Sherlock Holmes was a series of adaptations of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. It was produced by Granada Television and originally broadcast by ITV in the United Kingdom in 1984âÂÂ1994. The series starred Jeremy Brett as Holmes and David Burke (in the Adventures series) and later, Edward Hardwicke, as Dr. Watson. The program was made up of 36 fifty minute standard length episodes (airing in a one-hour timeslot), and five feature-length specials.