The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
1971 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom
This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown to modern audiences, although all of the detectives portrayed had appeared in popular ongoing series of short stories or novels. "Rivals" featured the only dramatizations to date of such period characters as Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine" and W. H. Hodgson's "Carnacki The Ghost Finder". Production values were high, although the limitations of early '70's video technology are painfully obvious. The casts included the cream of British television's character actors, featuring a few faces that will be recognizable to American audiences.
Direction Jonathan Alwyn · Alan Cooke · Jim Goddard · Derek Bennett · Reginald Collin · Graham Evans · Bill Bain · Piers Haggard · Kim Mills · Mike Vardy · Peter Duguid · Don Leaver · Dennis Vance
Cast Peter Barkworth · Peter Vaughan · Douglas Wilmer · Ronald Hines · Cyd Hayman · Derek Smith · Kenneth Colley · Petronella Barker · John Nettleton · Charles Lloyd Pack · James Cairncross · Paul Whitsun-Jones · Robert Hartley · Edward Dentith · Clifford Parrish · Michael Cashman
Soundtrack Robert Sharples
Screenplay Alexander Baron · Robert Barr · Julian Bond · Guy Boothby · Ernest Bramah · Reginald Collin · Alan Cooke · Bill Craig · Paul Erickson · Robert Eustace · Austin Freeman · Jacques Futrelle · George Griffith · Balduin Groller · William Hope Hodgson · Owen Holder · Stuart Hood · Gerald Kelsey · Philip Mackie · Ian Kennedy Martin · L.T. Meade · Michael Meyer · Arthur Morrison · E. Phillips Oppenheim · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · Max Pemberton · Palle Rosenkrantz · Anthony Skene
Original title The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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