Episode guide
Sherlock Holmes: Series 1
13 episodes · first aired May 17, 1964
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- 1 The Speckled Band May 17, 1964 · 50m Helen Stoner needs the great man's help. She lives in a country mansion with her flamboyant and sinister guardian Grimesby Raylott, who has travelled abroad and brought home some souvenir…
- 2 The Illustrious Client Feb 19, 1965 · 50m Sir James Damery, acting for a very illustrious client, consults Holmes. Violet Merville is engaged to marry the Austrian Baron Gruner, who has murdered at least one wife and yet the…
- 3 The Devil's Foot Feb 26, 1965 · 50m Whilst in Cornwall Holmes is approached by the local vicar to determine how Brenda Tregennis died whilst sitting in a room, playing cards with her two brothers, who were struck down with…
- 4 The Copper Beeches Mar 5, 1965 · 50m Violet Hunter visits Sherlock Holmes for advice on whether she should accept a unique governess job with a substantial initial salary of £100 a year, on the condition that she cut her hair…
- 5 The Red-Headed League Mar 12, 1965 · 50m Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. While studying this prospective client, both Holmes and Watson notice his red hair. Wilson tells them…
- 6 The Abbey Grange Mar 19, 1965 · 50m Douglas Wilmer reads part one of this reconstructed episode. Sherlock Holmes wakes up Dr. Watson early one winter morning to rush to a murder scene at the Abbey Grange near Chislehurst…
- 7 The Six Napoleons Mar 26, 1965 · 50m Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a mysterious problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napoleon. One was shattered in Morse Hudson's shop, and two others, sold by…
- 8 The Man with the Twisted Lip Apr 2, 1965 · 50m A friend of Dr. Watson's wife comes to Watson's house, frantic because her husband, Isa Whitney, an opium addict, has gone missing. Watson helps her pull him out of the opium den and sends…
- 9 The Beryl Coronet Apr 9, 1965 · 50m A Streatham banker named Mr Alexander Holder makes a loan of £50,000 to a client from one of the "highest, noblest, most exalted names in England," implied to be a member of the British…
- 10 The Bruce-Partington Plans Apr 16, 1965 · 50m First half; second half soundtrack only. The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Holmes' brother Mycroft. He has come about some missing, secret…
- 11 Charles Augustus Milverton Apr 23, 1965 · 50m Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his…
- 12 The Retired Colourman Apr 30, 1965 · 50m Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look into his young wife's disappearance. She has left with a neighbour, Dr Ray Ernest, taking a…
- 13 The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax May 7, 1965 · 50m Sherlock Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too busy in London. Lady Frances is a lone, unwed woman denied a rich…