Sherlock Holmes: Series 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
The Speckled Band
May 17, 1964 · 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 s
The Illustrious Client
Feb 19, 1965 · 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 t
The Devil's Foot
Feb 26, 1965 · 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 dow
The Copper Beeches
Mar 5, 1965 · 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
The Red-Headed League
Mar 12, 1965 · 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 te
The Abbey Grange
Mar 19, 1965 · 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 Chisleh
The Six Napoleons
Mar 26, 1965 · 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,
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Apr 2, 1965 · 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 a
The Beryl Coronet
Apr 9, 1965 · 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 Br
The Bruce-Partington Plans
Apr 16, 1965 · 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
Charles Augustus Milverton
Apr 23, 1965 · 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 murderer
The Retired Colourman
Apr 30, 1965 · 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, t
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
May 7, 1965 · 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