Sherlock Holmes (1954)

Season 1

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The adventures of master detective Sherlock Holmes as he and his assistant, Dr. Watson--and, somewhat reluctantly, the bumbling Inspector Lestrade--battle criminals in London.

39 Episodes

  • The Case of the Cunningham Heritage
    E1
    The Case of the Cunningham HeritageDr. John Watson meets private detective Sherlock Holmes, and assists him in solving a case that has confused Inspector Lestrade.
  • The Case of Lady Beryl
    E2
    The Case of Lady BerylLady Beryl confesses to a murder that was committed at her home, but Sherlock Holmes is convinced that she is innocent.
  • The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun
    E3
    The Case of the Pennsylvania GunHolmes and Watson travel to Sussex to investigate the murder of Squire Douglas, who was shot to death in a sealed-up castle, with only two apparent suspects.
  • The Case of the Texas Cowgirl
    E4
    The Case of the Texas CowgirlA cowgirl from a visiting rodeo show asks Sherlock Holmes to help her when she discovers a dead man in her hotel room.
  • The Case of the Belligerent Ghost
    E5
    The Case of the Belligerent GhostWhen Dr. Watson thinks that he has seen a ghost, it puts Sherlock Holmes on a trail that leads to a crime at an art museum.
  • The Case of the Shy Ballerina
    E6
    The Case of the Shy BallerinaDr. Watson accidentally comes home from his club with another man's coat, providing an important clue when the other man is murdered late that same night.
  • The Case of the Winthrop Legend
    E7
    The Case of the Winthrop LegendSherlock Holmes seeks a rational explanation for the Winthrop family legend, which foretells the death of any family member who unexpectedly finds silver coins in his possession.
  • The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
    E8
    The Case of the Blind Man's BluffThe only clue at the site of two grisly murders is a chicken's foot. Baffled, Insp. Lestrade goes to Sherlock Holmes for assistance.
  • The Case of Harry Crocker
    E9
    The Case of Harry CrockerVaudeville escape artist Harry Crocker turns to Sherlock Holmes for help when he is accused of strangling a chorus girl.
  • The Mother Hubbard Case
    E10
    The Mother Hubbard CaseSherlock Holmes tracks down a murderer who uses a young girl to lure victims to empty houses, where they are killed.
  • The Case of the Red Headed League
    E11
    The Case of the Red Headed LeagueSherlock Holmes investigates a strange story told to him by a shopkeeper, who claims to have been a member of the 'League of Red-Headed Men' until it unexpectedly dissolved.
  • The Case of the Shoeless Engineer
    E12
    The Case of the Shoeless EngineerHolmes meets an injured man carrying an unconscious woman. The man is an engineer who was hired by a man to fix the large hydraulic press at his estate but when he arrived, his curiosity about the press' use got him and woman in trouble.
  • The Case of the Split Ticket
    E13
    The Case of the Split TicketA Mr. O'Casey asks Holmes to find a man that he split the purchase of a lottery ticket 3 ways with, including a woman. They had torn the ticket into 3 pieces and the deadline to claim the prize is midnight.
  • The Case of the French Interpreter
    E14
    The Case of the French InterpreterA French translator named Dubec tells Holmes he was kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to translate a Frenchman being tortured. The parties were trying to get the man to sign some papers but he was refusing. Worse, Dubec doesn't know where.
  • The Case of the Singing Violin
    E15
    The Case of the Singing ViolinBetty is being tormented by apparent hallucinations, latest is a "singing violin." Her stepfather tells her fiance there can be no wedding because she is going to be declared insane. When the fiance goes to consult Holmes, he is murdered.
  • The Case of the Greystone Inscription
    E16
    The Case of the Greystone InscriptionMillicent Channing comes to Holmes asking help to find her fiance that disappeared. He had told her of his discovery that prompted him to visit Sir Greystone at his castle. The fiance didn't return and Sir Greystone denies ever seeing him.
  • The Case of the Laughing Mummy
    E17
    The Case of the Laughing MummySherlock Holmes helps one of Dr. Watson's old friends by explaining the source of an odd noise in the man's home, but in doing so Holmes uncovers a more serious mystery.
  • The Case of the Thistle Killer
    E18
    The Case of the Thistle KillerSherlock Holmes helps Scotland Yard to track down a killer who has been leaving three thistles next to each of the women he has murdered.
  • The Case of the Vanished Detective
    E19
    The Case of the Vanished DetectiveWhen Sherlock Holmes disappears, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade begin a search that leads them to a small shop.
  • The Case of the Careless Suffragette
    E20
    The Case of the Careless SuffragetteA zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball, intending only to draw attention to her cause, but it is switched with a real croquet ball and explodes, killing a member of Parliament.
  • The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter
    E21
    The Case of the Reluctant CarpenterAn arsonist burns Covent Garden to the ground, and threatens to do the same to other buildings unless he receives a large payment. Holmes and Watson, with no clues to the man's identity, search through the rubble of the burned-out building for clues to the arsonist's identity before he can strike again.
  • The Case of the Deadly Prophecy
    E22
    The Case of the Deadly ProphecyHolmes and Watson are called to a boy's school in Belgium. It seems that a young student has gotten into the habit of writing the names of faculty members on the steps of a nearby church, and shortly afterwards person whose name has been written down is found dead.
  • The Case of the Christmas Pudding
    E23
    The Case of the Christmas PuddingWhen a serial killer is sentenced to death, he issues a threat that he will kill Sherlock Holmes before he himself is executed.
