The Best Sherlock Holmes

Between 1979 and 1986, Russia s Lenfilm Studios produced a series of television films based on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Directed by Igor Maslennikov, it was the most popular series in the history of Soviet television, and starred Vasily Livanov as the legendary London consulting detective and Vitaly Solomin as his redoubtable associate, Dr. John H. Watson, M. D., late of Her Majesty s Fifth Northumberland Fusiliersa role for which Solomin has been universally praised as one of the most authentic