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 pastiches nunca" (2004), where Sherlock Holmes meets Mary Poppins. The Conan Doyle estate commissioned Anthony Horowitz, author of the Alex Rider novels, "The Power of Five" and TV's "Foyle's War", to write a new, uniquely "authorised" Sherlock Holmes novel. Published by Orion Books in 2011 under the title "The House of Silk", the content and title were a "closely guarded secret" before publication. . The BBC's TV series "Sherlock" re-imagines Holmes and Watson (played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman) as contemporary figures with Watson publishing his accounts of Holmes' exploits online. The US TV series "Elementary" features a modern Holmes