The Best Episodes of Sherlock Holmes Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.8/10(1793 votes)

   #1 - A Scandal in Bohemia

   S1:E14/24/1984

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Paul Annett

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   8.1/10(1606 votes)

   #2 - The Dancing Men

   S1:E25/1/1984

   Hilton Cubitt, from Derbyshire, consults Holmes about a series of dancing men picture-messages his wife is receiving. On their wedding-day, she had made Cubitt promise he would ask her nothing about her past, but she now seems to be terrified. Holmes has to decipher the code of the matchstick men and get to the bottom of a dreadful murder which lies behind it.

   Director:John Bruce

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:John Bruce

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   7.8/10(1413 votes)

   #3 - The Naval Treaty

   S1:E35/8/1984

   Holmes is approached by Percy Phelps, of the Foreign Office, to recover a document which has been stolen - before it can cause an international scandal and ruin Phelps's career. It seems the British Empire and the Kingdom of Italy have entered into a secret and embarrassing treaty.

   Director:Alan Grint

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Alan Grint

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   8.0/10(1451 votes)

   #4 - The Solitary Cyclist

   S1:E45/15/1984

   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:Unknown

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   Director:Paul Annett

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   7.8/10(1374 votes)

   #5 - The Crooked Man

   S1:E55/22/1984

   An unhappy wife learns that her husband, Colonel Barclay, cheated her earlier fiance, leaving him disabled and in exile. After a fierce argument between them, the Colonel's dead body is found next to his unconscious wife in a locked room with no key, and with curious animal tracks outside the window. Nancy Barclay remains in a coma.Holmes investigates and finds a story of betrayal and a mystery worthy of his powers.

   Director:Alan Grint

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Alan Grint

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   8.2/10(1472 votes)

   #6 - The Speckled Band

   S1:E65/29/1984

   Holmes is approached by Helen Stoner, who feels threatened by her domineering step-father, Dr Grimesby Roylott. Her sister died mysteriously just before her planned wedding, and Helen has heard again the curious whistle she first heard on the night of her sister's death.Holmes perceives great danger and lays a complicated plan to defeat the threat to the beautiful Helen.

   Director:John Bruce

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:John Bruce

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   8.1/10(1361 votes)

   #7 - The Blue Carbuncle

   S1:E76/5/1984

   A plumber, John Horner, is arrested just before Christmas and charged with stealing a famous jewel, the Blue Carbuncle, from Lady Morcar. He denies the theft - but he has a criminal record, and all the evidence is against him. After Holmes's doorman finds the Carbuncle in a Christmas goose, Holmes uses an old hat to track the goose to a poultry dealer, then traps the servant who stole the jewel and framed the plumber. The Blue Carbuncle has a dark history, and the stone features in the programme's opening credits with turbulent scenes from its past.

   Director:David Carson

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:David Carson

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