Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady is the first of two TV films made in 1991 under the banner Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years. Harry Alan Towers was executive producer. Bob Shayne the writer.

It featured Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson as elderly gentlemen getting involved with Balkan terrorists and meeting again with “The Woman” the actress and leading lady Irene Adler (Morgan Fairchild). They save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (Cyril Shaps) from an assassination at the opera house and thus delay the onset of World War I.

The film also featured a number of historical characters involved in the plot including Eliot Ness (Tom Lahm) and Sigmund Freud (John Bennett). It was shot back to back with Incident at Victoria Falls. Both were released in the next two years and there were drastically edited versions released by Vestron Videos. No further films were made. The full versions are now available on DVD.

Filming locations were in Austria, London and Luxembourg.

External links

Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady at the Internet Movie Database

Screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories

Silent films

Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
A Study in Scarlet (1914)
Detektiv Braun (1914)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
The Valley of Fear (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1922)
Der Hund von Baskerville (1929)

Norwood series

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
The Sign of Four (1923)

Wontner series

Rathbone-Bruce
series

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Voice of Terror (1942)
Secret Weapon (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)

Maslennikov
series

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
The Treasures of Agra (1983)
The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)

Stoll series (shorts)

By actor

Clive Brook	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) Sherlock Holmes (1932)

Peter Cushing	The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) The Masks of Death (1984)

Christopher Lee	The Deadly Necklace (1962) The Leading Lady (1991) Incident at Victoria Falls (1991)

Christopher Plummer	Silver Blaze (1977) Murder by Decree (1979)

Ian Richardson	The Sign of Four (1983) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) Murder Rooms (2000)

Matt Frewer	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) The Sign of Four (2001) The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002) The Royal Scandal (2003)

Ian Hart (as Watson)	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) The Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Robert Downey, Jr.	Sherlock Holmes (2009) A Game of Shadows (2011)

Other films

The Speckled Band (1931)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937)
A Study in Terror (1965)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse (1983)
The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
Hands of a Murderer (1990)
The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
The Hound of London (1993)
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Sherlock Holmes (2010)
Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
Mr. Holmes (2015)

Comedies,
pastiches,
and parodies

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
The Limejuice Mystery or Who Spat in Grandfather's Porridge? (1930)
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
The Case of the Screaming Bishop (1944)
Deduce, You Say! (1956)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976)
Sherlock Pink (1976)
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
The Private Eyes (1980)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Without a Clue (1988)
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1997)
Zero Effect (1998)
A Samba for Sherlock (2001)
Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler (2006)
Aria the Scarlet Ammo (2008)
Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (2009)
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)
Sherlock Yack (2011)
The Empire of Corpses (2015)

Television
series

Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Sherlock Holmes (1954)
Sherlock Holmes (1965–68)
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
The Baker Street Boys (1983)
Sherlock Hound (1984–85)
Sherlock Holmes (1984–94)
- episodes
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001)
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Sherlock (2010–present)
Elementary (2012–present)
Sherlock Holmes (2013)
Sherlock Holmes (2014)

Films directed by Peter Sasdy

Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) Countess Dracula (1971) Hands of the Ripper (1971) Doomwatch (1972) Nothing But the Night (1973) I Don't Want to Be Born (1975) Welcome to Blood City (1977) The Lonely Lady (1983) Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)

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