Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula
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With Halloween upon us, it's only fitting to revisit with OTR does best--scare people or provide an escape into adventure.
I stumbled across this 1981 BBC adaptation of Loren D. Estleman's 1978 novel. It's fitting the Holmes and Watson should do a crossover with Bram Stoker's Dracula IMHO! John Moffatt does an excellent job of bringing a Basil Rathbone-style Holmes to modern ears.
You can listen to it on YouTube:
Production information:
The world's greatest detective pits his wits against the evil forces of the sanguinary count.
From a posthumously published memoir of Dr John Watson:
“I feel it my duty to set the record straight regarding a number of erroneous statements made recently concerning the events I am about to describe. I refer in particular to a spurious monograph by one Bram Stoker, entitled Dracula, which completely ignores the part which Sherlock Holmes played in bringing that affair to its successful conclusion.”
Sherlock Holmes...John Moffatt
Dr Watson...Timothy West
Count Dracula...David March
Professor Van Helsing...Aubrey Woods
Thomas Parker...Michael Maloney
Mr. Caffyn...Noel Howlett
Mary Watson...Theresa Streatfeild
Vampire...Frances Jeater
Inspector Lestrade...Nicholas Courtney
Mrs Barton...Katherine Parr
Ned Bridger...John Hollis
Dramatized and directed by Glyn Dearman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1981.
With Halloween upon us, it's only fitting to revisit with OTR does best--scare people or provide an escape into adventure.
I stumbled across this 1981 BBC adaptation of Loren D. Estleman's 1978 novel. It's fitting the Holmes and Watson should do a crossover with Bram Stoker's Dracula IMHO! John Moffatt does an excellent job of bringing a Basil Rathbone-style Holmes to modern ears.
You can listen to it on YouTube:
Click to viewProduction information:
The world's greatest detective pits his wits against the evil forces of the sanguinary count.
From a posthumously published memoir of Dr John Watson:
“I feel it my duty to set the record straight regarding a number of erroneous statements made recently concerning the events I am about to describe. I refer in particular to a spurious monograph by one Bram Stoker, entitled Dracula, which completely ignores the part which Sherlock Holmes played in bringing that affair to its successful conclusion.”
Sherlock Holmes...John Moffatt
Dr Watson...Timothy West
Count Dracula...David March
Professor Van Helsing...Aubrey Woods
Thomas Parker...Michael Maloney
Mr. Caffyn...Noel Howlett
Mary Watson...Theresa Streatfeild
Vampire...Frances Jeater
Inspector Lestrade...Nicholas Courtney
Mrs Barton...Katherine Parr
Ned Bridger...John Hollis
Dramatized and directed by Glyn Dearman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1981.