Meitantei Holmes (1984 - 1985)

Country of Origin: Japan
Date(s) of Broadcast: 26 November 1984 - 20 May 1985
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 26
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production: Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Executive Producers: Shunzo Kato, Yutaka Fujioka
English Language Version Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Italian Language Version Executive Producer: Luciano Scaffa
Producer: Yoshimitsu Takahashi
Production Supervisors: Wataru Date, Seiji Suzuki

SCRIPT
Scripts: Hayao Miyazaki, Tsunehisa Ito, Yoshihisa Araki, Sunao Katabuchi, Gi Pagot, Marco Pagot
Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle
Story Consultants: Mayumi Shimazaki, Keiji Yamazaki

DIRECTION
Chief Directors: Hayao Miyazaki, Kyosuke Mikuriya
Episode Directors: Tatsuo Hayakawa (episodes 1, 2, 6, 8, 14, 17, 18, 23, 25, 26); Kyosuke Mikuriya; Hayao Miyazaki (episodes 2, 4, 5, 12, 17, 26); Takaya Mizutani (episodes 11, 14, 15); Seiji Okuta (episodes 10, 13, 18, 19); Heipachio Tanaka (episodes 21, 22); Takashi Yanagisawa (episode 24)

ANIMATION
Animation: Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Animation Directors: Heihachirou Tanaka (episodes 6, 12, 16), Kazuhide Tomonaga (episode 10), Kazuyuki Kobayashi (episode 24), Kitarou Takasaka (episode 20), Shoji Yoshida (episodes 13, 19), Shojuro Yamauchi (episodes 2, 7, 8, 15, 25, 26), Takeo Kitahara (episodes 13, 16, 19, 20, 22), Tatsuo Yanagino (episode 6), Tsukasa Tannai (episodes 1, 9), Yasushi Tanaka (episodes 14, 17, 18, 23), Yoshifumi Kondo (episodes 3, 4, 5, 11), Yoshinobu Michihata (episode 21)
Technical Directors: Hayao Miyazaki (episodes 3, 4, 5, 9, 10), Keiji Hayakawa (episodes 1, 2, 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, 23, 25, 26), Nobuo Tomizawa (episode 11), Seiji Okuda (episodes 7, 13, 16, 19), Sumio Tokoro (episodes 6, 12), Takashi Yanagisawa (episode 24), Takaya Mizutani (episodes 20, 21, 22)
Character Designers: Gi Pagot, Marco Pagot, Tsukasa Tannai, Yoshifumi Kondo

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Akio Wakana, Hirokata Takahashi

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Shuichi Kakesu, Takeshi Seyama

MUSIC
Music: Kentaroh Haneda
Opening Theme: Ken Sato
End Theme: Norimasa Yamanaka
Lyrics: Tokuko Miura, Noriko Miura
Music Director: Seiji Suzuki
Arrangements: Ryo Fukui

SOUND
Director of Recording: Yasumasa Date

DESIGN
Art Directors: Jin Kageyama, Nizo Yamamoto

MISCELLANEOUS
English language Version Translation / Subtitles: New Generation Pictures

VOICES
Taichiro Hirokawa (Sherlock Holmes)
Kousei Tomita (Watson)
Chikao Otsuka (Professor Moriarty)
Yoko Asagami (Mrs Hudson)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
Hamilton Camp (Professor Moriarty)
Larry Moss (Sherlock Hound)
Lewis Arquette (Doctor Watson)
Hamilton Camp (Todd (episodes 1, 2, 5))
Lewis Arquette (Todd)
Pat Morris (Mrs Hudson)

ITALIAN LANGUAGE VERSION VOICES
Elio Pandolfi (Sherlock Holmes)
Riccardo Garrone (Dr John Watson)
Cristina Grado (Mrs Hudson)
Enzo Consoli (Lestrade)
Mauro Bosco (Professor Moriarty)

SUMMARY

Canine detective Sherlock Holmes matches wits with his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty in a series of adventures.

EPISODES

1. Kare ga uwasano meitantei
2. Akuno tensai Moriarty kyoju
3. Chiisana Martha no dai jiken!?
4. Mrs Hudson hitojichi jiken
5. Aoi ruby
6. Midori no fuusen nazo wo toke!
7. Dai tsuiseki chibiiko tanteidan
8. Madara no himo
9. Kaitei no zaihou
10. Dover kaikyo no dai kuuchuusen!
11. Nerawareta kyo dai chokinbako
12. Kyoju arashi no dai shiibai!!
13. Kasha ga kieta!? Kyoju no dai majutsu
14. Chinmi! Sango no lobster
15. Mitaka! Pikapika no oodorobou
16. Maju! Holmes saika shika?
17. Thames gawa no kaibutsu
18. Ness konichiita doji sakusen!
19. Soseki London takogaasen!
20. Hikousen shiro gane go wo oe!
21. Bunbun! Haehae mecha sakusen
22. Hacha mecha hikouki dai race!?
23. Chie kurabe! Oumu tai kyoju
24. Kike! Moriarty sanka
25. Dai konran! Ningyo surikae jiken
26. Sayonara Holmes! Saigo no jiken

AVAILABILITY

Japan
Television Distributor: TV Asahi

USA
Television Distributors: Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes - German title
Detective Holmes
Famous Detective Holmes
Il fiuto di Sherlock Holmes - Italian title
Great Detective Holmes
Sherlock Holmes - French title
Sherlock Hound, the Detective
Sherlock koira - Finnish title

KEYWORDS

animation, anime, anthropomorphism, detectives, dogs, sherlock holmes

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008