8.0/106 votes#1 - The Solitary Cyclist
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/15/1984
Violet Smith has recently started a new job as music teacher to Robert Carruthers, staying during the week at his house in the country. She consults Holmes because she is worried about being followed once a week on her way to the railway station by a man on a bicycle. Carruthers asks Miss Smith to marry him, but Holmes sees a sinister connection between him and the stalker.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: N/A
7.9/1010 votes#2 - A Scandal in Bohemia
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/24/1984
A masked man calls, on confidential business, and Holmes quickly recognizes the visitor as the King of Bohemia. The King is planning for himself a dynastic marriage and is worried about a compromising photograph in the possession of his American former mistress. He wants Holmes to get it back for him.In outwitting the lady, Irene Adler, Holmes goes to great lengths - and at the end of the affair Watson comes to the conclusion that his friend is himself smitten.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: N/A
7.6/105 votes#3 - The Copper Beeches
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/25/1985
Violet Hunter consults Holmes about Edward Rucastle's offer of a job. He wants her to cut off her hair before coming to work for him as a governess. Holmes sees a sinister motive and investigates.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: N/A
7.0/102 votes#4 - Skeleton in the Cupboard
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 12/18/1987
Robert Smythe is a ruthless executive with a dangerous twenty year old secret. An echo from the past prompts him into a new cover up of the truth, but his wife becomes suspicious.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Tony Wilmot
6.0/101 votes#5 - Widows II: Episode 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/3/1985
It is six months after the robbery and Dolly has returned to England and is awaiting a face-lift. Back in Rio, Shirley is packing to go to Los Angeles and Bella has got engaged. Dolly gets a P.I. to watch Trudy Nunn, who Harry was living with before he left. Harry turns up in Rio to get money from his accounts there, but he finds that Dolly has cleaned out all his accounts. One night, Bella and her fiance take Linda out, but she keeps dropping hints at Bella's past and Bella sends her home. Harry is there and, in fear of her life, Linda tells him everything. Bella returns and runs into Harry and then finds Linda beaten up in the swimming pool.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Lynda La Plante
- 6.0/101 votes
#6 - Widows II: Episode 2
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/10/1985
Linda and Bella have an argument, and it is overheard by Bella's fiance and he hears everything about her past. Dolly receives a letter telling her about Harry, and she rushes to hide the money somewhere else. Harry arranges his return to England, as do Bella, Linda and Shirley. Harry is met by Mickey at the airport, who he tells to follow Linda and Bella. Harry then gets someone to go to them to find out where Dolly is, but he misses Linda and beats up the woman who is staying at Bella's. The widows meet up and decide to tell Harry that they are going to make a deal and give him £60,000 to leave them alone for good, but they secretly have decided to call the police when they have given Harry the money.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Lynda La Plante
- 6.0/101 votes
#7 - Widows II: Episode 3
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/17/1985
Dolly, Bella, Shirley and Linda meet to go over the plan for the handover. Linda makes a dummy to use in her car and Micky fixes it for Shirley to join a modeling company. Shirley's mother tells her that she is pregnant, which takes Shirley's mind off the plan. Linda leaves and gets a gun, which Dolly has ordered her not to do. Dolly phones Harry and tells him where to meet her. When she is about to hand over the money, Linda and Bella arrive late and Harry rushes to leave, running Linda over and killing her. When Dolly finds out that Harry has killed Linda, she goes to his old house with the gun, but he isn't there. The P.I., Vic Morgan, arrives and finds her standing outside with the gun.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Lynda La Plante
- 6.0/101 votes
#8 - Widows II: Episode 4
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/1985
Vic Morgan goes to see D.I. Resnick at the hospital and tells him what he has found out so far. Bella tells Shirley that Linda is dead. Dolly and Bella find out that Harry is going to do another robbery when they go to the hideout to look for Dolly's book. Bella rents the lockup next door to keep an eye on how the robbery plan is progressing. Harry and Micky pay a visit to Arnie Fisher and get ""permission"" to use his club for a party. Morgan visits Dolly and asks her out to lunch and overhears her crying. The police catch up with Sunny, the fence for the money.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Lynda La Plante
- 6.0/101 votes
#9 - Widows II: Episode 5
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/1985
The party at the Fishers' club is used by Harry to get people involved in the robbery. The police turn up, but Micky pretends that they were invited to stop them ruining things. Shirley comes face to face with Harry on the stairs in the club. Morgan turns up at Dolly's house and takes her to his boat, which she doesn't like in the least. She ends up getting his coat overboard. Dolly and Bella find out that Shirley is working at Amanda's Night Club and when the robbery will take place. Dolly sends Morgan a new coat and Harry secures the plans for the robbery.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Lynda La Plante
- 6.0/101 votes
#10 - Widows II: Episode 6
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/8/1985
Dolly and Bella go to the lockup and find out that the robbery will be carried out earlier than they thought. They rush to phone the police and race to the club, but they are already there. They go in and hold up the staff and the models and take the jewellery. Shirley gets shot by Micky and he makes a run for it, but Dolly and Bella follow him and he is injured in a collision with a lorry - and is later shot by Harry. Bella leaves the country for Los Angeles and Dolly hides the diamonds, but she's also got a surprise in store for Harry.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Lynda La Plante
6.0/102 votes#11 - Wink Three Times
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 4/15/1988
A timid provincial solicitor visits a smart London hotel on a business trip, and becomes embroiled in a curious case of mistaken identity.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: N/A
5.5/102 votes#12 - A Time to Die
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 5/6/1988
Yves's marriage has gone stale and his young mistress has announced that she is pregnant. But he then makes a decision which changes everyone's lives.
Director: Paul Annett
Writer: Robin Chapman
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"The Solitary Cyclist" is the best rated episode directed by Paul Annett. It scored 8/10 based on 6 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 5/15/1984 and is rated 0.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "A Scandal in Bohemia".