The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV serial)
It was produced by Barry Letts, directed by Peter Duguid, and starred Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes and Terence Rigby as Doctor Watson.This production of Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles was the second multi-part BBC adaptation, following Peter Cushing's two-part episode for the 1968 television series."[5] Baker himself came to consider his performance in this serial a failure,[1] saying "I couldn't lift the character into that special world that makes Holmes so funny and fascinating."[3] Terence Rigby, who portrayed Watson in this production, later played Inspector Layton in the 1983 version of The Sign of Four featuring Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes.[1][6] In his later autobiography, Baker claimed "the dog who had been engaged by the BBC to play the hound was gentler than Mother Teresa"[3] and had to be coaxed with sausages to attack Nicholas Woodeson.