The Basics: Meet Basil of Baker Street, the 19th-century rodent sleuth, whose skills at sniffing out a mystery surpasses even Sherlock Holmes himself The Nugget: When her father is rat-napped by the ...

Basil, Dawson and Flavershap give chase in a makeshift craft made from helium balloons and a Union Flag. At Fidget’s suggestion, Ratigan lightens the load by hurling him over the side into the Thames, ...

New chapters of Mouse in Transition are published weekly on Cartoon Brew. It is the story of Disney Feature Animation—from the Nine Old Men to the coming of Jeffrey Katzenberg. Ten lost years of Walt ...

“The Great Mouse Detective” manages to mix literature, science and science fiction in a late 1800s setting. This Disney animated film, released in 1986, is a take-off on Sherlock Holmes and told from ...

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Here’s Disney’s description of the animated classic: “The clues are in, the chase is on, and the case of the century is about to break wide open in Disney’s greatest little mystery in history. Come ...

When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil ...