series while others claim the "Mazarin Stone" adaptation

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes 1960s, there was a BBC TV series entitled "Sherlock Holmes" with Douglas Wilmer and Nigel Stock. Peter Cushing, who had earlier played the detective in the Hammer version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", later took over from Wilmer in the lead role. The 24 part series "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" (1979–1980) starred Geoffrey Whitehead as Holmes and Donald Pickering as Watson. In 1982, Granada Television aired an eight-part series entitled "" which told the story of Holmes' youth. The show starred Guy Henry as Sherlock Holmes. Also in 1982, the BBC produced an adaptation of The Hound of

neg: Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars and shot and post produced in Dublin, Ireland. Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars is a 2007 BBC television drama about Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of children who would occasionally help him. It stars Jonathan Pryce as Sherlock Holmes and Bill Paterson as Dr Watson with Anna Chancellor and Aaron Johnson. The Baker Street Irregulars investigate as several of their members go missing, while also trying to prevent Sherlock Holmes — who is undergoing a personal crisis — being convicted of murder. It is an original story

neg: Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars is a 2007 BBC television drama about Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, a gang of children who would occasionally help him. It stars Jonathan Pryce as Sherlock Holmes and Bill Paterson as Dr Watson with Anna Chancellor and Aaron Johnson. The Baker Street Irregulars investigate as several of their members go missing, while also trying to prevent Sherlock Holmes — who is undergoing a personal crisis — being convicted of murder. It is an original story by Kurti & Doyle, Produced by Andy Rowley

neg: Peter Haining (author) of Haining's influential non-fiction works, "The Legend and Bizarre Crimes of Spring Heeled Jack". He wrote several reference books on the BBC TV programme "Doctor Who", including the 20th anniversary special "Doctor Who: A Celebration Two Decades Through Time and Space" (1983), and also wrote the definitive study of Sherlock Holmes on the screen, "The Television Sherlock Holmes" (1991) and several other television tie-ins featuring famous literary characters, including Maigret, Poirot, Dr. Finlay and James Bond. Peter Haining's most recent project was a series of World War Two stories based on extensive research and personal interviews: "The Jail That Went

neg: Harry Potter influences and analogues Game"; in his words, Chris Columbus, who directed the first two "Harry Potter" film adaptations, has cited the 1985 film "Young Sherlock Holmes", which he wrote, as an influence in his direction for those films. "That was sort of a predecessor to this movie, in a sense", he told the BBC in 2001, "It was about two young boys and a girl in a British boarding school who had to fight a supernatural force." Scenes from "Young Sherlock Holmes" were subsequently used to cast the first Harry Potter film. On 3 January 2010, Irish journalist Declan Lynch (writing in "The

neg: Patrick Macnee Mayo's BBC Radio One breakfast show. Macnee appeared in "Magnum, P.I." (1984) as a retired, but delusional, British agent, who believed he was Sherlock Holmes, in a season four episode titled "Holmes Is Where the Heart Is". He played both Holmes and Dr. Watson on several occasions. He played Watson three times: once alongside Roger Moore's Sherlock Holmes in a TV film, "Sherlock Holmes in New York" (1976), and twice with Christopher Lee, first in "Incident at Victoria Falls" (1991), and then in "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady" (1992). He played Holmes in another TV film, "The Hound of

neg: The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes was a BBC Radio 2 comedy series written by Tony Hare. It starred Roy Hudd, Chris Emmett, Jeffrey Holland, and June Whitfield, and was broadcast between 16 January 1999, to 20 February 1999. It has since been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra (formerly called "BBC Radio 7"). The burlesque series was a comic pastiche of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The series was recorded in front of a live audience and each 30 minute episode was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 at

neg: BBC Books 2011. Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",with an introduction by Mark Gatiss, followed on 27 October 2011. Three books "Sherlock: Sign of Four, Sherlock: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and "Sherlock: The Hound of the Baskervilles" with introductions by Martin Freeman, Steve Thompson and Benedict Cumberbatch were released on 29 March 2012. In autumn 2012, BBC Books has published "Sherlock: The Casebook" as a hardback gift guide, revisiting all the mysteries solved throughout the TV series. BBC Books BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority owned and managed by Penguin Random House

neg: Sherlock Holmes (1931 film series) no better Sherlock Holmes than Arthur Wontner is likely to be seen and heard in pictures, in our time." Wontner's final performance as Sherlock Holmes was in a 1943 BBC adaptation of "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" with Carleton Hobbs as Dr. Watson. Hobbs himself later went on to play Holmes in a radio series. Sherlock Holmes (1931 film series) Sherlock Holmes is a film series running from 1931 to 1937. Arthur Wontner portrayed Sherlock Holmes in five films. Having been told he resembled Doyle's creation for years, Wontner was finally cast in the role for "The Sleeping Cardinal" in 1931.

neg: Maurice Denham Sherlock Holmes. He also appeared (heavily made-up) in another Sherlock Holmes episode, starring Douglas Wilmer as Holmes, The Retired Colourman, first shown by the BBC in 1965. He made a guest appearance in the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who" in the 1984 serial "The Twin Dilemma", the first story to star Colin Baker in the title role as the Sixth Doctor. He later appeared in the "Doctor Who" radio serial "The Paradise of Death" in 1993 alongside Jon Pertwee. As The Honourable Mr Justice Stephen Rawley in two episodes of the BBC prison comedy "Porridge", he ends up

neg: The Adventure of the Lion's Mane Lion's Mane" was indirectly referenced in the BBC adaptation "Sherlock" in "The Six Thatchers", where Sherlock and John, while solving cases, jokingly comment on the stupidity of arresting a jellyfish. The Adventure of the Lion's Mane "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" (1926), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes". It is notable for being narrated by Holmes himself, instead of by Dr. Watson (who does not appear in the story). Holmes is enjoying his retirement

