The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Adaptations

Sherlock Holmes has been adapted numerous times for both films and plays, and the character has been played by over 70 different actors in more than 200 films.[29] A number of film and television series have borne the title "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", but some of these are either original stories,[30] combinations of a number of Doyle's stories, or in one case, an adaptation of The Sign of the Four.[31]

Irene Adler, who is in the first short story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", is prominent in many modern adaptations, despite only appearing in one story.[32] Often in modern adaptations, she is portrayed as a love interest for Holmes, as in Robert Doherty's Elementary and the BBC's Sherlock,[33] even though in the story itself, the narration claims: "It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler."[32] In his Sherlock Holmes Handbook, Christopher Redmond notes "the Canon provides little basis for either sentimental or prurient speculation about a Holmes-Adler connection."[34]

Multiple series have featured adaptations of all or nearly all of the stories in this collection, including the 1921–1923 Stoll film series (all except "The Five Orange Pips"),[35] the radio series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1930–1936),[36] the 1939–1950 radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (all except "The Beryl Coronet"),[37] and the BBC Sherlock Holmes 1952–1969 radio series. Many of the stories from the collection were included as episodes in the Granada Television series Sherlock Holmes which ran from 1984 until 1994.[38] The stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes were dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 1990–1991 as part of the BBC Sherlock Holmes 1989–1998 radio series,[39] and were adapted as episodes of the radio series The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2005–2016).[40] The stories within the collection have also been adapted for many other productions.


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