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Nightmare: The Birth of Horror: The Hound of the Baskervilles

on BBC One London

Concluding the exploration of 19th-century literary horror classics.

Professor Christopher Frayling searches Dartmoor for the origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective story and reveals how the tale may not have been his at all. With John Nettles as Sherlock Holmes.
(The Hound of the Baskervilles follows at 1.05am)

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor Christopher Frayling
Director/Series Producer:
Derek Towers
Sherlock Holmes:
John Nettles

BBC One London

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