Directed by Kevin Conner (Motel Hell, The House Where Evil Dwells) and written by Bob Shayne, this made for TV movie feels a little bit like Adam Adamant Lives! Or for those that don't obsess over 1960s British TV shows Austin Powers.
Sherlock Holmes (Michael Pennington) has been taken out of cryogenic sleep by Watson's ancestor Jane Watson (Margaret Colin), who is a private detective in Boston. He was infected by the bubonic plague by his enemy Moriarty and frozen until a cure could be found.
Using the alias Holmes Sigerson, the detective works with Watson to help her solve her cases. Holmes falls for Violet (Connie Booth), the daughter of a man killed in an FBI robbery, while Watson and an agent named Tobias (Nicholas Guest) have some glances between each other. This was a pilot for a series that was never picked up, so one assumes that Holmes and Watson would have ended up together if the show was ever a longer series. There's a fun little Murder, She Wrote cameo as one of the characters is reading a book by Jessica Fletcher.
Shayne also wrote the TV movies Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady, which starred Christopher Lee as Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Watson, along with Morgan Fairchild and Engelbert Humperdinck, as well as a sequel to that TV movie, Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls. He also created the show Whiz Kids and wrote episodes of the show Legend, in which author Ernest Pratt (Richard Dean Anderson) plays the hero of his books, Nicodemus Legend, with the help of his friend Professor Janos Bartok (John de Lancie).
Sherlock Holmes (Michael Pennington) has been taken out of cryogenic sleep by Watson's ancestor Jane Watson (Margaret Colin), who is a private detective in Boston. He was infected by the bubonic plague by his enemy Moriarty and frozen until a cure could be found.
Using the alias Holmes Sigerson, the detective works with Watson to help her solve her cases. Holmes falls for Violet (Connie Booth), the daughter of a man killed in an FBI robbery, while Watson and an agent named Tobias (Nicholas Guest) have some glances between each other. This was a pilot for a series that was never picked up, so one assumes that Holmes and Watson would have ended up together if the show was ever a longer series. There's a fun little Murder, She Wrote cameo as one of the characters is reading a book by Jessica Fletcher.
Shayne also wrote the TV movies Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady, which starred Christopher Lee as Holmes and Patrick Macnee as Watson, along with Morgan Fairchild and Engelbert Humperdinck, as well as a sequel to that TV movie, Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls. He also created the show Whiz Kids and wrote episodes of the show Legend, in which author Ernest Pratt (Richard Dean Anderson) plays the hero of his books, Nicodemus Legend, with the help of his friend Professor Janos Bartok (John de Lancie).
