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Sherlock Holmes

Tue, Apr 24, 1984
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Mystery
Series · Synopsis

Synopsis

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

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Cast

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  • Jeremy Brett
    Jeremy Brett
    as Sherlock Holmes
  • Edward Hardwicke
    Edward Hardwicke
    as Dr. John H. Watson
  • Rosalie Williams
    Rosalie Williams
    as Mrs. Hudson
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Episodes

4 seasons · 41 episodes

Ended · 41 aired
Season 1
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    A Scandal in Bohemia
    Aired · Tue, Apr 24, 1984 · 60m

    Sherlock Holmes finds himself evenly matched when he is employed by the King of Bohemia to retrieve an indiscreet photograph from the American actress and singer, Irene Adler.

  • E2
    The Dancing Men
    Aired · Tue, May 1, 1984 · 60m

    A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.

  • E3
    The Naval Treaty
    Aired · Tue, May 8, 1984 · 60m

    An unknown thief steals an important naval treaty from a Foreign Office clerk. Sherlock Holmes sets out to find it.

  • E4
    The Solitary Cyclist
    Aired · Tue, May 15, 1984 · 60m

    A strange man on a bicycle follows a young music teacher as she bicycles on a lonely road to and from the city.

  • E5
    The Crooked Man
    Aired · Tue, May 22, 1984 · 60m

    Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.

  • E6
    The Speckled Band
    Aired · Tue, May 29, 1984 · 60m

    A young woman asks for Holmes' help when her ill-tempered stepfather moves her into the same room where her sister died under mysterious circumstances.

  • E7
    The Blue Carbuncle
    Aired · Tue, Jun 5, 1984 · 60m

    When the Countess of Morcar's priceless blue carbuncle is stolen, a reformed thief is charged with the crime.

  • E8
    The Copper Beeches
    Aired · Sun, Aug 25, 1985 · 60m

    Mr. Rucastle's odd requirements for governess Violet Hunter alarm her, so she seeks Holmes' advice.

  • E9
    The Greek Interpreter
    Aired · Sun, Sep 1, 1985 · 60m

    An unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.

  • E10
    The Norwood Builder
    Aired · Sun, Sep 8, 1985 · 60m

    When a notorious retired builder is found dead, his recently-named heir is the prime suspect.

  • E11
    The Resident Patient
    Aired · Sun, Sep 15, 1985 · 60m

    A mysterious man sets up a new doctor in a posh practice for a percentage of the doctor's fees.

  • E12
    The Red-Headed League
    Aired · Sun, Sep 22, 1985 · 60m

    What seems at first to be a harmless prank played upon a red-headed man is soon revealed to be much more; a sinister scheme devised by the Napoleon of Crime.

  • E13
    The Final Problem
    Aired · Sun, Sep 29, 1985 · 60m

    Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Moriarty's vengeance.

Season 2
13 episodes · 13 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Empty House
    Aired · Wed, Jul 9, 1986 · 60m

    Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Professor Moriarity three years earlier, Sherlock Holmes returns to England to foil a plot to murder him by a former Moriarity gang member.

  • E2
    The Abbey Grange
    Aired · Wed, Jul 16, 1986 · 60m

    Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker, and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.

  • E3
    The Musgrave Ritual
    Aired · Wed, Jul 23, 1986 · 60m

    An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.

  • E4
    The Second Stain
    Aired · Wed, Jul 30, 1986 · 60m

    Holmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war.

  • E5
    The Man with the Twisted Lip
    Aired · Wed, Aug 6, 1986 · 60m

    Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.

  • E6
    The Priory School
    Aired · Wed, Aug 13, 1986 · 60m

    The headmaster of a prestigious prep school calls on Holmes for help when the ten year old only son of powerful duke disappears.

  • E7
    The Six Napoleons
    Aired · Wed, Aug 20, 1986 · 60m

    Inspector Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of destroying small busts of Napoleon.

  • E8
    The Sign of Four
    Aired · Tue, Dec 29, 1987 · 60m

    The disappearance of a young woman's father, and a mysterious note years later after the strange regular annual delivery of valuable pearls to her, puts Sherlock Holmes on the case.

