The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Series 1

1991 · 9 episodes · 10h 4m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

   21 Feb 1991 · 49 min

   Holmes must save a suffragette after Watson meets her and notices she is troubled by a mysterious bearded man.

2. 2

   2. The Problem of Thor Bridge

   28 Feb 1991 · 47 min

   When a governess is arrested for shooting and killing Maria Gibson, the dead woman's husband needs Holmes's help to prove her innocent.

3. 3

   3. Shoscombe Old Place

   7 Mar 1991 · 51 min

   The horse trainer of a debt-ridden aristocrat consults Holmes about his employer's behaviour.

4. 4

   4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery

   14 Mar 1991 · 51 min

   Holmes must help James McCarthy when his father is killed after an argument (the subject of which he will not reveal) and young McCarthy is accused of the crime.

5. 5

   5. The Illustrious Client

   21 Mar 1991 · 51 min

   Sir James Damery asks Holmes to stop a general's daughter from marrying a philandering but seductively attractive murderer.

6. 6

   6. The Creeping Man

   28 Mar 1991 · 49 min

   The daughter of scientist Professor Presbury sees her father's face at her second-storey window; Holmes connects this with recent zoo thefts.

7. 7

   7. The Master Blackmailer

   2 Jan 1992 · 102 min

   Holmes and Watson attempt to thwart the schemes of the infamous blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton from blackmailing Lady Eva Blackwell. But things do not seem as easy as they do and Holmes must sacrifice his morality and his honourable career to stop Milverton from wrecking her marriage.

8. 8

   8. The Last Vampyre

   27 Jan 1993 · 101 min

   Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of deaths which seem to be related to John Stockton, who is descended from a family rumoured to have been vampires.

9. 9

   9. The Eligible Bachelor

   10 Feb 1993 · 103 min

   Holmes suffers from disturbing dreams as he helps to find the missing wife of Lord Robert St. Simon.