Sherlock Holmes early 1900s, H. A. Saintsbury took over the role from Gillette for a tour of the play. Between this play and Conan Doyle's own stage adaptation of "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Saintsbury portrayed Holmes over 1,000 times. Basil Rathbone played Holmes and Nigel Bruce played Watson in fourteen U.S. films (two for 20th Century Fox and a dozen for Universal Pictures) from 1939 to 1946, and in "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" on the Mutual radio network from 1939 to 1946 (before the role of Holmes passed to Tom Conway). While the Fox films were period pieces,
Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV series) TV Sherlock Holmes Collection", a four-disc DVD set featuring all 39 episodes of the series. As of 2012, the series has been released on DVD by Mill Creek yet again, this time under the title of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The Mill Creek DVD releases feature short introductions by Christopher Lee, taken from the 1985 documentary "The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes". In 2014 Tropics Entertainment released all 39 episodes on ten disc DVD set. In 2017 it was released as a single disc Blu-ray release in Germany with original English language. Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV series) Sherlock Holmes