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Sherlock Holmes

Season 1 · 39 episodes · Oct 18, 1954

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    Episode 1

    The Case of the Cunningham Heritage

    Oct 18, 1954

    Dr. John Watson meets private detective Sherlock Holmes, and assists him in solving a case that has confused Inspector Lestrade.

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    Episode 2

    The Case of Lady Beryl

    Oct 25, 1954

    Lady Beryl confesses to a murder that was committed at her home, but Sherlock Holmes is convinced that she is innocent.

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    Episode 3

    The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun

    Nov 1, 1954

    Holmes 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.

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    Episode 4

    The Case of the Texas Cowgirl

    Nov 8, 1954

    A cowgirl from a visiting rodeo show asks Sherlock Holmes to help her when she discovers a dead man in her hotel room.

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    Episode 5

    The Case of the Belligerent Ghost

    Nov 15, 1954

    When 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.

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    Episode 6

    The Case of the Shy Ballerina

    Nov 22, 1954

    Dr. 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.

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    Episode 7

    The Case of the Winthrop Legend

    Nov 29, 1954

    Sherlock 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.

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    Episode 8

    The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

    Dec 6, 1954

    The only clue at the site of two grisly murders is a chicken's foot. Baffled, Insp. Lestrade goes to Sherlock Holmes for assistance.

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    Episode 9

    The Case of Harry Crocker

    Dec 6, 1954

    Vaudeville escape artist Harry Crocker turns to Sherlock Holmes for help when he is accused of strangling a chorus girl.

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    Episode 10

    The Mother Hubbard Case

    Dec 20, 1954

    Sherlock Holmes tracks down a murderer who uses a young girl to lure victims to empty houses, where they are killed.

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    Episode 11

    The Case of the Red Headed League

    Dec 27, 1954

    Sherlock 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.

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    Episode 12

    The Case of the Shoeless Engineer

    Jan 3, 1955

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are spending a restful day in the country, when they encounter a badly injured man who is carrying an unconscious young woman. They take the pair back to their flat in London, and after Dr. Watson has treated them, the man explains what has happened to them. He is Haterley, a hydraulic engineer with a business of his own. He had been hired by Colonel Stark and an associate, who wanted him to fix a large hydraulic press for them. He was taken to the colonel's country home, where their housekeeper tried frantically to warn him about Stark. After a tumultuous encounter, he and the housekeeper had barely escaped with their lives. From other details, Holmes deduces that Stark was involved in counterfeiting. Holmes, Watson, and Inspector Lestrade then set out to finish the case.

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    Episode 13

    The Case of the Split Ticket

    Jan 10, 1955

    Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return to their flat to find Brian O'Casey waiting for them. The over-excited O'Casey struggles to get his points across, but eventually he explains how he, his friend Albert, and a young woman whom he met in a bakery shop shared the price of a sweepstakes ticket, tearing the ticket into three pieces, one for each of them to hold. Their number won, and they each stand to win 8,000 pounds. But now Albert has disappeared, and unless the other two can find him by midnight, the ticket will expire, and then they won't be able to collect their winnings.

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    Episode 14

    The Case of the French Interpreter

    Jan 17, 1955

    Dr. Watson urgently fetches Sherlock Holmes from his club, and brings him to see a French interpreter who urgently needs the detective. The interpreter, M. Dubec, explains how his services were requested by a man named Lattimer, who then abducted him and took him to an unknown location. There Dubec was asked to persuade a Frenchman to sign some papers for Lattimer and an associate, so that they can gain control over his sister's wealth. The case becomes more urgent when the criminals find out about Dubec's meeting with Holmes, and once again take him to their hidden location.

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    Episode 15

    The Case of the Singing Violin

    Jan 24, 1955

    Betty is being tormented by apparent hallucinations, the latest of which she refers to as a 'singing violin'. Her stepfather brings her fiancé to see her in this condition, and he tells the young man that there can be no wedding, because Betty is going to be declared insane. The fiancé goes to consult Sherlock Holmes, but he is murdered before he can see the detective. When Inspector Lestrade consults Holmes about the murder, Holmes recognizes the name of the dead man and also of the step-father, who is the lone surviving partner in a large tea and spice business. Holmes quickly forms a theory about the murder, and sets out to prove it.

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    Episode 16

    The Case of the Greystone Inscription

    Jan 31, 1955

    Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John. Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with him to Greystone Castle.Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John. Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with him to Greystone Castle.

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    Episode 17

    The Case of the Laughing Mummy

    Feb 7, 1955

    Sherlock 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.

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    Episode 18

    The Case of the Thistle Killer

    Feb 14, 1955

    Sherlock Holmes helps Scotland Yard to track down a killer who has been leaving three thistles next to each of the women he has murdered.

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    Episode 19

    The Case of the Vanished Detective

    Feb 21, 1955

    When Sherlock Holmes disappears, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade begin a search that leads them to a small shop.

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    Episode 20

    The Case of the Careless Suffragette

    Feb 28, 1955

    A 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.

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    Episode 21

    The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter

    Mar 7, 1955

    Sherlock Holmes races against time in order to find the location of a bomb that was planted somewhere in London by an extortionist.

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    Episode 22

    The Case of the Deadly Prophecy

    Mar 14, 1955

    Holmes 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.

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    Episode 23

    The Case of the Christmas Pudding

    Apr 4, 1955

    When a serial killer is sentenced to death, he issues a threat that he will kill Sherlock Holmes before he himself is executed.

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    Episode 24

    The Case of the Night Train Riddle

    Apr 11, 1955

    A 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.

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    Episode 25

    The Case of the Violent Suitor

    Apr 18, 1955

    "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.

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    Episode 26

    The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids

    Apr 25, 1955

    A 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.

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    Episode 27

    The Case of the Perfect Husband

    Mar 2, 1955

    Russell 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.

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    Episode 28

    The Case of the Jolly Hangman

    May 9, 1955

    Jessie 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.

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    Episode 29

    The Case of the Impostor Mystery

    May 16, 1955

    Holmes 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.

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    Episode 30

    The Case of the Eiffel Tower

    May 23, 1955

    After 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.

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    Episode 31

    The Case of the Exhumed Client

    May 30, 1955

    Sir 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.

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    Episode 32

    The Case of the Impromtu Performance

    Jun 6, 1955

    A 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.

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    Episode 33

    The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors

    Jun 20, 1955

    A 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.

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    Episode 34

    The Case of the Royal Murder

    Jun 27, 1955

    As 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.

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    Episode 35

    The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough

    Jul 4, 1955

    This is the story of the hunt for the MacGregor treasure -- and curse. The villain would be the castle's foreclosing mortgage holder, Archibald Ross.

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    Episode 36

    The Case of the Neurotic Detective

    Jul 11, 1955

    Holmes 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!

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    Episode 37

    The Case of the Unlucky Gambler

    Jul 18, 1955

    A 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.

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    Episode 38

    The Case of the Diamond Tooth

    Sep 19, 1955

    While 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.

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    Episode 39

    The Case of the Tyrant's Daughter

    Oct 17, 1955

    A 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.