neg: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking is a British television film originally broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 26 December 2004. Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, it was written by Allan Cubitt and was a sequel to the same company's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", made for the BBC two years previously. Although "Silk Stocking" retained the same Dr. Watson, Ian Hart, this time the character of Sherlock Holmes was played by Rupert Everett. In November 1903, young women are being killed in London,

neg: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Telegraph" rated Everett as number 12 on their 20 greatest Sherlock Holmes. The film was released on DVD in 2005, with an audio commentary by Cellan Jones and producer Elinor Day. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking is a British television film originally broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 26 December 2004. Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, it was written by Allan Cubitt and was a sequel to the same company's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", made for the BBC two years previously. Although

neg: Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series) Jacques Futrelle's Holmesian detective Professor Van Dusen in "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" for ITV. In 1975, he once again appeared as Holmes (albeit in a supporting role) in Gene Wilder's "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother", with Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson. The BBC searched for a new actor to play Holmes. The first person BBC television drama chief Andrew Osborn suggested was John Neville. Neville had previously assayed the role in "A Study in Terror" (1965) and Nigel Stock felt the film was quite good. Neville had prior commitments to the Nottingham Playhouse and was unable to

neg: Sherlock Holmes scripts for this series, which was also issued on CD. Coules had previously dramatised the entire Holmes canon for BBC Radio Four. The 2009 film "Sherlock Holmes" earned Robert Downey Jr. a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal of Holmes and co-starred Jude Law as Watson. Downey and Law returned for a 2011 sequel, "". In May 2018 a release date of 25 December 2020 was set for the third film in the series. Benedict Cumberbatch plays a modern version of the detective (with Martin Freeman as John Watson) in the BBC One TV series "Sherlock", which premiered on 25

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes distant descendant of Sherlock Holmes himself and has inherited his intellect in solving crimes. In 2007, the BBC released "Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars", a children's series focusing on the Baker Street Irregulars and starring Jonathan Pryce as Holmes. In 2009, the BBC began making "Sherlock", created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Three seasons of three 90-minute episodes each were broadcast in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock and Martin Freeman as John. Moriarty appears as a recurring villain. A special episode, "The Abominable Bride", was broadcast in January 2016, with a limited

neg: Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes is a television crime drama series created by David Pirie, and co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, a PBS station. Six episodes were made and were first broadcast on BBC Two, the first two on 4 and 5 January 2000, and the other four from 4 September to 2 October 2001. The series follows Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's time as a general practitioner in Southsea, solving mysteries with the help of his mentor, Dr Joseph Bell, who is based in Edinburgh. The series

neg: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler." Many of the stories from the collection were included as episodes in the Granada Television series, "Sherlock Holmes" which ran from 1984 until 1994. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1990–1991, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. Bert Coules was the head writer, but stories were also written by Vincent McInerny and Peter Mackie, and directed by Patrick Rayner and Enyd Williams. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories

neg: Minor Sherlock Holmes characters settling on "Sherlock Holmes". The name is used of Holmes by Stamford in the 1954 radio show 'Dr Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes' as he attempts to remember Holmes' first name. He was first proposed by William S. Baring-Gould who wrote in his fictional biography "Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street" (1962) that Sherrinford was the eldest brother of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes once stated that his family were country squires, which means that the eldest brother would have to stay to manage the estate. If Mycroft were the eldest, he could not play the role he does in four stories of the

neg: Sherlock Holmes pastiches June Whitfield as Mrs. Hudson. Titles in this series included "The Case of the Clockwork Fiend", "The Mystery of the Obese Escapologist", "The Case of the Deranged Botanist", "Sherlock Holmes and the Glorious Doppelganger", "Holmes Strikes a Happy Medium" and "The Demon Cobbler of Greek Street", and usually turned out to have Holmes' mortal enemy Moriarty (Geoffrey Whitehead) behind each mystery. This series has since been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, later BBC Radio 4 Extra. Starting in 1998, U.S. radio producer Jim French was given permission from the Conan Doyle estate to produce new, original Sherlock Holmes stories for

neg: The Adventure of the Three Students South Africa for the Rhodesian Police. "The Three Students" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1993 by Denys Hawthorne (who also played Hilton Soames) as part of Bert Coules' complete radio adaptation of the canon, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson, and featuring Desmond Llewelyn as Bannister. The Adventure of the Three Students "The Adventure of the Three Students", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

neg: Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes which first circulated in 2006, retains the original 16:9 picture format. The series was produced by BBC Films, rather than the drama division. Following the conclusion of the four-episode series the decision was made not to recommission the series despite the critical acclaim for it. One BBC insider wryly commented that it was "too successful for the wrong department". Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes is a television crime drama series created by David Pirie, and co-produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston, a PBS station. Six episodes were made

neg: The Sign of the Four and play adaptations insure this book: The Sign of the Four was also adapted for radio by Bert Coules in 1989 as part of BBC Radio 4's complete audio Sherlock Holmes, with Clive Merrison as Holmes, Michael Williams as Watson, and featuring Brian Blessed as Jonathan Small. The Sign of the Four The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. "The Sign of the Four"

neg: David Ashton (actor) Times Drama Award that year, and three Sherlock Holmes adaptations: "The Naval Treaty", "Black Peter" and "The Three Garridebs" for BBC Radio 4. These were part of the complete recording of the Sherlock Holmes canon broadcast by the BBC between 1989 and 1998 and starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. Recent plays have included "The White Hart" and "Me… Dancing" for RTÉ in Dublin; "No Help When Dead" (2010) for BBC Scotland; "Maidens' Trip" (2010) for BBC Radio 4 and "The Quest of Donal Q" (2011), starring Billy Connolly and Brian Cox, for BBC Scotland and

