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Sherlock Holmes pastiches 1971 film "They Might Be Giants", adapted from James Goldman's 1961 British stage play of the same name, featured George C. Scott as a widowed judge named Justin Playfair who imagines himself to be Holmes. When his brother seeks to have him committed, he is brought to Dr. Mildred Watson (Joanne Woodward). In "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective" (1976 TV movie) a rather ineffectual Los Angeles cop, and avid fan of Sherlock Holmes, named "Sherman Holmes" (played by American actor Larry Hagman) suffers a brain injury when his parked motorcycle tips over and falls onto his head (he