Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
TV ShowEnded

Sherlock Holmes

6.6 / 10
1964
2 seasons
29 episodes
MysteryCrimeDrama

Sherlock Holmes (also known as 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes') is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1964 and 1968. This was the second screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes for BBC Television.

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  • The Speckled Band

    1.The Speckled Band

    17-05-196450m

    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 s...

  • The Illustrious Client

    2.The Illustrious Client

    19-02-196550m

    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 t...

  • The Devil's Foot

    3.The Devil's Foot

    26-02-196550m

    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 dow...

  • The Copper Beeches

    4.The Copper Beeches

    05-03-196550m

    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...

  • The Red-Headed League

    5.The Red-Headed League

    12-03-196550m

    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 te...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Abbey Grange

    19-03-196550m

    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 Chisleh...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Six Napoleons

    26-03-196550m

    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,...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Man with the Twisted Lip

    02-04-196550m

    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 a...

  • The Beryl Coronet

    9.The Beryl Coronet

    09-04-196550m

    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 Br...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Bruce-Partington Plans

    16-04-196550m

    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...

  • Ep 11

    11.Charles Augustus Milverton

    23-04-196550m

    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 murderer...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Retired Colourman

    30-04-196550m

    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, t...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

    07-05-196550m

    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...

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