neg: The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV serial) The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV serial) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) is a British television serial made by the BBC, produced by Barry Letts, directed by Peter Duguid and starring Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes and Terence Rigby as Doctor Watson. The serial is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The music score was composed and conducted by Carl Davis. This production of Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was the second multi-part BBC adaptation, following Peter Cushing's two-part episode for the 1968 television series. The 1982 serial was part of

neg: The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place story was adapted for the 1968 BBC series with Peter Cushing. The episode is now lost. The story was also dramatised in 1990 in Granada TV's "Sherlock Holmes", starring Jeremy Brett. Jude Law, who later played Dr. Watson in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes has a small but very important role in the episode. "Shoscombe Old Place" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1994 by as part of Bert Coules’ complete radio adaptation of the canon, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson, and featuring Nicholas Le Prevost as John Mason, Donald Pickering as Sir Robert,

neg: Young Sherlock Holmes his guide. Of the creation of the film, Columbus stated: The cast includes actors with previous associations to Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Stock, who played Professor Waxflatter, portrayed Dr. Watson alongside both Douglas Wilmer and Peter Cushing in the BBC series of the 1960s. Patrick Newell, who played Bentley Bobster, played both PC Benson in 1965's "A Study in Terror" as well as Inspector Lestrade in 1979's "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson". The movie explains where Holmes gains the attire popularly associated with him. His pipe is shown as being a Christmas present from Watson, the deerstalker hat originally belonged to

neg: Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series) release taking advantage of the digitally remastered film prints originally prepared for the BBC Two repeat run. In December 2012 the series was released on Blu-ray in Japan, in Spain in May 2013 in France in October 2013 and in the USA in September 2014. The series ran for 41 episodes as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1984–1985), "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (1986–1988), "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes" (1991–1993) and "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" (1994); 36 ran for 50 minutes, and 5 were feature-length specials. In 1992 Brett and Hardwicke appeared in a mini-episode (about ten minutes in

neg: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "This article is about the BBC Radio 4 series transmitted from 2002 to 2010. There is also a U.S. produced series, which began in 1998, that transmits under the same title and a book range from Titan Books." The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a series of radio dramas based on Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes. Written by Bert Coules as a pastiche of Conan Doyle's work, the series was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002, 2004, 2008-9 and 2010. There are sixteen episodes, all of them produced and directed by

neg: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother on April 4, 2006. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear and Leo McKern. The film was Wilder's directorial debut, from his own original script. Douglas Wilmer and Thorley Walters appear as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. Wilmer had previously appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC TV series, and Walters played Watson in three other films: "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace" (1962), "The Best House in London" (1969), and "Silver Blaze"

neg: The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother is a 1975 American musical comedy film with Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Roy Kinnear and Leo McKern. The film was Wilder's directorial debut, from his own original script. Douglas Wilmer and Thorley Walters appear as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, respectively. Wilmer had previously appeared as Sherlock Holmes in the 1960s BBC TV series, and Walters played Watson in three other films: "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace" (1962), "The Best House in London" (1969), and "Silver Blaze" (1977). In 1891, Foreign

neg: Sherlock Holmes pastiches In 1910, the French writer Arnould Galopin teamed up his detective Allan Dickson, the "Australian Sherlock Holmes" with an aging Holmes renamed "Herlokolms" who had been much impressed by the young man's early exploits in "L'Homme au Complet Gris" (The Man in Grey). Allan Dickson may have been the prototype for "Harry Dickson" (see #Successors of Sherlock Holmes, below). Another French writer, Théodore Botrel, wrote the play "Le Mystère de Kéravel" in 1932 in which Holmes, travelling incognito in Brittany, solves a murder at the request of local police, who know his true identity. He is referred to as "L'étranger"

neg: Robert Sharples his skill as a "light classics" conductor. His best-known compositions are in the field of TV theme music. Under the pseudonym 'Robert Earley' he wrote the themes for "Public Eye" and the later series of "Special Branch", and under the pseudonym 'E. Ward' he composed the theme music for the 1969 television series "Fraud Squad". Sharples' other TV credits include themes for "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes", the early 1970s Thames series "Man At The Top" and the 1975 BBC documentary series "The Explorers", as well as incidental music to "Follyfoot". He is perhaps best known as the musical director

neg: Sherlock (TV series) 12 January 2014, on BBC One, and written by Steven Moffat, directed by Nick Hurran and is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton". This case leads Sherlock into conflict with Charles Augustus Magnussen (Lars Mikkelsen), a "terrifying" villain who was introduced as an unnamed villain in episode one. Mary Morstan and Sherlock Holmes both break into Magnussen's office, where, having surprised each other, Mary shoots Sherlock. Later, Holmes deduces that Mary was formerly a secret agent, and reveals this to Watson. Holmes and Watson try to get Magnussen arrested, but their attempt fails, and

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes by the fans of BBC Sherlock. They write music about the new series during the considerably long hiatuses between seasons. Most of them are posted online, and can be found on Tumblr. "Scarlet Story", the opening theme of the NHK puppetry "Sherlock Holmes" is titled after "A Study in Scarlet". And a song titled "Agra Treasure" that is made for the show is sung in "The Adventure of the Cheerful Four", one of the episodes of the series based on "The Sign of the Four". In the episode, some of the characters are modeled after the members of the Beatles.

