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
Bertram Fletcher Robinson collaboration led only to Doyle's celebrated novel, "The Hound of the Baskervilles". Robinson also contributed an idea to the plot of a Sherlock Holmes short-story entitled "The Adventure of the Norwood Builder", which was first published in Collier's Weekly on 31 October 1903. Doyle is sometimes seen as downplaying the importance of Robinson's contribution to "The Hound of the Baskervilles". The literary scholar and critic, Professor William Wallace Robson wrote that it is 'impossible to determine' the precise extent of Robinson's role, but in all probability he merely acted as a 'creative trigger'. He adds that once the element of