Sherlock Hound
| Sherlock Hound | |
Blu-ray Disk cover of Famous Detective Holmes
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名探偵ホームズ (Meitantei Hōmuzu) |
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| Genre | Detective fiction, Comedy |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by |
Hayao Miyazaki Kyosuke Mikuriya |
| Produced by | Yoshimitsu Takahashi |
| Written by | Hayao Miyazaki Marco Pagot Gi Pagot |
| Music by | Kentarō Haneda |
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Tokyo Movie Shinsha R.A.I. |
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| Original network |
TV Asahi (Japan) Rai 1 (Italy) |
| English network | |
| Original run | November 6, 1984 – May 21, 1985 |
| Episodes | 26 |
Sherlock Hound (名探偵ホームズ Meitantei Hōmuzu?, lit. "Detective Holmes") is an Italian-Japanese animated television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series where almost all the characters are depicted as anthropomorphic dogs. The show featured regular appearances of Jules Verne-steampunk style technology, adding a 19th-century science-fiction atmosphere to the series. It consists of 26 episodes aired between 1984 and 1985.
The series was a joint project between Japan's Tokyo Movie Shinsha and the Italian public broadcasting corporation RAI. Six episodes were directed by Hayao Miyazaki in 1981 until problems with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate led to a suspension in production. By the time the issues were resolved Miyazaki had turned to other projects, and thus the remaining episodes were directed by Kyosuke Mikuriya. The show was finally aired in 1984. The same year a film version edited together of two of the episodes directed by Miyazaki (The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle and Treasure Under the Sea) was released alongside Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in Japanese theaters, entitled Meitantei Hōmuzu Gekijouban.
Two pieces of theme music are used for the Japanese version: The opening theme is "Sora Kara Koboreta Story" (lit. "Story Spilled From the Sky") and the ending theme is "Thames Gawa no Dance" (lit. "Dance of the Thames River"), both performed by the Japanese duo, Da Capo. The series' international versions had a single piece of theme music for the opening and ending credits. The frequent soloists are Joe Farrell on soprano, tenor and alto saxophones and flute (in his final recording) and Milt Jackson on vibes. This English theme does not exist on the UK DVD's from Manga, instead instrumentals of both the Japanese opening and ending themes were used.
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