Doctor Who Vs. Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years

London-born Christopher Lee (1922-
2015) appeared opposite Peter 
Cushing in Hammer's The Hound 
of the Baskervilles in 1959, but he
first portrayed the Great Detective
in the European television movie,
The Deadly Necklace (1962). Lee
returned to the role thirty years
later for two TV mysteries, shot
back-to-back in 1991 by Harmony
Gold Productions. He also played
Mycroft Holmes in The Private 
Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
 Patrick Macnee reprised the role
of Dr. Watson here (first realised
for Sherlock Holmes in New York
in 1976). then depicted Holmes
for The Hound of London (1993).
Both films were shown again on the True Entertainment channel today,
and featured and twelve Doctor Who cast connections:

The Leading Lady (1991)

• John Bennett (Freud) was General Finch in Invasion of the Dinosaurs, and Li H'sen Chang in The Talons of Weng-Chiang
• Nicholas Gecks (Simpson-Makepeace here; Wilder in The Priory School; Lestrade in Sherlock) was Albert Dumfries in The Sound of Drums
• James Bree (Dietrich here; Dr. Barnicot in The Six Napoleons; Butler in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson: The Case of the Magruder's Murder; Coroner in The Empty House; Barrister in Without a Clue) was the Security Chief in The War Games, Nefred in Full Circle, the Keeper of the Matrix in The Ultimate Foe, and the Lama in Downtime
• Robert Rietty (Hoffman) voiced Bedloe for Death Comes to Time
• Tom Chadbon (Zygovich here; Inspector Hawkins in The Red Circle and The Cardboard Box) was Duggan in City of Death, Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet, then voiced Gordon for Big Finish's No More Lies (2007), and Embery for The Paradox Planet and Legacy of Death (both 2016)
• Cyril Shaps (Emperor here; Orlov in The Baker Street Boys; Smoot in Murder Rooms) was John Viner in The Tomb of the Cybermen, Dr. Lennox in The Ambassadors of Death, Professor Herbert Clegg in Planet of the Spiders, and the Archimandrite in The Androids of Tara
• Michael McStay (Schmidt) was Derek Moberley in The Seeds of Doom
• Gertan Klauber (Doorman here; Man in The Boscombe Valley Mystery; the Pasha in The Seven Per-cent Solution) was the Galley Master in (episode 2 of) The Romans, and Ola in The Macra Terror

Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)

• Richard [Andrew Palethorpe] Todd (Roberts) was Sanders in Kinda
• Neil McCarthy (Morrison) was Barnham in The Mind of Evil, and Thawn in The Power of Kroll
• Margaret John (Mrs. Hudson here) was Megan Jones in Fury from the Deep, and Grandma Connolly in The Idiot's Lantern
• Jerome Willis (Mycroft Holmes) was [Jocelyn] Stevens in The Green Death and Global Conspiracy?