Ronald Howard - Sherlock Holmes (1954 - 1955)

Produced by Sheldon Reynolds, filmed and scored in France, 39 specially written thirty-minute TV films were made starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Watson. Ronald Howard (b. 7 April 1918, d. 19 December 1996) was the son of the actor Leslie Howard, with whom he appeared in "Pimpernel Smith". Howard Marion-Crawford (b. 17 January 1914, d. 24 November 1969) is one of those rare Holmes-Watson actors. He was Holmes to Finlay Currie's Watson in a 1948 BBC radio production of The Speckled Band.

Review: "...from interesting and adequate dramas, through standard television fodder to the downright silly. In The Texas Cowgirl, for example, a Red Indian Chief in full dress, a fugitive from a traveling Wild West show, erected a tepee inside the Baker Street consulting room..." Michael Pointer, The Pictorial History of Sherlock Holmes

Bob Byrne has based his short story The Case of the Cursed Tower, on The Case of the Exhumed Client from the series. Some of the episodes are available on video and DVD. A full list, together with original broadcast dates, is below.