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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Episode Guide

Season 1

A Scandal in Bohemia

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Apr 24, 1984

A Scandal in Bohemia

Sherlock Holmes finds himself evenly matched when he is employed by the King of Bohemia to retrieve an indiscreet photograph from the American actress and singer, Irene Adler.

The Dancing Men

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: May 1, 1984

The Dancing Men

A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.

The Naval Treaty

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: May 8, 1984

The Naval Treaty

An unknown thief steals an important naval treaty from a Foreign Office clerk. Sherlock Holmes sets out to find it.

The Solitary Cyclist

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: May 15, 1984

The Solitary Cyclist

A strange man on a bicycle follows a young music teacher as she bicycles on a lonely road to and from the city.

The Crooked Man

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: May 22, 1984

The Crooked Man

Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.

The Speckled Band

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: May 29, 1984

The Speckled Band

A young woman asks for Holmes' help when her ill-tempered stepfather moves her into the same room where her sister died under mysterious circumstances.

The Blue Carbuncle

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Jun 5, 1984

The Blue Carbuncle

When the Countess of Morcar's priceless blue carbuncle is stolen, a reformed thief is charged with the crime.

The Copper Beeches

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Aug 25, 1985

The Copper Beeches

Mr. Rucastle's odd requirements for governess Violet Hunter alarm her, so she seeks Holmes' advice.

The Greek Interpreter

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Sep 1, 1985

The Greek Interpreter

An unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.

The Norwood Builder

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Sep 8, 1985

The Norwood Builder

When a notorious retired builder is found dead, his recently-named heir is the prime suspect.

The Resident Patient

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Sep 15, 1985

The Resident Patient

A mysterious man sets up a new doctor in a posh practice for a percentage of the doctor's fees.

The Red-Headed League

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Sep 22, 1985

The Red-Headed League

What seems at first to be a harmless prank played upon a red-headed man is soon revealed to be much more; a sinister scheme devised by the Napoleon of Crime.

The Final Problem

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Sep 29, 1985

The Final Problem

Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Moriarty's vengeance.

Season 2

The Empty House

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jul 9, 1986

The Empty House

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.

The Abbey Grange

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Jul 16, 1986

The Abbey Grange

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.

The Musgrave Ritual

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Jul 23, 1986

The Musgrave Ritual

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

The Second Stain

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Jul 30, 1986

The Second Stain

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.

The Man with the Twisted Lip

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Aug 6, 1986

The Man with the Twisted Lip

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

The Priory School

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Aug 13, 1986

The Priory School

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

The Six Napoleons

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Aug 20, 1986

The Six Napoleons

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

The Sign of Four

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Dec 29, 1987

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The disappearance of a young woman's father, and a mysterious note years later after the strange regular annual delivery of valuable pearls to her, puts Sherlock Holmes on the case.

The Devil's Foot

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1988

The Devil's Foot

While convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers.

Silver Blaze

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1988

Silver Blaze

Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.

Wisteria Lodge

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Apr 20, 1988

Wisteria Lodge

A bored Holmes eagerly accepts a case involving the disappearance of an amateur Spanish cartographer, as well as his servants, from his rented country lodge.

The Bruce Partington Plans

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1988

The Bruce Partington Plans

Sherlock's brother, Mycroft, enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Aug 31, 1988

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When the latest heir to the Baskerville estate seems to be threatened by a family curse, only the master detective, Sherlock Holmes, can find out the truth.

Season 3

Shoscombe Old Place

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1991

Shoscombe Old Place

The horse trainer of a debt-ridden aristocrat consults Holmes about his employer's behaviour.

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1991

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

When William McCarthy is found dead, the son with whom he had just quarreled is charged with murder.

The Illustrious Client

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1991

The Illustrious Client

Sir James Damery asks Holmes to stop a general's daughter from marrying a philandering, but seductively attractive, murderer.

The Creeping Man

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1991

The Creeping Man

Holmes thinks a woman's claim to have seen a man at her upstairs bedroom window is related to the theft of several apes.

The Master Blackmailer

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1992 (132 min)

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Holmes and Watson attempt to break the grip of a ruthless blackmailer on of their clients.

The Last Vampyre

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1993

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Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of deaths which seem to be related to John Stockton, who is rumoured to be descended from a family of vampires.

The Eligible Bachelor

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1993

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Holmes suffers from disturbing dreams as he helps to find the missing wife of Lord Robert St. Simon.

Season 4

The Three Gables

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1994

The Three Gables

After her grandson's death, an old woman consults Holmes, after refusing a strange offer to buy her house including all its contents.

The Dying Detective

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1994

The Dying Detective

A man dies of a mysterious tropical disease on which his cousin, his heir, is the sole authority.

The Golden Pince-Nez

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1994

The Golden Pince-Nez

Holmes and Mycroft investigate the murder of a professor's assistant who died clutching a woman's pince-nez.

The Red Circle

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1994

The Red Circle

Mrs. Hudson asks Holmes to help her friend with a lodger who insists on nobody entering his room, and his secret past is uncovered.

The Mazarin Stone

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1994

The Mazarin Stone

Mycroft investigates when the Mazarin Stone is stolen from a museum, and Watson deals with the promise of a large inheritance if a third person with the surname of Garrideb can be found.

The Cardboard Box

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1994

The Cardboard Box

Susan Cushing asks Holmes' help in solving the disappearance of her sister Mary Browner, but it doesn't seem Holmes' type of case until he is told of a Christmas present's grisly contents.

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