Dr. Watson be known as a 'Watson'." Dr Watson's first name is mentioned on only four occasions. Part one of the very first Sherlock Holmes story, "A Study in Scarlet", is subtitled "Being a reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., Late of the Army Medical Department". The preface of the collection "His Last Bow" is signed 'John H. Watson, M.D', and in "The Problem of Thor Bridge", Watson says that his dispatch box is labelled 'John H. Watson, M.D'. His wife Mary Watson appears to refer to him as 'James' in "The Man with the Twisted Lip"; Dorothy L.
Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery be in "The Sign of the Four". The film references "A Study in Scarlet", "The Adventure of Black Peter", "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". Fox would go on to play the character of Alistair Ross in another Sherlock Holmes pastiche, "The Crucifer of Blood". According to author Kingsley Amis, "the reviews were excellent." Alan Barnes calls the film "part-deconstruction, part-parody of Doyle" that "ends up resembling a long drawn-out shaggy dog story." Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery Doctor Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery is a 1974 British made-for-television mystery