The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) is a Canadian television film directed by Rodney Gibbons and starring Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh. The film is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name. The first of four Holmes adaptations starring Frewer as Holmes, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was followed by "The Sign of Four" in 2001, then "The Royal Scandal" (a blend of "A Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Bruce-Partington Plans") in 2001, with "The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire" (an original story) the final film released in
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983 film) the Baskervilles" were ultimately filmed before Granada Television's "Sherlock Holmes" series premiered in 1984. 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. John H. Watson. In an interview with "Scarlet Street", Ian Richardson explained: Denholm Elliot was case as Dr. Mortimer having previously portrayed Stapleton in the comedy spoof version of the Hound starring Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. He also appeared with "Hound" co-star Connie Booth in the spoof "The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We