The Worst Episodes of Sherlock Holmes
Every episode of Sherlock Holmes ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Sherlock Holmes!
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Sherlock Holmes" is "The Last Vampyre", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Tim Sullivan and written by N/A. "The Last Vampyre" aired on 1/27/1993 and is rated NaN point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "The Eligible Bachelor".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - The Last Vampyre
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 1/27/1993
Holmes investigates a killing which has all the hallmarks of the worst kind of Ruritanian vampire. He is sceptical (to say the least) about the possibility that the undead are up to their mischief just a short train journey from his rooms in Baker Street. If a local resident really found his South American wife sucking blood from their young son, what might it signify?
Director: Tim Sullivan
Writer: N/A
NaN/10 0 votes#2 - The Eligible Bachelor
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 2/3/1993
American heiress Henrietta Doran (known as Hatty) marries Lord St Simon, but she vanishes without trace on her wedding day, leaving London agog. Later, the police find her wedding dress in the Serpentine, a lake in a London park, with a note in the pocket of the dress. While investigating the case, Holmes suffers from nightmares, which he sees as a factor in the mystery.
Director: Peter Hammond
Writer: N/A
6.8/10 5 votes#3 - Wisteria Lodge
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 4/20/1988
On a visit to Wisteria Lodge, Scott Eccles gets a strange reception. A mysterious note arrives for his host, Garcia, and the next morning Garcia and his servants have vanished without trace. Eccles consults Holmes, who decides to treat the case as a murder investigation, but it appears that Holmes and Watson are on a wild goose chase.
Director: Peter Hammond
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 2 votes#4 - The Sign of Four
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 12/29/1987
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.
Director: Peter Hammond
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 3 votes#5 - The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/1991
Watson, on holiday in the Lake District, meets the enigmatic Lady Frances Carfax, who is being haunted by the ghost of a horseman. Holmes decides to come up to join Watson, but by the time he arrives Lady Frances has vanished without trace. Holmes investigates and becomes very curious about the ghost.
Director: John Madden
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 3 votes#6 - The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/1991
Alice Turner sends for Holmes when her lifelong friend farmer William McCarthy is killed and police suspicion falls on his son, James. James McCarthy admits quarrelling with his father, but he will not explain what their argument was about.
Director: June Howson
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 3 votes#7 - The Three Gables
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/1994
Holmes investigates when a man dies and the manuscript of his recently-completed book is stolen. He has to discover who was behind an unusual proposal to buy a house and all of its contents.
Director: Peter Hammond
Writer: N/A
7.8/10 6 votes#8 - The Crooked Man
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/22/1984
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: N/A
7.9/10 10 votes#9 - 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
7.9/10 1,101 votes#10 - The Greek Interpreter
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/1/1985
Holmes's brother, Mycroft, seeks his help in deciphering the story a man tells about being kidnapped and forced to translate for an injured Greek. Holmes investigates the disappearance of Paul Kratides, abducted by two villains, Latimer and Kemp, with the aim of forcing him to sign a document releasing his sister Sophie to marry Latimer.
Director: Alan Grint
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 8 votes#11 - The Naval Treaty
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/8/1984
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: N/A
8.0/10 6 votes#12 - 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
8.0/10 1,155 votes#13 - 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
8.0/10 1,043 votes#14 - The Resident Patient
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/1985
Dr Trevelyan calls on Holmes on behalf of his friend Blessington, after a Russian father and son vanish during a consultation. Blessington knows of no one who wishes him ill, but he is found hanged the next day. Holmes investigates, with advice from Watson.
Director: David Carson
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 4 votes#15 - The Empty House
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/9/1986
Three years on from Holmes's fatal fall into the Reichenbach Falls, Watson wrestles with a murder case under his own steam. But who is the enigmatic stranger in the Coroner's court, listening intently to all the evidence? Holmes returns home and explains how he escaped death at Reichenbach, while Moriarty lost his life. Holmes and Watson must now bring a partner of Moriarty's to justice, by proving he is a murderer.
Director: Howard Baker
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 7 votes#16 - The Devil's Foot
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 4/6/1988
Reluctantly, after an illness, Holmes takes a holiday in Cornwall, with Watson for company. Then one day he finds himself investigating a mysterious death... after a quiet evening at home playing cards, three local inhabitants have been found in the morning in a terrible way: the two brothers overtaken by sudden mental illness, babbling incoherently, and their sister dead, with her face twisted into a look of terror. Holmes is delighted with the chance to bury his holiday boredom by taking on the case.
Director: Ken Hannam
Writer: N/A
8.0/10 2 votes#17 - The Mazarin Stone
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 4/4/1994
The Mazarin Stone, a famous jewel, acts as a magnet for crime. Holmes investigates the latest and perhaps most curious episode in its adventures.
Director: Peter Hammond
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 8 votes#18 - The Dancing Men
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/1984
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: N/A
8.2/10 1,079 votes#19 - The Norwood Builder
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/8/1985
A young solicitor, John Hector McFarlane, seeks Holmes's help after retired builder Jonas Oldacre dies in a fire. McFarlane, who benefits from Oldacre's will, is suspected of murder and asks Holmes to clear his name. Holmes looks for another motive and another killer, and dresses up as a tramp to get the information he needs about the Oldacre household. The surprising answer he finds is that Oldacre is not exactly dead.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 4 votes#20 - The Abbey Grange
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/16/1986
Holmes is called in to investigate a murder. Lady Brackenstall says she saw a gang of men kill her bullying husband, Sir Eustace, but on Holmes's arrival the case seems to have been solved. Holmes is uneasy and returns to the scene of the crime, where he finds things are not as they appear to be. And Watson is curious to hear about the lady's love affair with a sea captain during a long voyage.
Director: Peter Hammond
Writer: N/A
8.2/10 4 votes#21 - The Priory School
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/13/1986
The Duke of Holdernesse needs Holmes's help when his son, Lord Arthur Saltire, is kidnapped from the Priory School. Holmes finds the connection between an old mystery and a teacher who has also gone missing.
Director: John Madden
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 6 votes#22 - The Blue Carbuncle
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/5/1984
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: N/A
8.4/10 1,197 votes#23 - The Red-Headed League
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/22/1985
A notice in a newspaper seeks red-headed men, inviting them to join a league which will pay them well - and Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker who responds, finds he is hired and paid generously for spending four hours a day copying an encyclopedia in long hand. When the league is suddenly dissolved, Holmes is asked to find out what has been going on, and he quickly suspects crime. Indeed, behind this curious arrangement lurks Holmes's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.
Director: John Bruce
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 1,164 votes#24 - The Final Problem
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 9/29/1985
The French government sends for Holmes when the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre. Holmes swiftly decides he is dealing with a mastermind - and none other than his old enemy Professor Moriarty himself.Holmes foils Moriarty's plans to sell Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece and trails him to Switzerland, where they meet and fight to the death above the famous waterfall at Reichenbach.
Director: Alan Grint
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 2 votes#25 - The Musgrave Ritual
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/30/1986
An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.
Director: David Carson
Writer: N/A