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Colin Baker back as “Sherlock Holmes” – April 2025 tour dates

By John Freeman on March 18, 2025 • ( 1 )

Crime And Comedy Theatre Company The Hound of the Baskervilles - Poster (2025) starring Colin Baker, Terry Molloy and Dee Sadler

Renowned stars of stage and screen Colin Baker (Doctor Who) and Terry Molloy (Mike Tucker in The Archers for 40 years) are back playing the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, and companion, Doctor Watson, in The Hound of the Baskervilles, for a 2025 tour. The tour opens at The Ffwrnes, Llanelli on 7th April, continuing at various theatres through the month, including The Old Laundry in Bowness-on-Windermere, closing at Malthouse, Canterbury on 18th April.

The Old Laundry dates include a special “Evening With The Cast” event.

Alongside Dee Sadler (All Creatures Great & Small, No Place Like Home), they star in a brand new stage adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, originally on tour to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most popular thriller – and now extended by popular demand.

The legend of the Hound Of The Baskervilles has haunted the Baskerville family for generations – none more so than Sir Charles Baskerville, who died in mysterious circumstances worthy of the legend. This leads Doctor Mortimer to consult Sherlock Holmes & Doctor Watson, in the hope of preventing the heir to the Baskerville estate, Sir Henry, from suffering the same fate. But the supernatural seems a very long way from 221B Baker Street…

However, once Holmes and Watson journey to isolated Baskerville Hall, the line between reality and the legend becomes blurred. Death, doom and myth surround them – what is the secret of the butler in the night, whose is the mysterious lantern that shines in the darkness, and what hellish apparition stalks Dartmoor with murderous intent?

Presented by Crime And Comedy Theatre Company as a radio-play-live-on-stage – our setting is a radio studio, our actors ready as if for a radio broadcast, and our sound effects created live on stage, all combining to transport the audience from Baker Street to Dartmoor, as we bring to life this tale of murder, mystery and horror that’s surely the greatest detective story ever told! A rare chance to see these popular actors live at your local theatre, this is a play not to be missed.

The Hound of the Baskervilles – 2025 Tour Dates

7th April – The Ffwrnes, Llanelli – 0345 2263510 – theatrausirgar.co.uk

8th April – Regal, Tenbury Wells – 01584 811442 – regaltenbury.co.uk

9th, 10th April – The Old Laundry, Bowness-on-Windermere – 015394 40872 – oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk

11th Apr – An Evening With The Cast Of The Hound Of The Baskervilles
The Old Laundry, Bowness-on-Windermere – 015394 40872 – oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk

12th April – The Old Laundry, Bowness-on-Windermere – 015394 40872 – oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk

14th April – MMC Venue, Leicester – 0116 2304877 – mmcvenue.co.uk

15th April – Edge Arts Centre, Much Wenlock – 01952 728911 – edgeartscentre.com

16th April – Watersmeet, Rickmansworth – 01923 711063 – watersmeet.co.uk

17th April – Forum Theatre Malvern – 01684 892277 – malvern-theatres.co.uk

18th April – Malthouse, Canterbury – 01227 287234 – malthousetheatre.co.uk

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.