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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes – 1971

This was made for ITV and was one of the first drama series to be nearly entirley made onto very expensive video tape. Thames TV made the programme, and twenty six episdodes were made over the two years. Graham Greenes brothe rHugh was partially responsible for the series as it stemmed from an idea he had. Hugh went on to be director general of the BBC.
Directors
Jonathan Alwyn (episode “The Assyrian Rejuvenator”) (episode “The Looking for the specie room”) (episode “The missing Q.Cs”) (episode “The missing witness sensation”)
Bill Bain (episode “The Affair of the Tortoise”)
Reginald Collin (episode “The Mohabite Cypher”)
Alan Cooke (episode “The Woman in the Big Hat”)
Graham Evans (episode “The Secret of the Foxhunter”)
Jim Goddard (episode “The case of the Dixon Torpedo”)
Piers Haggard (episode “Madame Sara”)
Don Leaver (episode “The Mystery of the Amber Beads”)
Dennis Vance (episode “Anonymous letter”)

Writers
Alexander Baron
Julian Bond
Reginald Collin
Alan Cooke
Bill Craig
Paul Erickson
Jacques Futrelle stories Cell 13 and The Superfluous Finger
William Hope Hodgson short story The Horse of the Invisible (episode 1.05)
Owen Holder
Stuart Hood
Gerald Kelsey
Philip Mackie
Ian Kennedy Martin
Michael Meyer
Anthony Skene
Anthony Steven

Producers
Jonathan Alwyn producer
Robert Love producer
Kim Mills executive producer
Lloyd Shirley executive producer

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What an amazing piece of kit our telly was. Can you imagine having to change channel by turning a knob to tune in BBC2 and forever getting up to realign the aerial and contrast, and the only way to stop the picture from rolling was to give the set a good thump? Do you remember that we only have three channels to watch? Thinking about it, the conversation was better at school next day as everyone seemed to be watching the same thing unlike nowadays where we have too much choice. Aye, the quality of programmes seem to have dwindled when you think back to what we had in our days.

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