简介:This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir A rthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown to modern audiences, although all of the detectives portrayed had appeared in popular ongoing series of short stories or novels. "Rivals" featured the only dramatizations to date of such period characters as Jacques Futrelles "The Thinking Machine" and W. H. Hodgsons "Carnacki The Ghost Finder". Production valu…