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An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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Season 1

7.6/10162 votes
A Message from the Deep Sea
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1971
This episode features Dr Thorndyke, played by John Neville, who is first a medical man and second a solver of mysteries. A young girl has been murdered in her boarding house and the solution looks obvious - but is it? Neville plays the sleuth with aplomb and this is a strong opening episode. The character is arrogant, capable, and likable - and of course his intelligence makes his police colleagues and/or adversaries look like idiots!
Director: Jim Goddard
Writer: Philip Mackie, R. Austin Freeman
7.1/10132 votes
The Missing Witness Sensation
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1971
Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writer: Philip Mackie, Ernest Bramah
5.9/10115 votes
The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1971
Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
Director: Jim Goddard
Writer: Arthur Morrison, Julian Bond
7.2/10122 votes
The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1971
Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Anthony Steven, Guy Boothby
6.5/10144 votes
The Horse of the Invisible
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1971
Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.
Director: Alan Cooke
Writer: Philip Mackie, William Hope Hodgson
6.3/1098 votes
The Case of the Mirror of Portugal
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1971
Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
Director: Mike Vardy
Writer: Arthur Morrison
6.6/1096 votes
Madame Sara
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1971
Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.
Director: Piers Haggard
Writer: Philip Mackie, Robert Eustace, L.T. Meade
6.2/1086 votes
The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1971
Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
Director: Jim Goddard
Writer: Arthur Morrison
6.9/1097 votes
The Woman in the Big Hat
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1971
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
Director: Alan Cooke
Writer: Baroness Emmuska Orczy, Alan Cooke
6.9/1084 votes
The Affair of the Tortoise
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1971
Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
Director: Bill Bain
Writer: Arthur Morrison
6.6/1083 votes
The Assyrian Rejuvenator
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1971
Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writer: R. Austin Freeman, Julian Bond
7.3/1087 votes
The Ripening Rubies
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1971
Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
Director: Alan Cooke
Writer: Anthony Skene
7.3/1080 votes
The Case of Laker, Absconded
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1971
Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.
Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writer: Philip Mackie