Before Basil Rathbone, there was William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes; see for yourself on Saturday, March 7

A poster promoting the 1916 release of 'Sherlock Holmes' starring William Gillette. One of the first times I got to stay up late was in junior high, when I got in the habit of watching Sherlock Holmes movies that Channel 38 in Boston showed on Saturday nights starting at 11:30 p.m. They would run one of the Universal series of pictures from the late 1930s into the 1940s starring Basil Rathbone as…