neg: Joseph Lidster his first play "Nice Sally" in the Off Cut Theatre Festival. From 2005 onwards, he wrote the fictional content for the Doctor Who tie-in websites including the MySpace blog for Martha Jones. In 2007, he edited the "Doctor Who" short story collection "". The following year, he wrote "Mad Martha" for the "Doctor Who" website. In 2007 and 2008 he abridged a number of "Doctor Who" and "Torchwood" novels for BBC Audiobooks, including "Sting of the Zygons", "Wooden Heart", "Another Life", "Border Princes" and "Slow Decay". He also wrote the fictional blogs of Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Molly Hooper and

neg: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom states that the first identification of Costello with the role was in Michael Pointer's "Public Life of Sherlock Holmes" published in 1975 but Pointer later realized his error and wrote to Klinger stating Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom is a 1905 American silent film directed by J. Stuart Blackton for Vitagraph Studios. It was the second film based on Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories, following the 1900 Mutoscope trick film "Sherlock Holmes Baffled", and is usually regarded as the first attempt to film a "serious" Holmes adaptation. The

neg: Michael Hardwick (writer) solve the case of the Dreyfus affair. The 1980's brought Hardwick's sequel to "The Hound of the Baskervilles" entitled "Revenge of the Hound" and published by Villard Books as well as "Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes". Michael Hardwick (writer) Michael Hardwick (1924-1991) was an English author who was best known for writing books and radio plays which featured Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Hardwick married fellow author Mollie Hardwick in 1961. Hardwick penned a dramatisation of "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" for the BBC Light Programme in 1959, which starred Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and

neg: Sherlock Holmes pastiches Ukraine, giving Arthur Conan Doyle the task to convince everyone that he was just an imaginary character. With the help of his serum, Holmes prolonged his life for several decades. In 1990s he indirectly helped Martin Mystère to capture a villain who found a formula of his serum. Leah Moore and John Reppion's "The Trial of Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and Scott Beatty's "Sherlock Holmes Year One" (2011) published by Dynamite Entertainment. Ian Edginton wrote the 2010 Wildstorm comic book limited series "Victorian Undead" which pitted Holmes against zombies. New Paradigm Studios in August 2012 debuted "Watson and Holmes" digital comic

neg: The Problem of Thor Bridge Wilson" from "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Also mentioned is the case of Isadora Persano, "who was found stark staring mad with a match box in front of him which contained a remarkable worm said to be unknown to science" and that of the cutter "Alicia". The story was adapted for the Sherlock Holmes 1968 BBC series with Peter Cushing, but the episode is now lost. The story was also dramatised in 1991 in Granada TV's series "Sherlock Holmes" starring Jeremy Brett with Daniel Massey as Neil Gibson, Celia Gregory as Maria Gibson, and Catherine Russell as Grace Dunbar.

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes of Sherlock Holmes" published in 1975 but Pointer later realized his error and wrote to Klinger stating Sherlock Holmes has also been a prolific screen character in foreign language films, such as the Russian 2013 mini-series version broadcast in November 2013. Many similar films were made in the early years of the twentieth century, most notably the 13 one- and two-reel silent films produced by the Danish Nordisk Film Company between 1908 and 1911. The only non-lost film is "Sherlock Holmes i Bondefangerkløer", produced in 1910. Holmes was originally played by Viggo Larsen. Other actors who played Holmes in those

neg: A Study in Scarlet BBC television series "Sherlock Holmes", with Peter Cushing in the lead role and Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson, which put more detail into the story, including the actor who claims the ring; the second episode of the 1979 Soviet TV adaptation, "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson" (the first episode combines the story of their meeting with "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"; the second episode adapts the actual Jefferson Hope case.); a 1983 animated version produced by Burbank Films Australia, with Peter O'Toole voicing Holmes; "A Study in Scarlet" was the first episode of the BBC's complete Sherlock Holmes on

neg: Nicholas Briggs portrayed the Dalek voice actor Peter Hawkins in the BBC docudrama "An Adventure in Space and Time", which depicted the inception of "Doctor Who". In November 2013 he also appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage "The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot". Briggs also directed, created the sound design and composed the incidental music for all three series of the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy "Nebulous", written by Graham Duff and starring Mark Gatiss. Outside the realm of science fiction, Briggs has appeared on stage at Nottingham's Theatre Royal since 1997, including a run as Sherlock Holmes in "Holmes and

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes many television incarnations of Sherlock Holmes, varying in faithfulness to the source material from direct adaptations of Holmes stories, most notably "The Hound of the Baskervilles", to new stories set in the present day and even the future. One of the earliest television appearances was the 1951 BBC mini series "Sherlock Holmes" starring Alan Wheatley as Holmes and Raymond Francis as Watson. Three years later, the first American adaptation of Holmes and Watson, "Sherlock Holmes" was produced by Sheldon Reynolds in 1954, and starred Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion-Crawford as Doctor Watson produced in Paris, France. In the

neg: The Hounds of Baskerville The Hounds of Baskerville "The Hounds of Baskerville" is the second episode of the second series of the BBC crime drama series "Sherlock", which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was first broadcast by BBC One on 8 January 2012. It was written by co-creator Mark Gatiss, who also portrays Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's brother in the series, and was directed by Paul McGuigan. The episode is a contemporary adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous works. In the episode, Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his crime-solving partner John Watson (Martin Freeman)

neg: A Scandal in Belgravia A Scandal in Belgravia "A Scandal in Belgravia" is the first episode of the second series of the BBC crime drama series "Sherlock", which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was first broadcast by BBC One on 1 January 2012. It was written by co-creator Steven Moffat, and directed by Paul McGuigan. The episode was based on "A Scandal in Bohemia", a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The episode depicts Sherlock Holmes' (Benedict Cumberbatch) confrontation with Irene Adler (Lara Pulver), a dominatrix who has compromising photographs taken with a female member of the royal family. The

