Quiz

Out for a walk, characters hear, then see, a dark-coated canine atop the ridge of a hill and someone comments that it looks like a wolf. That's problematic because by the turn of the 16th century, wolves were extinct in England and Wales. However, they held for longer in other parts of the British realm. In Scotland, wolves survived almost 200 years more, despite regular wolf hunts organized by nobility and decrees by Scottish kings for their destruction. Wolves held on in Ireland until the middle of the 18th century. By 1760, the English wolf in the British Isles was completely extirpated.

The film was produced for The Hallmark Channel as the first installment in a four-part series of Hallmark Sherlock Holmes films. They were all directed by Rodney Gibbons, and he was involved in writing final drafts for the first three and wrote the screenplay for the final film. They all starred Matt Frewer as Sherlock and Kenneth Welsh as Dr. Watson. The films were Sherlock Holmes - Il mastino di Baskerville (2000), Sherlock Holmes - Il segno dei quattro (2001), The Royal Scandal (2001) and The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002).

Sherlock Holmes - Il mastino di Baskerville (2000) is a Canadian television film directed by Rodney Gibbons and starring Matt Frewer and Kenneth Welsh. The film is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name.