The Sunday Telegraph London, December 22nd, 2002
Sherlock Holmes made his British TV debut in a live broadcast in 1951, in the shape of Alan Wheatley - he went on to play the Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood. Since then Holmeses have come thick and fast, reaching their high-water mark so far with Jeremy Brett's masterly portrayal in the 1980s ITV series. Perhaps the most unlikely Holmes of all remains the late Peter Cook, who starred - along with Dudley Moore as Watson and a very friendly- looking Irish wolfhound - in a little-seen and critically excoriated adaptation of The Hound of the Baskerville...
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