neg: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes "The Cardboard Box") were adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 1991–1992 as part of Bert Coules' complete radio adaptation of the canon, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. Notable guest stars included Peter Davison as Inspector Forrester in "The Reigate Squires", and Brian Blessed as Henry Wood in "The Crooked Man". Episodes were written by Bert Coules, Gerry Jones, Denys Hawthorne, Vincent McInerney, Peter Mackie, Robert Forrest, Peter Ling, and David Ashton, and directed by Enyd Williams and Patrick Rayner. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes

neg: Sherlock Holmes (play) Ray Collins as Dr. Watson, Mary Taylor as Alice Faulkner, Brenda Forbes as Madge Larrabee, Edgar Barrier as James Larrabee, Morgan Farley as Inspector Forman, Richard Wilson as Craigin, Alfred Shirley as Bassick, William Alland as Leary, Arthur Anderson as Billy, and Eustace Wyatt as Professor Moriarty. Music was conducted by Bernard Herrmann. The 1939 film "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", the second film to star Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson, is credited as an adaptation of the play, though they bear little resemblance. In 1953, BBC Home Service dramatized the play with Carleton Hobbs as

neg: The Red-Headed League material for the play "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". The story was adapted for a TV episode of "Sherlock Holmes" starring Alan Wheatley as Holmes. The first American adaptation of the story was in the 1954 TV series starring Ronald Howard. An adaptation of "The Red-Headed League" was used for an episode of the 1965 television series "Sherlock Holmes" starring Douglas Wilmer as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson, with Toke Townley as Jabez Wilson. The tenth episode of a 1954-55 BBC radio series starring John Gielgud as Holmes and Ralph Richardson as Watson was adapted from "The Red-Headed League."

neg: Sherlock Holmes pastiches the Cambridge Apostles (Moore, Hardy, Keynes...) Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Annie Besant and of course, Aleisteir Crowley as a perfect villain. Michael Dibdin's novel "The Last Sherlock Holmes Story" (1979) confronts a somewhat psychopathic Sherlock Holmes with the crimes of Jack the Ripper, whom Holmes suspects to be none other than James Moriarty. Raymond Smullyan wrote "The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes" (1979), in which Holmes (with Watson) applies retrograde analysis to solve chess problems. The detective novelist Loren D. Estleman wrote several short stories and two novels featuring Holmes; the novels pit the detective against Count Dracula and Dr.

neg: Sherlock (TV series) It has the finesse of "Spooks" but is indisputably Sherlock Holmes. The deduction sequences are ingenious, and the plot is classic Moffat intricacy." Tom Sutcliffe for "The Independent" wrote, ""Sherlock" is a triumph, witty and knowing, without ever undercutting the flair and dazzle of the original. It understands that Holmes isn't really about plot but about charisma ... Flagrantly unfaithful to the original in some respects, "Sherlock" is wonderfully loyal to it in every way that matters." The lead actors were commended. Critic Victoria Thorpe said, "Freeman's dependable, capable Watson unlocks this modern Holmes, a man who now describes himself

neg: Canon of Sherlock Holmes events of that day. It shares the same backing for categorising as a Sherlock Holmes story as "The Story of the Lost Special", and appears in French anthologies. The story was adapted for BBC Radio 4 in 2009 as "The Thirteen Watches", in an episode from "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The number of watches was changed because the new title came from a reference (in the Holmes story "The Noble Bachelor") to Holmes' involvement with the watches incident. When searching through Conan Doyle’s papers, Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of his, came across a plan for an unwritten story.

neg: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace released a double feature DVD including "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace" and the 1931 film "The Speckled Band", starring Raymond Massey. Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (German: Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes) is a 1962 black-and-white film directed by Terence Fisher. It was a West German-French-Italian international co-production. The film starred Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson. Curt Siodmak wrote the screenplay, based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film's plot has Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempting to recover a stolen

neg: Sherlock (TV series) in their version of Holmes' fall and Moffat added that, in that much-discussed sequence, there was still "a clue everybody's missed". BBC One premiered a seven-minute "Sherlock" mini-episode over the 2013 Christmas period entitled "Many Happy Returns". The episode is available via BBC iPlayer, BBC Red Button service, and BBC's YouTube channel, and acts as a prequel to the third series. The synopsis for the episode reads "Sherlock has been gone for two years. But someone isn't quite convinced that he's dead." The 'someone' turns out to be Anderson, the forensics technician from series 1 and 2 (who has now

neg: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans reels of the 16mm telerecording of the episode exists, although the full soundtrack survives. The 1986 film "The Twentieth Century Approaches", the fifth instalment of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson", features the story. The story was adapted for a 1988 episode of the television series "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, Edward Hardwicke as Doctor Watson and Charles Gray as Mycroft Holmes. "The Bruce-Partington Plans" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1994 by Bert Coules as part of his complete radio adaptation of the canon, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and

neg: John Woodnutt appeared in an episode of The Bill, series 7. Episode 11 as Mr Cork. Radio and television Sherlock Holmes stories in which he appeared included the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and, as the fussy banker Mr. Merryweather, in the series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with Jeremy Brett in the episode entitled "The Red Headed League". He also made an appearance in the 1965 Douglas Wilmer Sherlock Holmes series on the BBC. His film credits included roles in "The Scarlet Blade" (1963), "Man in the Middle" (1964), "All Neat in Black Stockings" (1968), "Connecting

neg: David Pirie "The Woman in White" into "The Woman in White" (BBC, 1997). The two part film was described by "The Observer" as "simply the best TV drama has to offer." In 2018 he co-exec produced the BBC's five hour production of the same novel, starring Jessie Buckley. He also took a new approach to Sherlock Holmes both in TV and later in novels with the 'Murder Rooms' cycle, of which Publisher's Weekly wrote "This brilliant debut mystery from British screenwriter Pirie offers a novel twist on the Sherlock Holmes pastiche". It first saw life as a two episode pilot "Murder Rooms"

