All Episodes of Sherlock Holmes
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Season 1
6.8/10202 votesThe Case of the Pennsylvania Gun
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/1954
Holmes and Watson travel to Sussex to investigate the murder of Squire Douglas, who was shot to death in a sealed-up castle, with only two apparent suspects.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
6.9/10180 votesThe Case of the Belligerent Ghost
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1954
When Dr. Watson thinks that he has seen a ghost, it puts Sherlock Holmes on a trail that leads to a crime at an art museum.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
6.6/10190 votesThe Case of the Shy Ballerina
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1954
Dr. Watson accidentally comes home from his club with another man's coat, providing an important clue when the other man is murdered late that same night.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
7.1/10173 votesThe Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1954
The only clue at the site of two grisly murders is a chicken's foot. Baffled, Insp. Lestrade goes to Sherlock Holmes for assistance.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
7.1/10179 votesThe Case of Harry Crocker
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/1954
Vaudeville escape artist Harry Crocker turns to Sherlock Holmes for help when he is accused of strangling a chorus girl.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
7.1/10178 votesThe Case of the Red Headed League
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/1954
Sherlock Holmes investigates a strange story told to him by a shopkeeper, who claims to have been a member of the 'League of Red-Headed Men' until it unexpectedly dissolved.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
6.4/10159 votesThe Case of the Shoeless Engineer
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1955
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are spending a restful day in the country, when they encounter a badly injured man who is carrying an unconscious young woman. They take the pair back to their flat in London, and after Dr. Watson has treated them, the man explains what has happened to them. He is Haterley, a hydraulic engineer with a business of his own. He had been hired by Colonel Stark and an associate, who wanted him to fix a large hydraulic press for them. He was taken to the colonel's country home, where their housekeeper tried frantically to warn him about Stark. After a tumultuous encounter, he and the housekeeper had barely escaped with their lives. From other details, Holmes deduces that Stark was involved in counterfeiting. Holmes, Watson, and Inspector Lestrade then set out to finish the case.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.4/10164 votesThe Case of the Split Ticket
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1955
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return to their flat to find Brian O'Casey waiting for them. The over-excited O'Casey struggles to get his points across, but eventually he explains how he, his friend Albert, and a young woman whom he met in a bakery shop shared the price of a sweepstakes ticket, tearing the ticket into three pieces, one for each of them to hold. Their number won, and they each stand to win 8,000 pounds. But now Albert has disappeared, and unless the other two can find him by midnight, the ticket will expire, and then they won't be able to collect their winnings.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.7/10149 votesThe Case of the French Interpreter
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1955
Dr. Watson urgently fetches Sherlock Holmes from his club, and brings him to see a French interpreter who urgently needs the detective. The interpreter, M. Dubec, explains how his services were requested by a man named Lattimer, who then abducted him and took him to an unknown location. There Dubec was asked to persuade a Frenchman to sign some papers for Lattimer and an associate, so that they can gain control over his sister's wealth. The case becomes more urgent when the criminals find out about Dubec's meeting with Holmes, and once again take him to their hidden location.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.4/10164 votesThe Case of the Singing Violin
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1955
Betty is being tormented by apparent hallucinations, the latest of which she refers to as a 'singing violin'. Her stepfather brings her fiancé to see her in this condition, and he tells the young man that there can be no wedding, because Betty is going to be declared insane. The fiancé goes to consult Sherlock Holmes, but he is murdered before he can see the detective. When Inspector Lestrade consults Holmes about the murder, Holmes recognizes the name of the dead man and also of the step-father, who is the lone surviving partner in a large tea and spice business. Holmes quickly forms a theory about the murder, and sets out to prove it.
Director: Steve Previn
Writer: Kay Krausse
6.9/10147 votesThe Case of the Greystone Inscription
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/1955
Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John. Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with him to Greystone Castle.Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John. Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with him to Greystone Castle.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.9/10155 votesThe Case of the Laughing Mummy
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1955
Sherlock Holmes helps one of Dr. Watson's old friends by explaining the source of an odd noise in the man's home, but in doing so Holmes uncovers a more serious mystery.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
6.4/10155 votesThe Case of the Careless Suffragette
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1955
A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball, intending only to draw attention to her cause, but it is switched with a real croquet ball and explodes, killing a member of Parliament.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.8/10136 votesThe Case of the Deadly Prophecy
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1955
Holmes and Watson are called to a boy's school in Belgium. It seems that a young student has gotten into the habit of writing the names of faculty members on the steps of a nearby church, and shortly afterwards person whose name has been written down is found dead.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
6.3/10152 votesThe Case of the Night Train Riddle
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/11/1955
A young boy and his father are traveling on a train, and after they have a fight, the boy runs out of the compartment and seems to have vanished into thin air. Although his governess thinks he has simply run away, Holmes begins to suspect something a bit more serious, and his investigation leads him to a nearby circus.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.7/10151 votesThe Case of the Violent Suitor
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/18/1955
"Aunt Lottie", an advice columnist who is actually a man named Alex Doogle, advises a young woman to break up with her violent and insanely jealous boyfriend. The jilted boyfriend then finds Doogle, severely beats him and threatens his life. Doogle turns to Sherlock Holmes, both for his own protection and to save the young woman from her crazed fiancé.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.5/10136 votesThe Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/25/1955
A baby is left on Holmes' and Watson's doorstep. The child turns out to be the son of a missing French scientist. When Watson is later brutally attacked and the baby kidnapped, the detectives must find the baby and its father and avoid an international scandal.
