The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1972 American made-for-television mystery film directed by Barry Crane and starring Stewart Granger as Sherlock Holmes and Bernard Fox as Doctor Watson. The movie is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles". "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was the first American color version of the tale, and was produced by ABC-TV for their "ABC Movie of the Week". The production was one of three pilots for a series of television movies featuring literary sleuths with the others being Nick Carter
Hound Tor "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The tor is popular with rock climbers Hound Tor Hound Tor is a tor on Dartmoor, Devon, England and is a good example of a heavily weathered granite outcrop. It is easily accessible, situated within a few minutes from the B3387 between Bovey Tracey and Widecombe-in-the-Moor. The site is administered by Dartmoor National Park Authority for English Heritage as it includes the ruins of a medieval village, alongside prehistoric works of stone construction nearby. Sabine Baring-Gould said that it derived its name from the shape assumed by the blocks on the summit that have been