The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 31 August 1988
Number of Seasons: n/a
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 105 mins
Format: colour
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Granada Television presents
Copyright: © Granada UK MCMLXXXVIII
Executive Producer: Michael Cox
Producer: June Wyndham Davies
Developed for Television By: John Hawkesworth
Production Manager: Roy Jackson
Unit Manager: David Weir

SCRIPT
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by: Trevor Bowen

DIRECTION
Directed by: Brian Mills

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Cameraman: Michael B. Popley
Camera Operator: Andy Stephen
Focus Puller: Ian Beesley
Chargehand Electrician: Frank Prior

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Alan Ringland

MUSIC
Music Composed by: Patrick Gowers

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Phil Taylor
Boom Operator: Harry Brookes
Sound Editor: Peter Deakin
Dubbing Mixer: Tony Anscombe

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make-up: Ruth Quinn
Costume: Kayt Turner

VISUAL EFFECTS
Optical Effects: Lyndon Evans

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Christopher J. Bradshaw, James Weatherup
Production Buyer: David Round
Graphic Designer: Ray Freeman

MISCELLANEOUS
Research: Lesley Beames
Production Assistant: Helen R. Emerson
Chargehand ASM: Bill Roberts

STUNTS
Stuntman: Gareth Milne

CASTING
Casting Director: Joan McCann

CAST
Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke as Dr. John Watson

Starring
Kristoffer Tabori (Sir Henry Baskerville)
Ronald Pickup (Barrymore)
James Faulkner (Stapleton)

With
Rosemary McHale (Mrs Barrymore)
Neil Duncan (Dr Mortimer)

Raymond Adamson (Sir Charles Baskerville)
Edward Romfourt (purser)
Philip Dettmer (pageboy)
Stephen Tomlin (Perkins)
Fiona Gillies (Beryl Stapleton)
Bernard Horsfall (Frankland)
Donald McKillop (Vicar of Grimpen)
William Ilkley (Selden)
Myrtle Devenish (postmistress)
Elizabeth Spender (Laura Lyons)
Donald Bisset (manservant)

SUMMARY

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moors, apparently frightened to death, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson travel from London to Dartmoor to investigate. They learn that the Baskerville family, the American heir of which has recently arrived at the ancestral home, lives under a curse involving a giant, demonic hound.

AVAILABILITY

Italy
Television Distributors: Malavasi Editore

UK
Television Distributors: ITV; Granada Plus

USA
DVD Distributors: MPI Home Video (DVD1792)

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

USA
Rating: unrated

West Germany
Rating: 6

TIMELINE

1988
August
31: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

December
8: USA - television broadcast

2002
April
28: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)

May
19: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)

June
2: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)
7: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)

September
20: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)

2003
January
1: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)
28: USA - DVD release (MPI Home Video (DVD1792))

February
21: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)

June
8: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)
9: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)

August
10: UK - television broadcast (on Granada Plus)

2004
December
23: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)

2006
May
28: UK - television broadcast (on ITV3)
29: UK - television broadcast (on ITV3)

August
30: UK - television broadcast (on ITV3)

October
22: UK - television broadcast (on ITV3)

December
20: UK - television broadcast (on ITV3)
27: UK - television broadcast (on BBC2)

2007
January
2: UK - television broadcast (on ITV3)
3: UK - television broadcast (on ITV3)

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Sherlock Holmes - Der Hund von Baskerville - West German title
Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles

LINKS

SEQUEL TO
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)
The Sign of Four (1987)

SEQUELS
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (1990)
The Master Blackmailer (1992)
The Last Vampyre (1993)
The Eligible Bachelor (1993)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994)

SEE ALSO
Das Dunkle Schloß (1915)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1920)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002)
Der Hund von Baskerville, 3. Teil - Das unheimliche Zimmer (1915)
Der Hund von Baskerville, 4. Teil (1915)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1920)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1929)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1936)
Priklyucheniya Sherloka Kholmsa i doktora Vatsona: Sobaka Baskervilej (1981)

KEYWORDS

book into film, detectives, dogs, sequels, sherlock holmes

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009