neg: The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton of her famous husband, but Holmes signals silence with a finger to his lips. The story, along with "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", "The Adventure of the Empty House", and "The Red-Headed League", provided the source material for the play "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". The story was faithfully adapted in the 1965 BBC series "Sherlock Holmes" with Douglas Wilmer as Holmes, and Barry Jones as Milverton. The only difference from the story is the identity of Milverton's killer. "Charles Augustus Milverton" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1993 by Bert Coules as part of his complete radio

neg: The Baker Street Boys The Baker Street Boys The Baker Street Boys is a British television series made by the BBC and first shown in 1983. The series recounts the adventures of a gang of street urchins living in Victorian London who assist the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes in solving crimes and find themselves tackling cases of their own. Anthony Read planned out the show's format. Read had previously been a script editor and writer on the 1965 "Sherlock Holmes" series starring Douglas Wilmer. He claimed to have long wondered what the Irregulars got up to when not in the service of Sherlock Holmes

neg: Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series) detective. His portrayal remains very popular and is accepted by some as the definitive on-screen version of Sherlock Holmes. In addition, Holmes's faithful friend and companion Dr. Watson is portrayed as the kind of thoroughly competent sidekick that Holmes would want. Initially, Watson was portrayed by David Burke (who had earlier played the villain in an adaptation of "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet" for the 1965 BBC series starring Douglas Wilmer and Nigel Stock). Burke appeared in the first year of the "Adventures" series before leaving to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was replaced by Edward Hardwicke, who

neg: Tim Pigott-Smith many productions on BBC Radio 4. During the making of "The Jewel in the Crown", Pigott-Smith wrote a diary on his impressions of India. This was published together with an anthology of poetry and prose under the title "Out of India". He wrote two children's books in the series "The Baker Street Mysteries", featuring the exploits of Sherlock Holmes' Baker Street Irregulars – "The Dragon Tattoo" (2008) and "Shadow of Evil" (2009). He played Holmes in a BBC Radio adaptation of "The Valley of Fear". Pigott-Smith died suddenly on 7 April 2017, aged 70. He had been scheduled to appear

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes Orson Welles as Professor Moriarty in "The Adventure of the Final Problem". Carleton Hobbs portrayed Holmes in a series of BBC radio broadcasts that ran from 1952 to 1969, with Norman Shelley playing Watson. Many of these were broadcast on Children's Hour. Of the many actors who have portrayed Holmes and Watson for the BBC, the Hobbs and Shelley duo is the longest running. There have been many other radio adaptations (over 750 in English), including a more recent BBC Radio 4 run featuring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. Together, the two actors completed radio adaptations

neg: Dr. Watson Alan Cox played a teenage Watson in the 1985 film "Young Sherlock Holmes", narrated by Michael Hordern as an older Watson. Ian Hart portrayed a young, capable, and fit Watson twice for BBC Television, once opposite Richard Roxburgh as Holmes (in a 2002 adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles") and for a second time opposite Rupert Everett as the Great Detective in the new story "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking" (2004). In the Soviet Sherlock Holmes film series, directed by Igor Maslennikov, Dr Watson was played by Vitaly Solomin. He is portrayed as a brave

neg: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (German: Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes) is a 1962 black-and-white film directed by Terence Fisher. It was a West German-French-Italian international co-production. The film starred Christopher Lee as Sherlock Holmes and Thorley Walters as Dr. Watson. Curt Siodmak wrote the screenplay, based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film's plot has Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempting to recover a stolen necklace, formerly worn by Cleopatra, from Professor Moriarty. Holmes tries to convince the police that the professor is a criminal, but they

neg: A Study in Pink A Study in Pink "A Study in Pink" is the first episode of the television series "Sherlock" and first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 25 July 2010. It introduces the main characters and resolves a murder mystery. It is loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel, "A Study in Scarlet". The episode was written by Steven Moffat, who co-created the series. It was originally filmed as a 60-minute pilot for "Sherlock", directed by Coky Giedroyc. However, the BBC decided not to transmit the pilot, but instead commissioned a series of three 90-minute episodes. The story was

neg: The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV serial) to put the tall, pop-eyed, mad-voiced Baker into the Holmesian cape and hat", describing him as "a predictably larger-than-life Holmes". The serial was released in Australia on 20/08/2014 by Madman Entertainment. Special features include a commentary by Tom Baker. The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV serial) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) is a British television serial made by the BBC, produced by Barry Letts, directed by Peter Duguid and starring Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes and Terence Rigby as Doctor Watson. The serial is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The music

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes out to have Holmes' mortal enemy Moriarty (Geoffrey Whitehead) behind each mystery. This series has since been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7. Starting in 1998, U.S. radio producer Jim French was given permission from the Conan Doyle estate to produce new, original Sherlock Holmes stories for radio in North America. These are presented within the Imagination Theater program on radio stations and XM satellite radio. The new stories are also broadcast under the banner "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". John Gilbert played Holmes until 2000, and subsequently by John Patrick Lowrie. Watson is played in all shows by Lawrence

neg: Joe Gentile characters such as Sherlock Holmes. All were published by Moonstone Books. He wrote an original graphic novel The Mysterious Traveler with art by Trevor Von Eeden, and two Sherlock Holmes comic book storylines in "The Scorned Mistress" Sherlock Holmes Mysteries #1, and followed it with a "Sherlock Holmes and The Clown Prince of London" with interior art by Rich Gulik and cover art by Drew Tucker. In addition to Sherlock Holmes, he has also written for Buckaroo Banzai including "Return of the Screw", a three-issue story arc. Gentile released his prose fiction short story, "The Shrug of Atlas", in Kolchak:

