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 and the Case of the Silk Stocking production was "Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Season", the name being changed only a few weeks before transmission. While Ian Hart returned from the earlier "The Hound of the Baskervilles" film, in this film Rupert Everett replaced Richard Roxburgh as Sherlock Holmes. Guy Henry who had earlier portrayed Sherlock Holmes in "" was cast in the minor role of Mr. Bilney. Directed by Simon Cellan Jones, the production filmed in and around London in late summer 2003. The musical score is by Adrian Johnston. The book given to Holmes by Mrs Vandeleur is "Psychopathia Sexualis". Unlike "Baskervilles", this production was