  • E9
    The Devil's Foot
    Aired · Wed, Apr 6, 1988 · 60m

    While convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers.

  • E10
    Silver Blaze
    Aired · Wed, Apr 13, 1988 · 60m

    Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.

  • E11
    Wisteria Lodge
    Aired · Wed, Apr 20, 1988 · 60m

    A bored Holmes eagerly accepts a case involving the disappearance of an amateur Spanish cartographer, as well as his servants, from his rented country lodge.

  • E12
    The Bruce Partington Plans
    Aired · Wed, Apr 27, 1988 · 60m

    Sherlock's brother, Mycroft, enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.

  • E13
    The Hound of the Baskervilles
    Aired · Wed, Aug 31, 1988 · 60m

    When the latest heir to the Baskerville estate seems to be threatened by a family curse, only the master detective, Sherlock Holmes, can find out the truth.

Season 3
9 episodes · 9 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
    Aired · Thu, Feb 21, 1991 · 60m

    Holmes must save a suffragette after Watson meets her and notices she is troubled by a mysterious bearded man.

  • E2
    The Problem of Thor Bridge
    Aired · Thu, Feb 28, 1991 · 60m

    A governess is arrested for the murder of her employer's wife.

  • E3
    Shoscombe Old Place
    Aired · Thu, Mar 7, 1991 · 60m

    The horse trainer of a debt-ridden aristocrat consults Holmes about his employer's behaviour.

  • E4
    The Boscombe Valley Mystery
    Aired · Thu, Mar 14, 1991 · 60m

    When William McCarthy is found dead, the son with whom he had just quarreled is charged with murder.

  • E5
    The Illustrious Client
    Aired · Thu, Mar 21, 1991 · 60m

    Sir James Damery asks Holmes to stop a general's daughter from marrying a philandering, but seductively attractive, murderer.

  • E6
    The Creeping Man
    Aired · Thu, Mar 28, 1991 · 60m

    Holmes thinks a woman's claim to have seen a man at her upstairs bedroom window is related to the theft of several apes.

  • E7
    The Master Blackmailer
    Aired · Thu, Jan 2, 1992 · 132m

    Holmes and Watson attempt to break the grip of a ruthless blackmailer on of their clients.

  • E8
    The Last Vampyre
    Aired · Wed, Jan 27, 1993 · 60m

    Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of deaths which seem to be related to John Stockton, who is rumoured to be descended from a family of vampires.

  • E9
    The Eligible Bachelor
    Aired · Wed, Feb 10, 1993 · 60m

    Holmes suffers from disturbing dreams as he helps to find the missing wife of Lord Robert St. Simon.

Season 4
6 episodes · 6 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Three Gables
    Aired · Mon, Mar 7, 1994 · 60m

    After her grandson's death, an old woman consults Holmes, after refusing a strange offer to buy her house including all its contents.

  • E2
    The Dying Detective
    Aired · Mon, Mar 14, 1994 · 60m

    A man dies of a mysterious tropical disease on which his cousin, his heir, is the sole authority.

  • E3
    The Golden Pince-Nez
    Aired · Mon, Mar 21, 1994 · 60m

    Holmes and Mycroft investigate the murder of a professor's assistant who died clutching a woman's pince-nez.

  • E4
    The Red Circle
    Aired · Mon, Mar 28, 1994 · 60m

    Mrs. Hudson asks Holmes to help her friend with a lodger who insists on nobody entering his room, and his secret past is uncovered.

  • E5
    The Mazarin Stone
    Aired · Mon, Apr 4, 1994 · 60m

    Mycroft investigates when the Mazarin Stone is stolen from a museum, and Watson deals with the promise of a large inheritance if a third person with the surname of Garrideb can be found.

  • E6
    The Cardboard Box
    Aired · Mon, Apr 11, 1994 · 60m

    Susan Cushing asks Holmes' help in solving the disappearance of her sister Mary Browner, but it doesn't seem Holmes' type of case until he is told of a Christmas present's grisly contents.