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes to Holmes. It was announced that Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly will star in a comedy titled "Holmes & Watson", with Ferrell as Holmes and Reilly as Watson. In January 2004, the BBC posted five new Sherlock Holmes short stories on their "Cult" website, along with RealAudio files of the stories, as read by Andrew Sachs and Hannah Gordon. The audio productions were done in association with BBC 7, but are no longer available. The texts of all five short stories are still posted, with accompanying illustrations and illustration galleries, as well as an edited transcript of an interview

neg: Sherlock Holmes pastiches short stories that were published under the title "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes" in 1954. Using his alternate name of H.F. Heard, Gerald Heard wrote three novels about a reclusive beekeeper in the English countryside who goes by the name of Mycroft; he's clearly intended to be Sherlock Holmes, but the books were written before the Doyle estate gave permission for other writers to use the name. The three stories are "A Taste for Honey", "Reply Paid" and "The Notched Hairpin". "A Taste for Honey" was adapted for American TV in 1955 as "Sting of Death," with Boris Karloff as

neg: Yasmine Akram for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2013 she co-wrote and co-presented BBC Radio 4's "Irish Micks and Legends" with Aisling Bea, with whom she had previously worked on the Channel 4 sketch comedy "LOL". In 2014, she portrayed Janine Hawkins opposite Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes in two episodes of the third series of "Sherlock". She reprised the role in the 2016 special, "The Abominable Bride"; however her name in this was Janine Donlevy. In December 2014 Akram appeared as a panellist in "Never Mind the Buzzcocks". In October 2015 she appeared as a panellist in BBC Radio 4's "The News

neg: Sherlock (TV series) Sherlock (TV series) Sherlock is a British crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. Thirteen episodes have been produced, with four three-part series airing from 2010 to 2017, and a special episode that aired on 1 January 2016. The series is set in the present day, while the one-off special features a Victorian period fantasy resembling the original Holmes stories. "Sherlock" is produced by the British network BBC, along with Hartswood Films,

neg: Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes Doyle", also by David Pirie.) David Pirie also wrote three novels related to the series: "The Patient's Eyes", "The Night Calls" and "The Dark Water". The series was filmed in Scotland and Cromer, Norfolk. Ian Richardson had earlier played Sherlock Holmes in television adaptations of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Sign of Four". The pilot, also sometimes referred to as a "Christmas Special", was first broadcast in two parts on BBC Two. On 24 March 2003 the pilot was released on a DVD on which the two parts were edited into a single 100-minute film, removing more than

neg: Sherlock (TV series) airing on BBC One and PBS on 1 January 2017 and concluded on 15 January 2017. The first episode, "A Study in Pink", loosely based upon the first Sherlock Holmes novel "A Study in Scarlet", was written by Moffat and directed by Paul McGuigan. The story depicts the introduction of Sherlock to John, and them entering a flatshare at Baker Street in London, and then their investigation into a series of deaths, initially believed to be suicides. Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older brother, played by Mark Gatiss, also appears for the first time. The episode was first broadcast simultaneously on BBC

neg: The Adventure of the Second Stain of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (again listed as one of the three most prominent agents in London), set seven years later. The story was adapted for a 1951 TV episode of "Sherlock Holmes", starring Alan Wheatley as Holmes. The story was adapted for the 1968 BBC series with Peter Cushing. The episode is now lost. The story was adapted in the Granada Television series "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", starring Jeremy Brett, in 1986. The story was also adapted in the Soviet (1986) TV film "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson — The Twentieth Century Approaches" "The Second Stain" was dramatised

neg: The Masks of Death Holmes, which would be Cushing's third take on the Doyle tale after the 1959 Hammer production and the two-part production for the 1968 television series, and feature a stop-motion dog created by Ray Harryhausen. While funding for the proposed film collapsed, it led to Francis discussing an original tale with writer Anthony Hinds. This is Peter Cushing's final portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. He first donned Holmes' deerstalker in Hammer's "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959). Later, he took over from Douglas Wilmer in the BBC television series "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes" in the late 1960s. Cushing considered Sherlock

neg: The Man with the Twisted Lip of their "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" television series. "The Man with the Twisted Lip" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1990 as part of Bert Coules' complete radio adaptation of the canon, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. The 2014 "Sherlock" episode "His Last Vow" begins with Sherlock being found in a drug den by John, reminiscent of the scene in the opium den from this story. The Man with the Twisted Lip "The Man with the Twisted Lip", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan

neg: Sherlock Holmes Holmes was inspired by the real-life figure of Joseph Bell, a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, whom Conan Doyle met in 1877 and had worked for as a clerk. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing broad conclusions from minute observations. However, he later wrote to Conan Doyle: "You are yourself Sherlock Holmes and well you know it". Sir Henry Littlejohn, Chair of Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, is also cited as an inspiration for Holmes. Littlejohn, who was also Police Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health in Edinburgh, provided Conan Doyle with a

neg: Minor Sherlock Holmes characters a far stronger resemblance to the dog in "A Study in Scarlet" upon which Holmes tests out the murderer's poison pills (and in so doing euthanises the hound.) In the BBC series "Sherlock", in the first episode of the fourth season titled The Six Thatchers, Sherlock Holmes requires the services of a bloodhound named Toby. Wiggins is a street urchin in London and head of the Baker Street Irregulars. He has no first name in the stories. His first appearance is in "A Study in Scarlet" (1886). The film "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes", directed by Billy Wilder, features

