But for whatever reason, it recently offered a clip from “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” the British series from Granada Television that ran from 1984 to 1994 (airing on PBS in the U.S ...

A series of fourteen films based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories was released between 1939 and 1946; the British actors Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce played Holmes and Dr.