Director: Sheldon Reynolds
Writer: Unknown
7.5/10180 votesThe Case of the Perfect Husband
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/2/1955
Russell Partridge announces to his wife Janet one day that he is in fact a killer who has murdered his six previous wives, and notifies her that she has one day to live and get her affairs in order before he murders her, too. Janet can get no one to believe her tale, except Holmes and Watson, who must devise a plan to trap the killer before Janet's time runs out.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.8/10137 votesThe Case of the Jolly Hangman
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 5/9/1955
Jessie Hooper hires Holmes to find her missing husband, William, and -- with the help of Lestrade's cousin MacDougal of Glasgow -- he his found hung -- like his grandfather. A rope salesman's laugh is the key clue. It is ironically the window that William never returned to repair that traps villain by his tie.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.6/10117 votesThe Case of the Impostor Mystery
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 5/16/1955
Holmes and Watson return from a vacation at Brighton to find an impostor has been impersonating Holmes, misadvising Lestrade to guard Hambleburg's not Carrolton's jewelry store and Sir Arthur to hide his valuables in the biscuit jar. Fighting impersonation with impersonation, Watson becomes the maharaja of Gampoor.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.3/10141 votesThe Case of the Eiffel Tower
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/23/1955
After a famous criminal is run over and killed by a milk truck, Insp. Lestrade finds a mysterious coded note in the man's clothing. He asks Holmes to decipher it, and Holmes' subsequent investigation leads him to assume the dead gangster's identity and he follows a trail of clues to Paris.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.2/10130 votesThe Case of the Exhumed Client
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/30/1955
Sir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his mysterious Farnsworth Castle. It turns out that Farnsworth had a clause inserted in this will that his death, no matter what the apparent cause, would be investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes' investigation reveals traces of arsenic in the man's body, and there seems to be no shortage of people who knew Sir Charles who wanted him dead.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.6/10131 votesThe Case of the Baker Street Bachelors
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 6/20/1955
A political leader is being blackmailed, and to find the blackmailers, Holmes and Watson join a lonely hearts club. However, things don't go quite as planned, and Holmes winds up getting arrested and thrown in jail.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.4/10131 votesThe Case of the Royal Murder
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 6/27/1955
As payment for solving a case, Holmes and Watson are invited to spend a weekend at an estate in the Balkans. However, their vacation is cut short when another guest, Prince Stefan, is poisoned and their host is accused of the murder. Holmes must find the real killer before he himself becomes the next victim.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.6/10136 votesThe Case of the Neurotic Detective
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 7/11/1955
Holmes begins acting even stranger than usual -- he tries to keep Watson from seeing the diamond necklace in his humidor, refuses to help Lestrade with the crime wave and dresses up to go with a Miss Jennifer Ames to a dance!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.1/10124 votesThe Case of the Unlucky Gambler
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 7/18/1955
A young boy shows up at Baker Street, asking for Holmes' help in finding his missing father. Holmes' investigation reveals that the man is a gambler on the run from his creditors, and the team begins to make the rounds of the seedy gambling underworld in search of the boy's father.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
6.6/10121 votesThe Case of the Diamond Tooth
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 9/19/1955
While walking along the banks of the River Thames, Watson finds a diamond tooth. The article takes on more meaning later, however, when Holmes learns that the body of a murder victim had been discovered near where Watson found the tooth.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.0/10122 votesThe Case of the Tyrant's Daughter
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 10/17/1955
A chemist is accused of the murder of his fiancé's stepfather, who was determined to keep the two apart. Although there is mounting evidence of the chemist's guilt, Holmes is requested by the old man's housekeeper to investigate the case, as she believes the young man to be innocent.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
