The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
198611 episodes
In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.
Episodes
- E1
The Empty House
10.01986-07-09 · 51m
Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Moriarity three years ago, Holmes returns to England to foil a murder plot against him by a former Moriarity gang member.
- E2
The Priory School
6.01986-07-16
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.
- E3
The Second Stain
6.01986-07-23
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.
- E4
The Musgrave Ritual
8.01986-07-30
An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.
- E5
The Abbey Grange
4.01986-08-06
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.
- E6
The Man with the Twisted Lip
1.01986-08-13
Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.
- E7
The Six Napoleons
7.01986-08-20
Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been inexplicably breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of breaking small busts of Napoleon.
- E8
The Devil's Foot
1988-04-06
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.
- E9
Silver Blaze
9.01988-04-13
Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.
- E10
Wisteria Lodge
1988-04-20
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.
- E11
The Bruce Partington Plans
9.01988-04-27
Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.