Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke returned as Holmes and Watson for
the sixth and penultimate season of
Granada's acclaimed period drama.
Conan Doyle's final short detective
stories were published between 1921
and 1927 as The Case Book, but only
one mystery here - The Last Vampyre
(based on The Adventure of the Sussex
Vampire) - was from that volume.
Episode one was adapted from The
Adventure of Charles Augustus
Milverton, derived from The Return
of Sherlock Holmes (issued in 1904),
whilst the third case was based on
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,
released as part of The Adventures
collection in 1892.
A repeat run of these three feature-length thrillers began on ITV4
today - they starred Geoffrey Beevers, and a total of seventeen
Doctor Who cast and crew connections:
- Big Finish actor Nickolas Grace (Bertrand here; Oberstein in Hands of a Murderer) made a brief TV appearance as Albert Einstein in Death is the Only Answer, and voiced Loozly for Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (2002), Straxus for Human Resources (2007), Sisters of the Flame and The Vengeance of Morbius (both 2008), Balancer/Viktor Skaarsgard for Equilibrium (2015), Goole for The Gallery of Ghouls (2016), Professor Grove for Shadow Planet and World Apart, Chevalier D'Eon for Sword of the Chevalier (all 2017), Kellman for Return of the Cybermen (2021), Eldridge Brinkwood for The Empty Man (2023), and Secretary Pym for The Eternity Club (2024)
- for Colin Jeavons see The Norwood Builder
- David Mallinson (Dorking) voiced Brodlik for Creatures of Beauty (2003)
- Alan Rothwell (Tronson) voiced Byzar Janto for The Twilight Kingdom (2004)
- Tom Lucy was also stunt co-ordinator on sixteen episodes (from Smith and Jones to The Next Doctor) and Torchwood
- Dorothy Ford (stunt performer) was Double on The Wheel in Space (6)
- Roy [Anthony] Marsden (Stockton, pictured right) was [Bryan] Stoker in Smith and Jones, and voiced Todd Hulbert for Human Resources (2007)
- Keith Barron (Ferguson) was Captain Straker in Enlightenment, and voiced Isaac Barclay for Plague of the Daleks (2009), and Lord Tulip for The Bad Penny (2018)
- [William] Maurice Denham (Merridew here; Amberley in The Retired Colourman; Coram for The Golden Prince-Nez, 1993) was Azmael in The Twin Dilemma, then voiced the President for The Paradise of Death
- Juliet Aubrey (Dolores here; the Seamstress for The Fiends of New York City) voiced Vulpina for Voyage to Venus (2012), Esther Malkin for The Wrong Woman (2021), Prodigal for The Auton Infinity (2022), Zyla Kalstein for Revolution in Space, and Lina Kalpar for Invasion of the Body Stealers (both 2024)
- Richard Dempsey (Jack) was Tsar Nicholas II in The Power of the Doctor
- Elizabeth [Jean] Spriggs [born Williams] (Mrs. Mason) was Tabby in Paradise Towers
- Billy Horrigan was also a stuntman on (episode 1 of) Terror of the Autons and The Masque of Mandragora (1), and had uncredited roles in Spearhead from Space (4), Inferno (1), The Mind of Evil, The Curse of Peladon (4), and The Green Death (1)
- [Hugh Valentine] Simon Williams (St. Simon) was Group Captain Ian Gilmore in Remembrance of the Daleks - a role he reprised for Big Finish's Counter Measures, 1963: The Assassination Games (2013), The Resinger Process (2014) and The Split Infinitive (2019) - he also voiced Paul Addison and Shara for Nekromanteia (2003), Lord Ruthven for The Ruthven Inheritance (2011), and the Guardian for The Guardians of Prophecy (2012)
- Anna Calder Marshall (Lady Helena/Agnes) voiced Mathilda Pierce for The Scream of the Shalka
- Joanna McCallum (Flora here; Mrs. Sinden for The Demented Client) voiced the Bursar for Night Thoughts (2006)
- production manager Liam Foster began his career as AFM on Spearhead from Space
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