The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (film) invited to The Diogenes Club by Sherlock's older brother Mycroft. The club hosts the most unsociable men of London, and they have banned talking. Once there, Mycroft, asks him to help Lady Eva Blackwell. She is being blackmailed by one of the most villainous men of London, Charles Augustus Milverton who is demanding £7,000 for some letters he has stolen from her, threatening to release them to the public if she does not pay the ransom. Upon their release, the letters would cause a scandal that would end Lady Eva's marriage engagement. Sherlock agrees to help her. The same day,
Sherlock Holmes pastiches Holmes and Professor Moriarty. The film was produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Chris Columbus; the novelization was written by Alan Arnold. In both "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" (1987 TV movie) and "Sherlock Holmes Returns" (1993 TV movie) a cryogenically frozen Holmes is awakened in the present day. "Hands of a Murderer" (1990 TV movie) sees Edward Woodward playing Holmes and John Hillerman (of Magnum, P.I. fame) as Watson, in a plot involving Mycroft (Peter Jeffrey) and Moriarty (Anthony Andrews) battling for control of government secrets. "" (2002 TV movie) has James D'Arcy as a youthful, bed-hopping Holmes,