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When the Sherlock Holmes stories were first published, street numbers in Baker Street did not go as high as 221. The section north of Marylebone Road near Regent's Park – now including 221 Baker Street – was known in Doyle's lifetime as Upper Baker Street. In his first manuscript, Doyle put Holmes's house in Upper Baker Street.
In the animated sci-fi television series Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001), a trio of children aid Holmes as the new Baker Street Irregulars, and are even led by a boy named Wiggins. [12] A BBC television film titled Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars aired in 2007. [13]
The book also offers one of the earliest versions of Sherlock Holmes meeting Jack the Ripper. [9] Five years later in 1967, Baring-Gould would go on to publish The Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which would also be considered definitive, [10] [11] at least until Leslie S. Klinger published The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes in 2004–2005.
It is the world's first museum dedicated to the literary character Sherlock Holmes. It opened in 1990 and is situated on Baker Street, bearing the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminster, [1] although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, [2] near the north end of Baker Street in central London close to Regent's Park. [3] [4]
The Baker Street Boys is a British television series made by the BBC and first shown in 1983. [1] The series recounts the adventures of a gang of street urchins living in Victorian London who assist the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes in solving crimes and find themselves tackling cases of their own.
1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns, or Sherlock Holmes Returns! In The Adventure of the Tiger's Revenge [ 1 ] and sometimes shortened to just Sherlock Holmes Returns , is a 1993 American television movie about the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes , starring Anthony Higgins as Holmes. [ 2 ]
Loosely based on the 1891 Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle with elements of "The Final Problem" and "The Empty House" as well, it is set in and around London in 1897, the year in which England celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (an event marked by an elaborate royal procession depicted by Bil Baird's marionettes).
In the 1990s, Caliber Comics issued a four-part Sherlock Holmes Reader which features quotes from Holmes, a map of 221-B Baker Street, and canon story adaptations [12] as well as individual stories such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes [12] and The Sussex Vampire. [13] 2009 brought the Black House Comics series The Dark Detective: Sherlock Holmes. [14]