Basil of Baker Street Gaming Miniature

One of the best ways to waste time online is found at a website called Hero Forge, where you can design your own gaming miniatures. The choices are so varied, that I was able to design this Basil of Baker Street figure from Disney's The Great Mouse Detective. The gaming is afoot!

Great Mouse Detective Size Chart

Disney animators used this chart to gauge the relative heights of the characters:

The actual art is large; you can get a better look at it here.

The Fence of Doors

A homeowner in Vashon, Washington created a unique fence comprised of replicas of famous doors from stage, screen, and literature. You can see a Hobbit door, the entrance to the Twilight Zone, and the dear remembered door at 221 B Baker Street, to name a few. More...

Great Mouse Detective Crew

Revisit the talented crew who brought The Great Mouse Detective to the screen back in 1986.

Happy 32nd Anniversary to The Great Mouse Detective

It was 32 years ago this date when Disney released their 26th animated feature. Happy birthday to Basil of Baker Street!

Basil of Baker Street Sightings

We hear of Basil everywhere these days. Though based in Baker Street, Disney's Great Mouse Detective certainly gets around. Below is a report of various sightings of characters from Disney's The Great Mouse Detective in other films, television series, and anywhere else they may have been spotted.

Darkwing Duck, 1991
Many episodes showed a Basil statue in Drake Mallard's home

Walt Disney World Happy Easter Parade, 1991
Basil and Ratigan were the Grand Marshalls

Baker Street Journal
The comic strip column "Art In the Blood" by Scott Bond gave us this Basil in an unknown issue. More...

The Pins That Never Were

Artist Mike Royko made these drawings for a series of trading pins for Disney's The Great Mouse Detective. Sadly, the pins were never produced. But fans can still enjoy the artwork and dreams of what might have been.

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NOT the Great Mouse Detective

There's only one Basil of Baker Street, Disney's Great Mouse Detective. The following impostors have each been labelled at one time or another as Basil. But it doesn't take a genius to see that these are definitely NOT him.

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The Great Mouse Detective on IMDB

The Internet Movie Data Base is a wonderful online resource for movie information, but its changeable nature makes it necessary to record the content of its plot synopsis for The Great Mouse Detective, as written by Whatsits Galore, here for posterity.

The year is 1897. The place is London. The setting is not our world, but the world of England's mouse population, who live lives not so different from ours, in the mouse holes and basements of the British Empire.

Hiram Flaversham, a master toymaker, is kidnapped on his daughter Olivia's birthday. The young girl has no one to turn to for help, so she strikes out on her own, seeking the greatest detective in all mousedom, Basil of Baker Street. More...

Great Mouse Detective Newspaper Strip

In 1986, to advertise the premiere of The Great Mouse Detective, Disney published weekly syndicated comic strips that told the story:

Unfortunately, a few chapters are missing. More...

The Off The Record Guide to Disney's Great Mouse Detective

If you spend much time searching the Amazon website, you may have come across this volume. On the surface, the Off the Record Guide to Walt Disney's Great Mouse Detective sounds fantastic! A book about the making of this film is long overdue and would be welcomed with open arms and wallets. But let's take a closer look.

We suspected this book was bogus from the start, but as a cataloguer and reviewer of Great Mouse Detective merchandise, we thought it was necessary to see it with our own eyes, if only to inform the public. More...

Barrie Ingham 1932-2015

It is with a heavy heart that that I take up my pen to write these unhappy words: actor Barrie Ingham, best known to Disney fans as the voice of Basil of Baker Street, has passed away at the age of 82. As the voice of Disney's Great Mouse Detective, he always had and always will have a special place in my heart. When I think that the former powers-that-be at Disney almost re-dubbed that perfect voice with an American actor, I shudder uncontrollably.

His career was long and distinguished, but some highlights include A Challenge for Robin Hood, Dr. Who, Camelot, Star Trek, and Jekyll & Hyde, the Musical. To me, though, he will forever be Basil.

Thank you, sir, for your undying contribution to animation history. You will be missed.

Sherlock Holmes Comic Strip

This Sherlock Holmes comic strip, which appeared in Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters, is far too entertaining to be forgotten. Not only is it witty, but the artwork is delightful, giving us a charming and humorous look at the sleuth of Baker Street. More...

Great Mouse Detective Pre-Production Art: Queen Mousetoria

Andreas Deja, one of Disney's Nine Young Men, published this early design of the Queen from The Great Mouse Detective on his blog Deja View. His concept is based more on Queen Victoria than the final design.

How to Draw Basil's Sidekick Dr. Dawson

Animators used copious notes to keep Doctor Dawson in Disney's The Great Mouse Detective on model. Here are the drawings with instructions circulated among the animators of that Disney classic. More...

Basil of Baker Street Stickers by Panini

Made by Panini in Europe, these stickers and album re-tell the story of the Disney animated classic. Part of the Great Mouse Detective collection More...

Disney Drawing Tips: Basil of Baker Street

View the notes used by actual animators to keep the character of Basil "on model" in The Great Mouse Detective More...

Basil's Sitting Room Blueprints

The floor plan of the sitting room of Basil of Baker Street, Disney's Great Mouse Detective.

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Vintage Great Mouse Detective PC game

Here are some screen shots from the vintage Great Mouse Detective PC game:

Basil's Disguises

Here we have Basil of Baker Street from Disney's Great Mouse Detective dressed as Aladdin. More...