Doctor Who Vs. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)

This neglected treatment of Conan Doyle's

best loved and most staged novel originally

 aired on BBC1 in October 1982, and was

adapted by Alexander Baron - he had also dramatised The Musgrave Ritual and

Wisteria Lodge in 1968, then Granada's

A Scandal in Bohemia in 1984). 

Never released on video or DVD and rarely
repeated, this drama was quite faithful to

the book, and only became available to

purchase when the sadly short-lived BBC 

Store launched in late 2015.

The production was the first TV vehicle for Tom Baker after vacating the TARDIS,

and his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes is

reminiscent of the Doctor (recalling Baker's

pseudo-Holmesian role in The Talons of Weng-Chiang). Baker is only

the third actor to play both the Time Lord and the Great Detective,

after Peter Cushing and Richard Hurndall. Baker would reprise

Holmes for the stage in The Mask of Moriarty in 1985. Dr. Watson was

depicted here by Terence Rigby, who later appeared in The Sign of Four.

The four-part mystery was recorded at BBC Birmingham and filmed on

location in its Dartmoor setting. Produced by Barry Letts and script

edited by Terrance Dicks, the serial also featured Caroline John,

and fourteen other Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Nicholas [Robin Frank] Woodeson (Sir Henry) voiced the Clock- smith for Big Finish's Doom Coalition 3 (2016), and the titular role for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• [Frank] Morris Perry (Barrymore) was Captain Dent in Colony in Space
• Gillian [Mary] Martell (Mrs Barrymore) and Terry [Philip Julian] Forrestal (Sir Hugo here; stuntman on Without a Clue) both appeared in K9 and Company, as Lilly Gregson and Tractor Driver
• Michael [John] Goldie (Selden here; PC Murcher in A Study in Scarlet; Artist in The Final Problem, 1985) was Craddock in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and Elton Laleham in The Wheel in Space
• William [Arthur] Squire (Frankland) was the Shadow in The Armageddon Factor
• Hubert [Thomas Morgan] Rees (DI Lestrade here; Dr. Watson in The Baker Street Boys) was the Chief Engineer in Fury from the Deep, Captain Ransom in The War Games, and John Stevenson in The Seeds of Doom
• Peter Wragg was the VFX designer on The Visitation too
• costume designer Joyce Hawkins had worked with Baker on Horror of Fang Rock [also produced at Pebble Mill]
• Norma Flint was production assistant on Warriors of the Deep too
• David Hughes was also studio sound assistant on The War Machines, Fury from the Deep, The Space Pirates (6), Colony in Space and Horror of Fang Rock
• Mark Kershaw (vision mixer), Sue Hedden (AFM) and Susie Bancroft (make-up artist) all worked on K9 & Company too
• scenic painter Brian Bishop began his career as an uncredited backdrop painter on (episode 1 of) The Aztecs