Hayao Miyazaki directed episodes 3-5 and 9–10, while simultaneously working on the manga and subsequent film adaptation of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984.
The show featured regular appearances of Jules Verne-steampunk style technology, adding a 19th-century science-fiction atmosphere to the series. It is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series where almost all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic dogs. Famous Detective Holmes) is a 26 episode Italian-Japanese animated television series produced by RAI and Tokyo Movie Shinsha, airing from November 6, 1984, to May 20, 1985. Sherlock Holmes’ arch enemy, the criminal genius Professor Moriarty, is back! But the solution to the riddle, found after many surprising twists and high dramas, lies far away, half across the world in a location known as ‘The Valley of Fear’.NovemSherlock Hound (名探偵ホームズ, Meitantei Hōmuzu, lit. It was clear that it had been fired at close range, and that he had received the whole charge in the face, blowing his head almost to pieces”.
The Valley of Fear is a dark, powerful tale, which provides the great detective with a most perplexing case and opens with a vile murder: “Lying across his chest was a most curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawn off in front of the triggers. Is this devilish spectre the manifestation of the family curse? Or is Sir Henry the victim of a vile and scheming murderer? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve this devilish affair. Now the hound seems to be stalking young Sir Henry, the new master of the Baskerville estate. The Baskerville family is haunted by a phantom beast “with blazing eyes and dripping jaws” which roams the mist-enshrouded moors around the isolated Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor. It features the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller.
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies.
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