Sherlock Holmes pastiches called "The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." Many episodes are available on CD as well as downloadable from the Imagination Theater website. Holmes has been an inspiration of both serious and comedy films. A series of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. John Watson were released between 1939 and 1946. Many are loosely based on the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and some are original stories. Those that pit Holmes and Watson against the Nazis, made during the Second World War, were in the spirit of Conan Doyle's patriotism,
Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes dilemmas, Watson hires Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine), an alcoholic, womanizing, ne'er-do-well actor to impersonate Holmes. The twenty-third film in the VeggieTales series is entitled "Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler", and features Larry the Cucumber as Holmes and Bob the Tomato as Watson. Robert Downey, Jr. appears as the detective in the Guy Ritchie–directed "Sherlock Holmes" (2009) and its sequel "" (2011), with Jude Law as Dr. Watson, Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, and Jared Harris as Moriarty. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is the highest-grossing Sherlock Holmes film, grossing $545 million worldwide. In 2010, low-budget film company the