Series 1 poster

Series 1

(1964)

Cast

Douglas Wilmer as Sherlock Holmes
Douglas Wilmer

as Sherlock Holmes

Nigel Stock as Dr. Watson
Nigel Stock

as Dr. Watson

Episodes

The Speckled Band poster

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May 17, 1964

Helen Stoner needs the great man's help. She lives in a country mansion with her flamboyant and sinister guardian Grime…

The Illustrious Client poster

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February 19, 1965

Sir James Damery, acting for a very illustrious client, consults Holmes. Violet Merville is engaged to marry the Austri…

The Devil's Foot poster

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February 26, 1965

Whilst in Cornwall Holmes is approached by the local vicar to determine how Brenda Tregennis died whilst sitting in a r…

The Copper Beeches poster

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March 5, 1965

Violet Hunter visits Sherlock Holmes for advice on whether she should accept a unique governess job with a substantial …

The Red-Headed League poster

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March 12, 1965

Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker, comes to consult Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. While studying this prospective …

The Abbey Grange poster

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March 19, 1965

Douglas Wilmer reads part one of this reconstructed episode. Sherlock Holmes wakes up Dr. Watson early one winter morni…

The Six Napoleons poster

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March 26, 1965

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard brings Holmes a mysterious problem about a man who shatters plaster busts of Napole…

The Man with the Twisted Lip poster

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April 2, 1965

A friend of Dr. Watson's wife comes to Watson's house, frantic because her husband, Isa Whitney, an opium addict, has g…

The Beryl Coronet poster

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April 9, 1965

A Streatham banker named Mr Alexander Holder makes a loan of £50,000 to a client from one of the "highest, noblest, mos…

The Bruce-Partington Plans poster

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April 16, 1965

First half; second half soundtrack only. The monotony of thick smog-shrouded London is broken by a sudden visit from Ho…

Charles Augustus Milverton poster

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April 23, 1965

Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who…

The Retired Colourman poster

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April 30, 1965

Sherlock Holmes is hired by a retired art supply dealer from Lewisham, Josiah Amberley, to look into his young wife's d…

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax poster

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May 7, 1965

Sherlock Holmes sends Dr. Watson to Lausanne to investigate Lady Frances Carfax's disappearance since he himself is too…