![]() You see, when Sy Weintraub was planning the films, he was unaware that the copyright on the Holmes stories was about to expire in England and he had to go through a great deal of legal negotiations with the Conan Doyle estate in order to gain permission to use them. In an interview with Scarlet Street, Ian Richardson explained: A proposed third film, Hands of a Murderer (originally entitled The Prince of Crime ) was eventually made with Edward Woodward as Sherlock Holmes and John Hillerman as Dr. Charles Edward Pogue was enlisted to pen the screenplays but only The Sign of the Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles were ultimately filmed before Granada Television's Sherlock Holmes series premiered in 1984. ![]() In 1982, American producer Sy Weintraub partnered with English producer Otto Plaschkes to make six television films of Sherlock Holmes stories. ![]() It is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. ![]() ![]() Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles ) is a 1983 British made-for-television mystery thriller film directed by Douglas Hickox, starring Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Churchill as Dr. ![]()
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