Incident at Victoria Falls

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Incident at Victoria Falls is the second and final film in the proposed series of television films Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years written by Bob Shayne. It starred Christopher Lee and Patrick Macnee as Holmes and Watson in old age. In the film, Holmes is about to retire to Sussex and keep bees when the king sends him on a mission to South Africa to retrieve the Star of Africa diamond.^[1] Complications arise and Holmes meets several historical characters including ex-President Theodore Roosevelt,^[2] portrayed by Claude Akins, and Lillie Langtry, played by Jenny Seagrove.^[3] He also encounters the fictional character A. J. Raffles.^[4]

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^ Kelley, Gordon E. (1994). Sherlock Holmes. Scarecrow Press. pp. p. 96. ISBN 9780810828599.
^ "Roosevelt, Holmes to join forces". The Washington Times. 25 December 1990. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB0EF144AC0BA53&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
^ Pitts, Michael R. (2004). Famous Movie Detectives III. Scarecrow Press. pp. p. 223. ISBN 9780810836907. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xSmWVsDh8WEC&pg=PA223&dq=%22Incident+at+Victoria+Falls%22+%2Bholmes&num=100&sig=ACfU3U1WPaz1gkKd42Jgej-o1ca9-AbE9Q. Retrieved 2008-09-07.
^ Hardy, Phil (1997). The BFI Companion to Crime. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. p. 173. ISBN 9780304332151. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=agfHUakbj5kC&pg=PA173&dq=%22Incident+at+Victoria+Falls%22+%2Bholmes&num=100&sig=ACfU3U2rWam9jMbhXG_7gbmWMPqUWxe8jw. Retrieved 2008-09-07.

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Screen adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories

Sherlock Holmes Baffled (1900)
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905)
Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes (1910)
A Study in Scarlet (1914)
Der Hund von Baskerville‎ (1914)
The Valley of Fear (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Sherlock Holmes (1922)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
The Sign of Four (1923)

Rathbone-Bruce
series

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Voice of Terror (1942)
Secret Weapon (1943)
Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
The Spider Woman (1944)
The Scarlet Claw (1944)
The Pearl of Death (1944)
House of Fear (1945)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
Terror by Night (1946)
Dressed to Kill (1946)

Maslennikov series

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1980)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981)
The Treasures of Agra (1983)
The Twentieth Century Approaches (1986)

By actor

Clive Brook	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1929) Sherlock Holmes (1932)

Peter Cushing	The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) The Masks of Death (1984)

Christopher Lee	Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) Incident at Victoria Falls (1991) Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992)

Christopher Plummer	Silver Blaze (1977) Murder by Decree (1979)

Ian Richardson	The Sign of Four (1983) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)

Matt Frewer	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) The Sign of Four (2001) The Case of the Whitechapel Vampire (2002) The Royal Scandal (2003)

Ian Hart (as Watson)	The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)

Robert Downey, Jr.	Sherlock Holmes (2009) A Game of Shadows (2011)

Other films

The Speckled Band (1931)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
A Study in Scarlet (1933)
A Study in Terror (1965)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Sherlock Holmes (2010)

Comedies
and parodies

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Without a Clue (1988)
A Samba for Sherlock (2001)
Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010)

Television series

Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Sherlock Holmes (1954)
Sherlock Holmes (1965–1968)
Young Sherlock: The Mystery of the Manor House (1982)
The Baker Street Boys (1983)
Sherlock Hound (1984–1985)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984–1994)
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999–2001)
Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes (2000)
Sherlock (2010–)
Russian Sherlock Holmes (2012-)

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