The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986): All Episodes, Air Dates & Ratings

1986 · 13 episodes · 12h 54m in all · 6.7/10

In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.

1. The Empty House
9 Jul 1986 · 51 min · 10.0/10
Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Moriarity three years ago, Holmes returns to England to foil a murder plot against him by a former Moriarity gang member.
2. The Priory School
16 Jul 1986 · 52 min · 6.0/10
The headmaster of a prestigious prep school calls on Holmes for help when the ten year old only son of powerful but publicity-shy duke disappears.
3. The Second Stain
23 Jul 1986 · 51 min · 6.0/10
Holmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war.
4. The Musgrave Ritual
30 Jul 1986 · 52 min · 8.0/10
An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.
5. The Abbey Grange
6 Aug 1986 · 52 min · 4.0/10
Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.
6. The Man with the Twisted Lip
13 Aug 1986 · 52 min · 1.0/10
Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.
7. The Six Napoleons
20 Aug 1986 · 52 min · 7.0/10
Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been inexplicably breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of breaking small busts of Napoleon.
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8. The Devil's Foot
6 Apr 1988 · 52 min
While convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers.
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9. Silver Blaze
13 Apr 1988 · 51 min · 9.0/10
Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.
10. Wisteria Lodge
20 Apr 1988 · 51 min
A bored Holmes eagerly accepts a case involving the disappearance of an amateur Spanish cartographer as well as his servants from his rented country lodge.
11. The Bruce Partington Plans
27 Apr 1988 · 52 min · 9.0/10
Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
12. The Hound of the Baskervilles
4 May 1988 · 103 min
Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on Dartmoor, with his face contorted in terror and the footprints of a huge dog near his body. On arrival in England, Sir Charles's American heir, now Sir Henry Baskerville, engages Holmes to come to Devon and get to the bottom of the age-old legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles - a phantom which kills.From the outset, Holmes is convinced there is a human murderer at work and he lays a deep plan to foil him.
13. The Sign of Four
11 May 1988 · 103 min
For years after her father's disappearance, the beautiful Miss Mary Morstan receives anonymously every year one large and valuable pearl. When, finally, an invitation arrives to meet the mysterious pearl-giver, Mary Morstan seeks Holmes's advice, and he begins to unravel some remarkable clues, including a poison dart and a man with a wooden leg. What Holmes finds is an old soldier who is determined to punish those who betrayed him and his friends by stealing their oriental treasure.