  • The Case of the Night Train Riddle
    E24
    The Case of the Night Train RiddleA young boy and his father are traveling on a train, and after they have a fight, the boy runs out of the compartment and seems to have vanished into thin air. Although his governess thinks he has simply run away, Holmes begins to suspect something a bit more serious, and his investigation leads him to a nearby circus.
  • The Case of the Violent Suitor
    E25
    The Case of the Violent Suitor"Aunt Lottie", an advice columnist who is actually a man named Alex Doogle, advises a young woman to break up with her violent and insanely jealous boyfriend. The jilted boyfriend then finds Doogle, severely beats him and threatens his life. Doogle turns to Sherlock Holmes, both for his own protection and to save the young woman from her crazed fiancé.
  • The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids
    E26
    The Case of the Baker Street NursemaidsA baby is left on Holmes' and Watson's doorstep. The child turns out to be the son of a missing French scientist. When Watson is later brutally attacked and the baby kidnapped, the detectives must find the baby and its father and avoid an international scandal.
  • The Case of the Perfect Husband
    E27
    The Case of the Perfect HusbandRussell Partridge announces to his wife Janet one day that he is in fact a killer who has murdered his six previous wives, and notifies her that she has one day to live and get her affairs in order before he murders her, too. Janet can get no one to believe her tale, except Holmes and Watson, who must devise a plan to trap the killer before Janet's time runs out.
  • The Case of the Jolly Hangman
    E28
    The Case of the Jolly HangmanJessie Hooper hires Holmes to find her missing husband, William, and -- with the help of Lestrade's cousin MacDougal of Glasgow -- he his found hung -- like his grandfather. A rope salesman's laugh is the key clue. It is ironically the window that William never returned to repair that traps villain by his tie.
  • The Case of the Impostor Mystery
    E29
    The Case of the Impostor MysteryHolmes and Watson return from a vacation at Brighton to find an impostor has been impersonating Holmes, misadvising Lestrade to guard Hambleburg's not Carrolton's jewelry store and Sir Arthur to hide his valuables in the biscuit jar. Fighting impersonation with impersonation, Watson becomes the maharaja of Gampoor.
  • The Case of the Eiffel Tower
    E30
    The Case of the Eiffel TowerAfter a famous criminal is run over and killed by a milk truck, Insp. Lestrade finds a mysterious coded note in the man's clothing. He asks Holmes to decipher it, and Holmes' subsequent investigation leads him to assume the dead gangster's identity and he follows a trail of clues to Paris.
  • The Case of the Exhumed Client
    E31
    The Case of the Exhumed ClientSir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his mysterious Farnsworth Castle. It turns out that Farnsworth had a clause inserted in this will that his death, no matter what the apparent cause, would be investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes' investigation reveals traces of arsenic in the man's body, and there seems to be no shortage of people who knew Sir Charles who wanted him dead.
  • The Case of the Impromtu Performance
    E32
    The Case of the Impromtu PerformanceA condemned man scheduled to hang the next day uses his last request to ask Sherlock Holmes to prove his innocence of the murder for which he is about to be executed.
  • The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors
    E33
    The Case of the Baker Street BachelorsA political leader is being blackmailed, and to find the blackmailers, Holmes and Watson join a lonely hearts club. However, things don't go quite as planned, and Holmes winds up getting arrested and thrown in jail.
  • The Case of the Royal Murder
    E34
    The Case of the Royal MurderAs payment for solving a case, Holmes and Watson are invited to spend a weekend at an estate in the Balkans. However, their vacation is cut short when another guest, Prince Stefan, is poisoned and their host is accused of the murder. Holmes must find the real killer before he himself becomes the next victim.
  • The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough
    E35
    The Case of the Haunted GainsboroughThis is the story of the hunt for the MacGregor treasure -- and curse. The villain would be the castle's foreclosing mortgage holder, Archibald Ross.
  • The Case of the Neurotic Detective
    E36
    The Case of the Neurotic DetectiveHolmes begins acting even stranger than usual -- he tries to keep Watson from seeing the diamond necklace in his humidor, refuses to help Lestrade with the crime wave and dresses up to go with a Miss Jennifer Ames to a dance!
  • The Case of the Unlucky Gambler
    E37
    The Case of the Unlucky GamblerA young boy shows up at Baker Street, asking for Holmes' help in finding his missing father. Holmes' investigation reveals that the man is a gambler on the run from his creditors, and the team begins to make the rounds of the seedy gambling underworld in search of the boy's father.
  • The Case of the Diamond Tooth
    E38
    The Case of the Diamond ToothWhile walking along the banks of the River Thames, Watson finds a diamond tooth. The article takes on more meaning later, however, when Holmes learns that the body of a murder victim had been discovered near where Watson found the tooth.
  • The Case of the Tyrant's Daughter
    E39
    The Case of the Tyrant's DaughterA chemist is accused of the murder of his fiancé's stepfather, who was determined to keep the two apart. Although there is mounting evidence of the chemist's guilt, Holmes is requested by the old man's housekeeper to investigate the case, as she believes the young man to be innocent.

Cast of Season 1

  • Howard Marion-CrawfordDr. Watson
  • Ronald HowardSherlock Holmes
  • Archie DuncanInspektor Lestrade
  • Richard LarkeSgt. Wilkins

 

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