Reginald Owen 1954-55 television series. Owen first played Watson in the film "Sherlock Holmes" (1932), and then Holmes himself in "A Study in Scarlet" (1933). Having played Ebenezer Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Owen has the odd distinction of playing three classic characters of Victorian fiction only to live to see those characters be taken over and personified by other actors, namely Alastair Sim as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. Later in his career, Owen appeared with James Garner in the television series "Maverick" in the episodes "The Belcastle Brand" (1957) and "Gun-Shy" (1958) and guest
Adaptations of Sherlock Holmes hijacked for ransom by D. B. Cooper. The 1991-92 series "Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years" consisted of two TV films, in which Sherlock Holmes (played by Christopher Lee) and Dr. Watson (played by Patrick Macnee) are older adults who continue investigating cases. The two films were "Incident at Victoria Falls" and "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady". In 1991, Charlton Heston played Holmes in the Turner Network Television production of Paul Giovanni's play "The Crucifer of Blood". From 2000 to 2002, Muse Entertainment Enterprises produced four television films for the Hallmark Channel, starring Matt Frewer as Holmes and Kenneth Welsh