Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes
[9] A short-lived half-page Sherlock Holmes comic strip appeared daily and Sunday in the 1950s, written by radio scriptwriter Edith Meiser and drawn by Frank Giacoia.
Despite the character's near-ubiquitous presence in other media and household recognition, in comic books Sherlock Holmes has been limited to the occasional miniseries or guest appearance.
In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Holmes appears in a flashback sequence depicting the climactic scene of "The Final Problem" and is still believed by the public to be deceased, although it is revealed in the second volume that Mina later meets with him.
In 2024, IDW Publishing announced Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theater, a three-part miniseries where Sherlock Homes will team up with Great Gatsby, Dracula and the Time Traveller from H.G.
[11] In the Marvel Universe, the immortal shapeshifter Mystique is depicted as having lived in a male guise as a "consulting detective" who first established her romantic relationship with her later wife Destiny (Irene Adler) in the 1800s, biographical details which implying she was Sherlock Holmes,[20] an implication confirmed in the text by 2022,[21] along with Mystique, in her male guide of Holmes, having conceived Nightcrawler with Destiny, who bore him.
This was followed by a 1905 Vitagraph film Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom, with H. Kyrle Bellew and J. Barney Sherry in unlisted roles.
In 1911 the American Biograph company produced a series of 11 short comedies based on the Holmes character with Mack Sennett (later of Keystone Cops fame) in the title role.
John Barrymore played the role in a 1922 movie entitled Sherlock Holmes, with Roland Young as Watson and William Powell in his first screen appearance.
Wilder played the bumbling jealous younger brother of Holmes trying to solve a case in which a young dance hall girl (Madeline Kahn) is being blackmailed.
Created by Joel Emery, the podcast features Paul Waggott as Watson and Harry Attwell as Holmes, focusing on canonical stories and produced by Holy Smokes Audio.
[37] Composer Jon Deak wrote a work for solo double bass based on The Hound of the Baskervilles, complete with narration and sound effects to mimic radio plays of the 1920s.
[38] Progressive rock musicians Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman released a concept album titled The Hound Of The Baskervilles about the story of the same name in 2002.
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a new series consisting of original stories written exclusively by Bert Coules, was then commissioned, but following Williams's death from cancer in 2001, he was replaced by Andrew Sachs.
In 2005, with adaptations written by M. J. Elliott, French and his company began a new series based on Conan Doyle's original tales called The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
His version of Holmes, dressed in deerstalker hat and Inverness cape and smoking a large curved calabash pipe, contributed much to the popular image of the character.
It was revived in the summer of 2010 at the Duchess Theatre, this time starring television actors Peter Egan as Holmes and Robert Daws as Watson.
Adapted by John Nicholson and Steven Canny, directed by Orla O'Loughlin with Javier Marzan as Sherlock Holmes, the production involves only three actors.
[54] An abridged version of Peepolykus's adaptation was recorded in front of a live audience with the original cast for BBC Radio 4 (directed by Alison Hindell) and broadcast in 2012.
With the script & direction by Hirokazu Ikuta, the production featured Cosmos Troupe's Suzuho Makaze as Sherlock Holmes, Hana Jun as Irene Adler and Toa Serika as James Moriarty.
The story centered around Holmes trying to find the criminal mastermind in the figure of James Moriarty, this time through the connection they both have with an-American born opera singer Irene Adler.
In 1982, Granada Television aired an eight-part series entitled Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House which told the story of Holmes' youth.
A second Japanese anime known as Case File nº221: Kabukicho serves as modern re-telling of the stories set in Japan where Sherlock Holmes (voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi) leads a team of detectives to solve a long string of serial murders committed by Jack the Ripper.
Another Japanese anime series called Case Closed, based on the manga of the same name, features a main character by the name of Conan who is heavily influenced by Sherlock Holmes.
In fall 2012, CBS premiered the series Elementary, a contemporary remake set in the United States, starring Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes and Lucy Liu as a female version of Watson.
In the show, John H. Watson is his roommate, Mrs Hudson is a housemother of Baker House and James Moriarty is deputy headmaster of the school.
A plot focuses on Watson who, a year after Holmes's death at Moriarty's hands, resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders.
During their investigation, Holmes and Watson are reunited with their old acquaintance Irene Adler (Charlotte Rampling), now a popular music-hall singer, who reveals that Moriarty has kidnapped her son.
The contemporarily-set 1987 television movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes starred Michael Pennington as the detective and Margaret Colin as Dr. Watson's granddaughter, Jane.
From 2000 to 2002, Muse Entertainment Enterprises produced four television films for the Hallmark Channel, starring Matt Frewer as Holmes and Kenneth Welsh as Dr Watson, in The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000), The Royal Scandal (2001), The Sign of Four (2001) and The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002).
An adaptation of The Speckled Band aired on the 1949 TV anthology series Your Show Time, and starred Alan Napier as Holmes and Melville Cooper as Watson.
