Doctor Who Vs. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

Tiger Aspect's sequel to 2002's

The Hound of the Baskervilles

was a brand new story (originally

titled The Deadly Season) written

for BBC1 by Allan Cubitt, set in

the foggy London of 1903, four-

teen years after the events in

Devonshire.

The case was first shown on

Boxing Day 2004 - the Great

Detective was now portrayed

by Rupert Everett. Ian Hart

reprised the role of Watson,

and Neil Dudgeon played

Lestrade. Hart starred as

Conan Doyle that year, in

Finding Neverland. The dark

mystery featured Michael Fassbender, Jonathan Hyde and fifteen

Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Helen [Elizabeth] McCrory (Mrs. Vandeleur) was Rosana Calvierri in The Vampires of Venice (in The Hound of the Baskervilles novel, Holmes exposed the Stapletons, in reality a married couple who fled to England and adopted the name Vandeleur)
• Guy Henry (Bilney here; Sherlock in Young Sherlock) voiced Director Ikron for Big Finish's Infamy of the Zaross (2017)
• Christine [Mary] Kavanagh (Lady Helhoughton) was Aram in Timelash, then voiced Patience for Cold Fusion (2016), Dora Muse for Muse of Fire (2018), and Magog and Juno for The Iron Legion (2019)
• Andrew Wisher (Constable) was the Ghost in Reeltime's Daemos Rising, and voiced Armstrong for Nowhere Place, Reston for Purity (both 2006), and Malcolm Glass for Human Resources (2007)
• Julian [Neil Rohan] Wadham (Massingham) voiced Augustus Scullop for The Fourth Wall (2012), Joseph Holman for The Darkness of Glass (2015) and The Crowmarsh Experiment (2018), and Judge Perigord Trent for The Doomsday Contract (2021)
• Stewart [John Llewellyn] Bevan (Proprietor) was Professor Clifford Jones in The Green Death, Global Conspiracy and Jo Grant Returns, then voiced BOSS for The Green Life (2019)
• Anthony Cozens (Constable here; Geek in A Scandal in Belgravia) was the Concierge in The Husbands of River Song
• Max Harvey (MC) was Cardinal Zorac in Arc of Infinity
• Greg Bennett (Constable here; Driver in A Scandal in Belgravia) was a Sycorax Warrior and UNIT Soldier in The Christmas Invasion, and Guest in The Lazarus Experiment
• Derek Lea was also a stuntman on Dalek, Bad Wolf, The Parting of the Ways, The Age of Steel and Partners in Crime
• sound mixer Richard Manton worked on the film sound for The Daemons and The Mutants
• Jason Gill was also costume assistant on fourteen instalments (from The Christmas Invasion to The Wedding of River Song), Space and Time, then costume designer on Death is the Only Answer
• title designer Peter Anderson was the animation director on eight episodes (from Asylum of the Daleks to The Rings of Akhaten)
• for Karen Jones (script supervisor) and Julie Scott (production executive) see The Hound of the Baskervilles