COLLECTION · Series · 1964
Sherlock Holmes
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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* 6.7 (18)CrimeDramaMysteryUnited Kingdom
Countries
United Kingdom
Studios
BBC One · BBC
Runtime
50 min/ep
Release
17/05/1964
Score
6.7 / 10 (18)
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Seasons and episodes
Series 1
13 episodes · 1964
Episode 1. The Speckled Band
1964-05-17 · 50 min
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 livestock. Recently her sister Julia, about to be…
Episode 2. The Illustrious Client
1965-02-19 · 50 min
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 foolish, headstrong Violet will not hear a word against…
Episode 3. The Devil's Foot
1965-02-26 · 50 min
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 dementia as a result. The trail leads to an African…
Episode 4. The Copper Beeches
1965-03-05 · 50 min
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 short, among other strange provisos. When she…
Episode 5. The Red-Headed League
1965-03-12 · 50 min
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 that some weeks before, his young assistant…
Episode 6. The Abbey Grange
1965-03-19 · 50 min
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, Kent. Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been killed,…
Episode 7. The Six Napoleons
1965-03-26 · 50 min
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 Hudson to a Dr. Barnicot, were smashed after the…
Episode 8. The Man with the Twisted Lip
1965-04-02 · 50 min
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 him home. Watson is surprised to find that…
Episode 9. The Beryl Coronet
1965-04-09 · 50 min
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 Royal Family and, thus, a son of Queen Victoria and…
Episode 10. The Bruce-Partington Plans
1965-04-16 · 50 min
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 submarine plans. Seven of the ten plans have been found…
Episode 11. Charles Augustus Milverton
1965-04-23 · 50 min
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 career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers".…
Episode 12. The Retired Colourman
1965-04-30 · 50 min
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 sizeable quantity of cash and securities. Amberley…
Episode 13. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
1965-05-07 · 50 min
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 inheritance on account of her sex. She does,…
Series 2
16 episodes · 1968
Peter Cushing replaces Douglas Wilmer as Holmes. This series was produced in colour, but only 6 of the 16 episodes survive.
Episode 1. The Second Stain
1968-09-08 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 2. The Dancing Men
1968-09-15 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 3. A Study in Scarlet
1968-09-22 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 4. The Hound of the Baskervilles: Part 1
1968-09-29 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 5. The Hound of the Baskervilles: Part 2
1968-10-06 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 6. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
1968-10-13 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 7. The Greek Interpreter
1968-10-20 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 8. The Naval Treaty
1968-10-27 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 9. Thor Bridge
1968-11-03 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 10. The Musgrave Ritual
1968-11-10 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 11. Black Peter
1968-11-17 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 12. Wisteria Lodge
1968-11-24 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 13. Shoscombe Old Place
1968-12-01 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 14. The Solitary Cyclist
1968-12-08 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 15. The Sign of Four
1968-12-15 · 50 min
No synopsis
Episode 16. The Blue Carbuncle
1968-12-22 · 50 min
No synopsis
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Keywords
detectivebased on novel or booksherlock holmes
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