Sherlock Holmes is the most prolific fictional character in
popular culture. In 2014, BBC Four's Time Shift series broad
-cast its own examination of
the key actors who have port-
rayed the Great Detective on
stage, screen and television
since 1900.
There have been at least twenty
-five adaptations of The Hound
of the Baskervilles for cinema,
TV, radio, and theatre, including
an animated version - the story
even inspired a Bollywood
production.
Conan Doyle's most renowned
novel was published in 1902.
Hammer Films made the first
colour rendition in 1959, and Holmes was depicted by Peter Wilton
Cushing (1913-1994), but the film was not a box office success.
Cushing returned to the role in 1968 (when he replaced Douglas
Wilmer in the BBC's Sherlock Holmes TV series), then in 1984 for the
film, The Masks of Death. Christopher Lee (1922-2015), another iconic
figure from the Hammer stable, appeared here too (as Sir Henry), and
would later play both Holmes brothers - Sherlock (in 1962, 1991 and
1992) and Mycroft (for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes in 1970).
Shown on Flm4 today, this supernatural mystery featured five Doctor
Who cast connections:
- Andre Morell [born Cecil Mesritz] (Dr. Watson) was Marshal Gaspard de Saux Tavannes in The Massacre
- Francis [Marie] de Wolff (Dr. Mortimer here; Dr. Roylott for The Speckled Band, 1948) was Vasor in (episode 4 of) The Keys of Marinus, and Agamemnon in The Myth Makers
- [Peter] Ewen Solon (Stapleton) was Chal in The Savages, and Vishinsky in Planet of Evil
- [Stanley] Michael Hawkins (Caphill) and [George] Michael Mulcaster (Seldon) both appeared in Frontier in Space - as General Williams and Prisoner respectively, the latter was also the Old Duke in The Masque of Mandragora (1)
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