neg: Canon of Sherlock Holmes Jack Tracy; "The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", edited by Peter Haining; "The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes", edited by Richard Lancelyn Green; and the final volume of Leslie S. Klinger's "Sherlock Holmes Reference Library" titled "The Apocrypha of Sherlock Holmes". These works, each with slightly different contents, discussed several titles and their place in the canon. In addition to the canon, Conan Doyle wrote (occasionally with a co-writer) a number of vignettes, play adaptations and essays involving Holmes, and two short stories in which Holmes makes a possible cameo appearance. Most were published in various places during his lifetime; another has

neg: The Blind Banker The Blind Banker "The Blind Banker" is the second episode of the television series "Sherlock," first broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD on 1 August 2010. It was written by Stephen Thompson and directed by Euros Lyn. "Sherlock" is a loose adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes" stories, taking place in the modern day. "The Blind Banker" follows Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) and John Watson (Martin Freeman) as they investigate a series of ciphers representing numbers in an ancient Chinese numeral system which have been left by a Chinese smuggling ring who seem intent on killing to retrieve an

neg: Eric Porter as Fagin in the 1985 BBC version of "Oliver Twist"; as Thomas Danforth in the 1980 BBC production of "The Crucible"; and as Professor Moriarty opposite Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in Granada Television's "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" stories "The Red-Headed League" and "The Final Problem" (both 1985). He also played Polonius in a 1980 television production of "Hamlet", made as part of the BBC Shakespeare series, and starring Derek Jacobi in the title role. Porter continued to act on stage, winning the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor in 1988 for his role in "Cat on a

neg: A Scandal in Belgravia directing respectively. In May 2013, the episode won the Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. A Scandal in Belgravia "A Scandal in Belgravia" is the first episode of the second series of the BBC crime drama series "Sherlock", which follows the modern-day adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and was first broadcast by BBC One on 1 January 2012. It was written by co-creator Steven Moffat, and directed by Paul McGuigan. The episode was based on "A Scandal in Bohemia", a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The episode depicts Sherlock Holmes' (Benedict Cumberbatch) confrontation with Irene Adler

neg: The Empty Hearse stated that the episode was "well worth the [two-year-long hiatus]" and praised it as a "well-acted, well-produced, well-written, and extremely engrossing drama." David Mather, who runs fan site Sherlockology, told BBC Radio 5 Live's Victoria Derbyshire that he had been inundated with mixed responses from fans. The Empty Hearse "The Empty Hearse" is the first episode of the third series of the BBC television series "Sherlock". It was written by Mark Gatiss and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Martin Freeman as Dr John Watson, and Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes. It also marks the first appearance of Amanda Abbington

neg: Sherlock Holmes in New York Sherlock Holmes in New York Sherlock Holmes in New York is a 1976 American made-for-television mystery film about Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, played by Roger Moore and Patrick Macnee respectively. Despite the film's title the production was shot entirely in Southern California at the 20th Century-Fox lot in West Los Angeles, with some scenes filmed at the Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica. The great detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusted companion Dr. John Watson travel to New York City to investigate a recent threat made by Professor Moriarty. During their investigation, Holmes and Watson are reunited with their

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes Albert. Scripts are by Jim French, M. J. Elliott, Matthew Booth, John Hall, Gareth Tilley, J R Campbell and Lawrence Albert. In 2005, with adaptations written by M. J. Elliott, French and his company began a new series based on Conan Doyle's original tales called "The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." Many episodes are available on CD as well as downloadable from the Imagination Theater website. The actor most associated with Holmes on stage was William Gillette, who wrote, directed, and starred in a popular play entitled "Sherlock Holmes" in seven different productions on Broadway from 1899 (filmed in 1916),

neg: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Patrick Rayner of BBC Scotland. Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, having portrayed the detective in a complete canonical run for Radio 4 (the only actor to successfully do so to date). Andrew Sachs appears as Dr. Watson, replacing Michael Williams after Williams died following the Radio 4 run of Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Each of the stories is based on a throwaway reference from an actual Conan Doyle short story or novel. The first two series are repeated regularly on BBC Radio 4 Extra. The 2010 story "The Marlbourne Point Mystery" brings to seventy-five the number of times Clive Merrison has

neg: Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes Conway played Sherlock Holmes opposite Nigel Bruce for one season. After a change of networks, there were two more pairings: John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Watson in 1947–1948 and Stanley and "George Spelvin" in 1948–1949. Both Stanley and Conway emulated Rathbone when performing Holmes to aid in continuity for the audience. John Gielgud played Holmes for BBC radio in the 1950s, with Ralph Richardson as Watson. Gielgud's brother, Val Gielgud, appeared in "The Bruce-Partington Plans", perhaps inevitably, as Mycroft Holmes. As this series was co-produced by the American Broadcasting Company, known American actors also appeared, such as

neg: Sherlock: Case of Evil early practitioner of autopsies, for the first time. Together, they start an investigation into the murder of several crime lords and become convinced that Moriarty is alive and behind a plot to organize drug dealing. Given that Moriarty is supposedly dead, Holmes finds it hard to convince Inspector Lestrade (Nicholas Gecks) of this claim. Holmes' investigation leads him to a prostitute (Gabrielle Anwar), who posed as a rich woman to lure Holmes into the plot. Richard E. Grant also appears as Holmes' brother, Mycroft, who was addicted to opium by Moriarty when Sherlock was young. Laura Fries of "Variety" wrote

neg: The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes Greene relates in "John Dickson Carr: The Man Who Explained Miracles". There is some doubt about who wrote what—though at times Carr's highly recognisable style breaks through the convention of pastiching the original Conan Doyle stories. In any case, the book published in 1954 was not a great success at the time, though collectors take an interest in it, and the experiment of writing more new Sherlock Holmes exploits was not repeated by these two writers. In 1963 John Murray published two paperback volumes which divided the stories into "The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes" by Adrian Conan Doyle and "More