Beginning in 2005, Anthony Read has successfully adapted the series into a set of children's novels, currently numbering six volumes.
Hubert Rees (Dr. Watson) and Colin Jeavons (Professor Moriarty) both played Inspector Lestrade in other Sherlock Holmes adaptations: Rees in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982) and Jeavons in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) and The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1991).