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
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking is a British television film originally broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 26 December 2004. Produced by Tiger Aspect Productions, it was written by Allan Cubitt and was a sequel to the same company's adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", made for the BBC two years previously. Although "Silk Stocking" retained the same Dr. Watson, Ian Hart, this time the character of Sherlock Holmes was played by Rupert Everett. In November 1903, young women are being killed in London,