Doctor Who Vs. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)

This British TV production

premiered on the American

HBO channel in late 1983,

and starred Ian Richardson

(1934-2007) and Donald

Churchill (1930-1991)

as Sherlock Holmes and

Dr. Watson.

Edinburgh-born Richardson
would later portray Dr. Joseph
Bell, Conan Doyle's inspiration
for Holmes.

Producer Sy Weintraub had
obtained the rights to film
six of Doyle's works only to 

discover that Granada TV had 

also been permitted to produce 

their own versions. A subsequent court case found in Weintraub's favour
but he decided to abandon plans to adapt further stories after the sequel,
The Sign of Four (1984).

Shown again on the Sony Movies channel today, the thriller featured 

Martin Shaw (Sir Henry), Denholm Elliott (Dr. Mortimer), Ronald Lacey 

(Lestrade), Edward Judd (Barrymore), Nicholas Clay (Stapleton), and 

eight Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Brian Blessed (Lyons here; Small for The Sign of Four, 1989; Wood for The Crooked Man, 1992) was King Yrcanos in Mindwarp
• Glynis [born van der Riet] Barber (Beryl here; Meredith and Sophie in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson) voiced Kathy Blake for Big Finish's The Sinestran Kill (2019)
• Eleanor Bron (Mrs. Barrymore here; Mrs. Bessmer in The Madness of Colonel Warburton, 2002) was an Art Lover in City of Death, Kara [Seddle] in Revelation of the Daleks, then voiced Ileana De Santos for Loups-Garoux (2001)
• Peter Rutherford (Selden) made his TV debut as Roth in The Sontaran Experiment
• Kerry Shale (voice of Sir Henry here; Leverton in The Red Circle; voice of Holmes for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments) was Dr. Renfrew in Day of the Moon
• Patrick Heigham (boom operator here and The Sign of Four) was grams operator on The Mind Robber
• Alan Whibley (SFX supervisor here and The Sign of Four) began his career as an assistant on (episode 1 of) The Dominators 
• Pamela Davies also worked on continuity for both Dalek films