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It’s customary to refer to the Third Doctor and the Master as being a rivalry inspired by or based on that of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty. This is absolutely correct, but what is incorrect is the attempts by some fans and the then-production team to imply it’s the literary version of Sherlock Holmes which is their inspiration. Nothing could be further from the truth.
From the beak nosed protagonist to the criminal mastermind who uses hypnotism and grisly murder methods, to the B-Movie stories and the teaming up with other enemies, the UNIT era is firmly based on and set in the kind of B-Movie universe as the BASIL RATHBONE Sherlock Holmes film series…
Doctor Who (Third Doctor) + Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes = DOCTOR HOLMES.
Exiled to Earth after a long distinguished career ending in a long espionage adventure in World War 1 (His Last War Games), The Doctor adopts the persona of a consulting detective and chooses some Bland pseudonym under which to operate from his surprisingly spacious rooms at 221 B Baker Street in London. After his initial successes draw attention, a well meaning somewhat comedic medical student called Jo Watson uses her uncle’s influence to have her assigned semi-permanently to Doctor Holmes as his lab assistant.
Due to Doctor Holmes originally being a Victorian and then a World War 1 era character, the adventures of the Great Detective in the 1940s have engendered what is known as the “Special UNIT Dating Controversy” which has made creating an accurate timeline of his adventures involving Inspector Lethbridge-Stewart impossible…
Frequently called in by Inspector Lethbridge-Stewart of Scotland Yard’s Special UNIT on their most baffling cases, Doctor Holmes and Jo Watson have the following recorded adventures:
Hound of the Peladons
In the mining district of Yorkshire, Doctor Holmes and Jo Watson must solve a baffling series of murders apparently committed by the dog-like heraldic monster of the ancient Peladon family…
The Adventures in Time and Space of Doctor Holmes
After his arch nemesis Master Moriarty is acquitted of a grisly murder for which everyone knows he is responsible, Doctor Holmes and Master Moriarty engage in a battle of wits across London culminating in a staggering plot involving the Crown Jewels of Rassilon…
Death to the Dazis
The Dazis, fascist rulers of central Europe enslaved by their Fuhrer Adolf Davros, have begun World War 2. In this exciting adventure Doctor Holmes aided by the well meaning Jo Watson must help British woman Kitty Shaw carry on her murdered husband’s spy work and defeat the Dazi spies planning an invasion of England! The Dazis are led by a mysterious agent known only as the Voice of the Terror of the Autons!
Doctor Holmes and the Colony in Switzerland
Called on to help the British war effort once more, Doctor Holmes and Jo Watson bring a Swiss inventor to England so his Secret Doomsday Weapon can be used against the Dazis and their allies. After the scientist goes missing, Doctor Holmes must race against time as both he and Master Moriarty try and solve the puzzle the scientist has left behind…
The Three Doctors in Washington
As World War 2 hots up, Doctor Holmes together with Jo Watson is called upon to travel to Washington DC to find a missing top secret document stolen from the Time Detectives’ files in Gallifrey, Ireland. Joining him are two earlier incarnations of Doctor Holmes- from World War 1 and the Victorian Era! All to stop the planetary spanning power of Dazi agent Omega!
Doctor Holmes Face Daemons
Called to solve a series of murders in an idyllic English village, it soon emerges that the local archaeological dig is exposing something much more sinister than the ancient Musgrave Ritual…
Planet of the Spider Woman
Forced to fake his own death and “regeneration”, Doctor Holmes wears blackface to take down the murderous Spider Woman, who is killing gamblers for their life insurance, inspired by the Great One, an equally murderous giant spider from beyond the stars who sends the Spider Woman her Metebelis Spiders to use as the perfect assassination weapon…
The Scarlet Claws of Axos
An incredibly gifted master of disguise pretends to be a red-glowing monster from out of space to carry out a spate of revenge killings…
The Pearl of Evil
A brilliant thief engineers the theft of a priceless pearl whilst he is incarcerated within Stangmoor Prison…
Doctor Holmes and the House of the Dinosaurs
In a house occupied by the League of Good Archaeologists (a men’s club dedicated to ushering in a new Golden Age), some sinister force is killing the occupants one by one. Doctor Holmes and Jo Watson become guests in the house to see if the murders really are being committed by the ghosts of dinosaurs… Or by something even more incredible…
The Woman in Green Death
A series of grisly murders where the victims, all women, are found butchered, with glowing green veins and a finger removed, are part of an epic scheme by Master Moriarty involving blackmail and a plot to contaminate the mining district of Wales…
The Frontier in Algiers / Planet of the Dazis
The culmination of his struggles against his most hated foe, Doctor Holmes and Jo Watson escort the King of Draconia back to his homeland by cruise ship whilst the enemy uses a series of hypnotic attacks and sends killers from the tiny Balkans nation of Ogronia after them. Finally in the frozen mountains of Draconia the Dazis are defeated once and for all… OR ARE THEY..?
Terror of the Autons by Night
Alien jewel thieves use their affinity for bakelite and their absolute control over formica to steal the jewel known as the Control Sphere of Rhodesia. Doctor Holmes must use all his wits to defeat the Auton Gang and their ingenious leader, Nestene Moran…
Dressed to Kill the Time Monster
“Stinky” Minelli, a school friend of Jo Watson, turns up with a strange story of cheap musical jewellery boxes manufactured in Stangmoor Prison being stolen. When Minellis the next to be murdered, Doctor Holmes and Jo Watson must leap into action to stop a complex plan by Master Moriarty and a group of crazed theosophist counterfeiters from freeing “Five Bob” Kronos from his cell in the maximum security wing of Stangmoor…
