The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of the devil's foot, Silver Blaze, Wisteria Lodge and the Bruce-Partington Plans.

Genre: CrimeDramaMystery

Cast:Jeremy BrettEdward HardwickeRosalie WilliamsColin JeavonsDenis LillJames HazeldineEric SykesHarry AndrewsAlan HowardClive FrancisEric PorterPaul WilliamsonFreddie JonesCharles GrayDenis QuilleyPeter BarkworthPatricia HodgeMichael Culver


1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Empty House

Wed, Jul 9, 1986

Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Professor Moriarity three years earlier, Sherlock Holmes returns to England to foil a plot to murder him by a former Moriarity gang member.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Priory School

Wed, Jul 16, 1986

The headmaster of a prestigious prep school calls on Holmes for help when the ten year old only son of powerful but publicity-shy duke disappears.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Second Stain

Wed, Jul 23, 1986

Holmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Musgrave Ritual

Wed, Jul 30, 1986

An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ The Abbey Grange

Wed, Aug 6, 1986

Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Man with the Twisted Lip

Wed, Aug 13, 1986

Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Six Napoleons

Wed, Aug 20, 1986

Inspector Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been inexplicably breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of breaking small busts of Napoleon.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Sign of Four

Tue, Dec 29, 1987

Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance; this leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Mutiny of 1857.