The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Granada struck gold with their definitive series of Holmes dramatisations, produced by Michael Cox and June Wyndham-Davies, and starring Jeremy Brett with David Burke, later Edward Hardwicke, as Watson. The production expertise that won Granada plaudits for Brideshead Revisited was applied here with great efficacy, winning awards and international acclaim.Having kicked off on 24/04/1984 with A Scandal in Bohemia, Granada's first two series concluded in The Final Problem (29/09/1985). Holmes faces up to a deadly stalemate with Professor Moriarty (the brilliant Eric Porter) at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Cue a breathtaking fall performed by stuntmen Alf Joint and Marc Boyle, reviewed in The Daily Mirror at the time as "the most frightening TV sequence ever made."