Sherlock Holmes

On the one hand, the works of Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (DL) on the matter of Sherlock Holmes need no introduction. On the other hand, one can go on and on.

So let's skip all that. The tables shown below contain data: links to the original text of Doyle's four Holmes novels and to his 56 Holmes short stories, to the baker's dozen of the Basil Rathbone (KBE, MC, Kt) movies based thereto, and to many other complete movies or videos of the stories.

	R/O Reginald Owen 1933 A/W Arthur Wontner 1932 B/R Basil Rathbone 1939 R/H Ronald Howard 1954 D/W Douglas Wilmer 1965 P/C Peter Cushing 1968 J/B Jeremy Brett 1984

Each row of the table contains a section title or one such story. The table is divided into eight sections: Doyle's novels, Doyle's five anthologies of short stories (most featuring Jeremy Brett),, the Basil Rathbone movies, and the Ronald Howard movies (the latter two groups which are only loosely based on Doyle's work yet which did much to establish the popular Holmes character).

The first column of each of the story rows contains a link to Doyle's original text of the story, and the second column contains a link to the Wikipedia (W) entry for said story (which are often interesting in their own right). The remaining columns contain the links to 93 currently web-available movie and TV show versions of the stories, encoded according to the actor starring as Holmes, per the table shown to the upper right.

Another 11 versions I've found, from 1912 to 1944, are listed after the table.

The Novels
1887 ~ A Study in Scarlet	W	R/O		P/C
1890 ~ The Sign of the Four	W	A/W		P/C	J/B
1902 ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles	W		B/R	P/C	J/B
1915 ~ The Valley of Fear	W	A/W
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ~ 1891-2
A Scandal in Bohemia	W				J/B
The Red-Headed League	W				J/B
A Case of Identity	W
The Boscombe Valley Mystery	W				J/B
The Five Orange Pips	W
The Man with the Twisted Lip	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Speckled Band	W			D/W	J/B
The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb	W
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet	W
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches	W				J/B
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ~ 1892-3
Silver Blaze	W				J/B
The Yellow Face	W
The Stock-Broker's Clerk	W
The Gloria Scott	W
The Musgrave Ritual	W				J/B
The Reigate Puzzle	W
The Crooked Man	W				J/B
The Resident Patient	W				J/B
The Greek Interpreter	W				J/B
The Naval Treaty	W				J/B
The Final Problem	W				J/B
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ~ 1903-4
The Adventure of the Empty House	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Dancing Men	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Priory School	W				J/B
The Adventure of Black Peter	W
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton	W
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Three Students	W
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter	W
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange	W
The Adventure of the Second Stain	W				J/B
His Last Bow ~ 1908
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Red Circle	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Dying Detective	W				J/B
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot	W				J/B
His Last Bow	W
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ~ 1927
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone	W				J/B
The Problem of Thor Bridge	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Creeping Man	W				J/B
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire	W
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs	W
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client	W			D/W
The Adventure of the Three Gables	W
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier	W
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane	W
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman	W
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger	W
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place	W				J/B
The Basil Rathbone Movies ~ 1939-46
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	W		B/R
The Voice of Terror [His Last Bow]	W
Secret Weapon [Dancing Men]	W		B/R
Holmes in Washington	W		B/R
Holmes Faces Death [Musgrave Ritual]	W
The Spider Woman	W
Scarlet Claw	W		B/R
The Pearl of Death [Six Napoleons]	W		B/R
House of Fear [Five Orange Pips]	W		B/R
The Woman In Green [Empty House]	W		B/R
Pursuit to Aligiers	W		B/R
Terror by Night	W		B/R
Dressed to Kill	W		B/R
The Ronald Howard Movies ~ 1954-55
The Case Of The Cunningham Heritage				R/H
The Case of the Neurotic Detective				R/H
The Case of the Exhumed Client				R/H
The Case of Lady Beryl				R/H
The Case of the Deadly Prophecy				R/H
The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter				R/H
The Case of the Jolly Hangman				R/H
The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids				R/H
The Case of the Tyrant's Daughter				R/H
The Case of the Violent Suitor				R/H
The Case of the Christmas Pudding				R/H
The Case of the Night Train Riddle				R/H
The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough				R/H
The Case of the Imposter Mystery				R/H
The Case of the Eiffel Tower				R/H
The Case of the Royal Murder				R/H
The Case of the Perfect Husband				R/H
The Case of the Impromptu Performance				R/H
The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors				R/H
Added on 2012-07-16:
The Case of the Careless Suffragette				R/H
The Case of the Vanished Detective				R/H
The Case of the Thistle Killer				R/H
The Case of the French Interpreter				R/H
The Case of the Greystone Inscription				R/H
The Case of the Singing Violin				R/H
The Case of the Red Headed League				R/H
The Mother Hubbard Case				R/H
The Case of Harry Crocker				R/H
The Case of the Blind Mans Bluff				R/H
The Case of the Winthrop Legend				R/H
The Case of the Diamond Tooth				R/H
The Case of the Unlucky Gambler				R/H
The Case of the Split Ticket				R/H
The Case of the Laughing Mummy				R/H
The Case of the Shy Ballerina				R/H
The Case of the Belligerent Ghost				R/H
The Case of the Texas Cowgirl				R/H
The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun				R/H

 

Other Versions

• This is the oldest Holmes I've been able to find on the Internet. Produced in 1912, it is the only surviving episode of the first officially authorized series of Holmes films, produced under the direct supervision of Conan Doyle. Here's The Copper Beeches (in two parts) starring Georges Treville as Holmes. This is, of course, a silent film.

• Here are three episodes from 1921 starring Eille Norwood as Holmes: The Man With The Twisted Lip, The Devil's Foot, and The Dying Detective. These too are silent films.

• Here's a 1931 version of The Speckled Band starring Raymond Massey as Holmes. This version features an unusual "front- office" at 221 Baker Street, which highlights the emerging punched- card processing machines, dictaphones, and inter- office intercom of that time.

• Here are four episodes, from 1931 through 1937, featuring Arthur Wontner as Holmes: The Sleeping Cardinal, The Sign of Four (included above), The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (derived from Doyle's The Valley of Fear, this version is unfortunately of low quality), and Murder At The Baskervilles (derived from Doyle's Silver Blaze).

• Here's a 1949 version of The Speckled Band, this one featuring Alan Napier (later famous for his role as Alfred in Batman). This one was originally created as a pilot for a series of Holmes shows, but it ended up becoming a one-off episode for the Lucky Strike sponsored Your Show Time series.

• Lastly, to finish with a twist, here's a 1944 parody version of The Case of the Screaming Bishop, produced by Columbia Phantasy Cartoons and featuring Hairlock Combs and his assistant Gotsome, of 223 Baker St.