"The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1982) TV mini-series

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

3 October 1982 (UK)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Crime

Plot Keywords:

TV Mini-Series | Sherlock Holmes | Based On Novel

Cast

Tom Baker	...	Sherlock Holmes (4 episodes, 1982)
Terence Rigby	...	Doctor Watson (4 episodes, 1982)
Will Knightley	...	Doctor Mortimer (4 episodes, 1982)
Nicholas Woodeson	...	Sir Henry Baskerville (4 episodes, 1982)
Morris Perry	...	Barrymore (3 episodes, 1982)
Gillian Martell	...	Mrs. Barrymore (3 episodes, 1982)
Kay Ashead	...	Beryl Stapleton (3 episodes, 1982)
Christopher Ravenscroft	...	Stapleton (3 episodes, 1982)
Michael Goldie	...	Selden (2 episodes, 1982)
Caroline John	...	Laura Lyons (2 episodes, 1982)

Runtime:

30 min (4 episodes)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Movie Connections:

Version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) (TV)

Not quite a 'classic' classic!

I remember this adaptation, made for the BBC's Sunday Classic Serial slot. Tom Baker had just left 'Doctor Who' where he was 'fantastic' (of course!) I think this was the first time he had played the sleuth (he starred as Holmes on stage in 'The Mask of Moriarty' in 1985) but do not remember his performance here! I do remember Terence Rigby as Watson turned in another in a long line of Nigel Bruce impressions.

Thank goodness we soon had David Burke to set a new example for Edward Hardwicke and Ian Hart! What I do remember favourably is Carl Davis' haunting theme music and the animated titles. The music was very much in the vein of Davis' sombre theme for 'Winston Churchill - The Wilderness Years.' The animated titles (following the Hound's shadow from rock to rock over a bleak, dark-skied Dartmoor) would have served well as a storyboard for part of the never yet correctly filmed 'legend of the Hound!' Oh well - we can dream!