Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson - The Treasures of Agra (1983)

Between 1979 and 1986 a series of Sherlock Holmes TV-movies were made for Soviet television. They were hugely popular in Russia (they triggered a real Holmes craze there) and well received internationally. Vasily Livanov starred as as Sherlock Holmes with Vitaly Solomin as Dr Watson. The 1983 two-part fourth film, The Treasures of Agra ( Sokrovishcha Agry ), adapted both the 1890 novel The Sign of…