Japanese name:	Meitantei Holmes
Japanese name:	名探偵ホームズ
English name:	Famous Detective Holmes; Sherlock Hound
French name:	Sherlock Holmes
German name:	Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes
Italian name:	Il fiuto di Sherlock Holmes
Dates:	November 26, 1984-May 20, 1985 November 1984 (Italy)
Broadcast time:	Tuesday, 19:00-19:30 (7:00-7:30 pm)
Number of episodes:	26
Animation Studio:	Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS)
Production Company:	Tokyo Movie Shinsha, Rever (Italy), RAI (Italy)
Broadcaster:	Asahi National Broadcasting (ANB) RAI (Italy)
Creator(s):	Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes short story series), Marco Pagot, Gi Pagot
Series Director:	Hayao Miyazaki, Kyôsuke Mikuriya
Episode Director(s):	Keiji Hayakawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Kyosuke Mikuriya
Producer(s):	Yutaka Fujioka (executive), Luciano Scaffa (executive), Yoshimitsu Takahashi
Planning:	Keishi Yamazaki (series composition), Mayumi Shimazaki (series composition)
Storyboard(s):	Seiji Okuda, Keiji Hayakawa, Hayao Miyazaki
Layout:
Writer(s):	Yoshihisa Araki, Hayao Miyazaki, Sunao Katabuchi
Art Director:	Nizô Yamamoto, Jin Kageyama
Art Design:
Character Designer(s):	Gi Pagot, Marco Pagot, Tsukasa Tannai, Yoshifumi Kondo
Animator(s):	Tsukasa Tannai (director), Shojuro Yamauchi (director), Yoshifumi Kondo (director)
Backgrounds:
Music:	Kentaro Haneda
Sound:
Voice Actors (regular characters):	Characters Japanese Italian Sherlock Holmes Taichirou Hirokawa Elio Pandolfi Dr. John Watson Kosei Tomita Riccardo Garrone Mrs. Hudson Yoko Asagami Cristina Grado Lestrade Enzo Consoli Professor Moriarty Chikao Ohtsuka Mauro Bosco
Genre(s):	adventure, comedy, crime, private detectives, animal characters
Home Video information:	Japan: DVD (PIBA 3020) United States: DVD (Pioneer 11720-11725)
Note(s):	Although this series is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series' characters it doesn't have adaptations of his stories. This series was broadcast in Italy before it was broadcast in Japan. The Italian version is actually longer than the Japanese which had to be shortened to fit into Japanese scheduling constraints. The series was made in two stages because early during its original production there were objections from the Doyle estate. When production was resumed two years later Hayao Miyazaki was no longer avaiable to work on it. To see what other animated programs were out at the same time as Meitantei Holmes go to the Chronology of Animation
Note on finding copies of programs:	Unfortunately I lack the time or resources to help people find copies of anime television programs. I have put together a web List of Online Video and Book Stores that will be useful to find copies in the United States, some other countries, and one Japanese store. There are other similar stores on the Internet around the world that might be able to supply the DVDs, LDs, VCDs, or video tapes that are desired. Check my Japanese Animation Information page for links to Internet resources that may have further information. I am not involved in trading materials from my own collection. I am still waiting to see most of the programs in this List of Anime Television Series and would be happy to find sources for many of them. Because of these circumstances I will not respond to requests for help to find these types of materials.

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