Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2001)
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes is a 2001 crime series created by David Pirie. It stars Charles Edwards, Ian Richardson and Alexander Armstrong.
If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.
Cast
- Charles Edwards as Arthur Conan Doyle
- Ian Richardson as Dr. Joseph Bell
- Alexander Armstrong as Turnavine
- Simon Quarterman as Baynes
- Paul Butterworth as Fainting man
- Malcolm Sinclair as Blythe
- Andrew Woodall as Greenwell
- Henry Goodman as De Meyer
- Roger Lloyd Pack as Dr. Ibbotson
- Dermot Crowley as Elkins
- Clare Holman as Elspeth
- Tim Potter as Bolton
