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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987) (TV)
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Bob Shayne (written by)
Release Date:
10 January 1987 (USA)
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Plot:
Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life by Watson's female descendant after being cryogenically frozen for eighty years. | Add synopsis »
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2 nominations
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Steven Moffat promises new villains for next series of Sherlock, dismisses suggestion that show is inspired by Batman (with video)
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More fun than almost all other Holmes movies
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Cast
(in credits order) | Margaret Colin | ... | Jane Watson |
 | Michael Pennington | ... | Sherlock Holmes |
| Barry Morse | ... | Carter Morstan |
| Olivier Pierre | ... | Hampton |
| Lila Kaye | ... | Ms. Houston |
| Ray Jewers | ... | Singer |
 | Shane Rimmer | ... | Stark |
 | Nicholas Guest | ... | Toby |
| Sheila Brand | ... | Kitty |
 | Daniel Benzali | ... | Ross |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Connie Booth | ... | Violet Morstan |
| Sneh Gupta | ||
 | William Hootkins | ... | Spelman |
| Paul Maxwell | ... | Hopkins |
| Nancy Paul | ||
| Miles Richardson | ... | Barton |
 | Ricco Ross | ||
| Tony Steedman | ... | Doctor |
| John Sterland | ||
| Howard Swinson | ||
| Hubert Tucker | ||
| Debora Weston | (as Deborah Weston) | |
Directed by | |||
| Kevin Connor | |||
Writing credits | ||
| Bob Shayne | (written by) | |
Produced by | |||
| Nick Gillott | .... | producer | |
| Bob Shayne | .... | supervising producer | |
Original Music by | |||
| Ken Thorne | |||
Cinematography by | |||
| Tony Imi | |||
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| Bernard Gribble | |||
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| Sharon Howard-Field | |||
| Sally Powers | |||
Production Design by | |||
| Keith Wilson | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Simon Wakefield | |||
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| Graham Williams | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Helen Lennox | .... | hair stylist | |
| Sandra Shepherd | .... | makeup artist | |
Production Management | |||
| Claude Hudson | .... | production manager | |
Art Department | |||
| Mark Hedges | .... | prop storeman | |
| Paul Purdy | .... | props | |
Sound Department | |||
| Shep Dawe | .... | sound assistant | |
| Tony Dawe | .... | production sound mixer | |
| Sam Horta | .... | sound editor | |
| Scott D. Jackson | .... | foley supervisor | |
| Mark L. Mangino | .... | sound effects editor | |
| Dean Okrand | .... | sound re-recording mixer | |
Stunts | |||
| Hubie Kerns Jr. | .... | stunts | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Micky Wilson | .... | gaffer | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Hilary Watson | .... | wardrobe supervisor | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Cosmas P. Bolger | .... | post-production executive | |
Music Department | |||
| Robert Drasnin | .... | music supervisor | |
| Edgardo Simone | .... | orchestrator | |
| Robert Takagi | .... | music editor | |
| Bruce Babcock | .... | composer: additional music (uncredited) | |
| Bruce Babcock | .... | orchestrator (uncredited) | |
| William Ross | .... | composer: additional music (uncredited) | |
| Edgardo Simone | .... | composer: additional music (uncredited) | |
Other crew | |||
| Lorraine Fennell | .... | script supervisor | |
| Cliff Lanning | .... | production runner | |
| Norman S. Powell | .... | vice president: executive in charge of production, CBS | |
| Paul L. Tucker | .... | production executive (as Paul Tucker) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- CBS / Fox Video (1987) (Greece) (VHS)
- Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1987) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
- Pinewood Studios movie studio
- Lee Lighting lighting
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USA:100 min
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The book that Ms. Houston is reading at her desk was written by Jessica Fletcher of "Murder, She Wrote" (1984).See more »
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I videotaped this film when it first aired and kept it on tape, now DVD ever since. I think it is outstanding for a TV movie. To have the "real" Holmes brought back in the late 20th Century requires the film to have some humorous scenes and they had plenty of them. I also liked the plot, the drama portion, I mean. It wasn't obvious, yet it was executed with care so as to be logical all the way through. Some shows are ruined by plots too obscure to be followed or too obvious to entertain. This script was exactly between those types.
Holmes was quick to pick up on our modern world, yet totally befuddled by some things--just as anyone would be if actually put in that situation.
Tonight I saw another "Holmes in the modern-world" movie, the Larry Hagman "Return of the World's Greatest Detective," which I somehow never saw before. I gave it a 4 of 10 as it had holes in the plot and really only made me chuckle a couple of times. The film reviewed here towers over that earlier work, and is better than a similar TV movie made not too long after this one. This film moved around, not only to England, but to various places in the U.S. The Hagman film takes place all in Los Angeles. It's almost like they had $300,000 in the total budget and had to pay Hagman $275,000, so their location shooting could go no farther than Mulholland Drive in L.A.
If you like Sherlock Holmes, I highly recommend seeing this movie as soon as you can.