Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

1987 · 6 episodes · 5h 58m in all · 7.7/10

Adaptations to some of Doyle's short stories from "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", and two feature-length TV movies based on novels written by Doyle: "The Sign of Four" and the ever popular "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Episodes

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   1. The Sign of Four

   29 Dec 1987 · 50 min · 6.5/10

   A woman receives one large and valuable pearl anonymously every year. When an invitation arrives to meet the mysterious pearl-giver, she seeks Holmes's advice.

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   2. The Devil's Foot

   6 Apr 1988 · 50 min · 7.8/10

   After an illness, Holmes reluctantly takes a holiday with Watson for company and ends up investigating an unexplained tragedy that occurred to three siblings after a quiet evening at home playing cards.

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   3. Silver Blaze

   13 Apr 1988 · 50 min · 8.2/10

   Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.

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   4. Wisteria Lodge

   20 Apr 1988 · 51 min · 6.6/10

   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.

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   5. The Bruce Partington Plans

   27 Apr 1988 · 52 min · 8.3/10

   Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.

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   6. The Hound of the Baskervilles

   31 Aug 1988 · 105 min · 9.0/10

   Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead with his face contorted in terror and the footprints of a huge dog near his body. His heir engages Holmes to get to the bottom of the age-old family curse of the phantom hound.