The story is solid - it's treatment proof really, if done faithfully - and it's interested to see Stewart Granger play Holmes. Granger is professional enough, he was still handsome after all these years, but it's a shame he wasn't allowed (or didn't want to access) Holmes' arrogance - Granger was such an arrogant prat at times, I think he could have made a marvellously self-satisfied, egotistical Holmes. He didn't "Stewart Granger" it up enough but plays it way too safe (as he did too often).
This was made by Universal and the treatment is done in that crappy early 70s Universal TV style - ugly photography, laughable paintings to indicate the Baskerville estate, run of the mill sets (Baskerville is all on a sound stage) and music.
Anthony Zerbe adds some dash as the doctor, Bernard Fox is okay as Watson, and William Shatner pretty good as George Stapleton. But everyone is defeated by uninspired, bland handling and this is really only for completists.
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