The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV serial) to put the tall, pop-eyed, mad-voiced Baker into the Holmesian cape and hat", describing him as "a predictably larger-than-life Holmes". The serial was released in Australia on 20/08/2014 by Madman Entertainment. Special features include a commentary by Tom Baker. The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV serial) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) is a British television serial made by the BBC, produced by Barry Letts, directed by Peter Duguid and starring Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes and Terence Rigby as Doctor Watson. The serial is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The music
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002 film) stars Richard Roxburgh as Sherlock Holmes and Ian Hart as Doctor Watson. Hart would play Watson again in the 2004 TV film "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking", also written by Cubitt. The hound was a mix of animatronics and computer generated images and was created by the same team, Crawley Creatures and Framestore, that provided the dinosaurs for "Walking with Dinosaurs" and "The Lost World". This version diverges from the novel in a few instances. The film is set in the time period the original tale was published as opposed to when it was originally set.