Night Owl (Gerry Rafferty song) Night Owl (Gerry Rafferty song) "Night Owl" is a song by Gerry Rafferty. It is the second track on his 1979 album of the same name. It features a Lyricon solo played by "Baker Street" saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft. The song made the top five in the UK Singles Chart, and along with "Baker Street" is one of two solo efforts by Gerry Rafferty to accomplish this feat. Though the single was a top-five hit for Rafferty in his native United Kingdom, "Night Owl" was never released in this format in North America, at a time when interest in Rafferty was
Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes many television incarnations of Sherlock Holmes, varying in faithfulness to the source material from direct adaptations of Holmes stories, most notably "The Hound of the Baskervilles", to new stories set in the present day and even the future. One of the earliest television appearances was the 1951 BBC mini series "Sherlock Holmes" starring Alan Wheatley as Holmes and Raymond Francis as Watson. Three years later, the first American adaptation of Holmes and Watson, "Sherlock Holmes" was produced by Sheldon Reynolds in 1954, and starred Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion-Crawford as Doctor Watson produced in Paris, France. In the