The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes  - TV series (1971)

Original title

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Released

9/20/1971

Origin country

GB

Genre

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Production companies

Thames Television, Pearson Television International

Status

Ended

Number of seasons

2

Number of episodes

26

Description

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.

Сезони

Season 1

Season 1

13 серій

20/09/1971

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A Message from the Deep Sea

20/09/1971

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!

The Missing Witness Sensation

27/09/1971

Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.

The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.

Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.

The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds

Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.

The Horse of the Invisible

18/10/1971

Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.

The Case of the Mirror of Portugal

25/10/1971

Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.

Madame Sara

7. Madame Sara

01/11/1971

Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.

The Case of the Dixon Torpedo

08/11/1971

Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.

The Woman in the Big Hat

15/11/1971

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.

The Affair of the Tortoise

22/11/1971

Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.

The Assyrian Rejuvenator

29/11/1971

Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.

The Ripening Rubies

02/12/1971

Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.

The Case of Laker, Absconded

09/12/1971

Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.

Season 2

Season 2

13 серій

29/01/1973

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The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.

Five Hundred Carats

2. Five Hundred Carats

05/02/1973

Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.

Cell 13

3. Cell 13

12/02/1973

Professor Van Dusen, the 'Thinking Machine', boasts that he can think his way out of a prison cell. When he is locked up he is given the chance to prove that he can escape by the power of his mind alone.

The Secret of the Manifique

19/02/1973

Laxworthy and two friends secure the safety of the plans for the first torpedo to be used by the French navy.

The Absent-Minded Coterie

26/02/1973

Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.

The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist

Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her.

The Superfluous Finger

11/03/1973

Professor Van Dusen must find out why a young woman had a perfectly healthy finger cut off by the eminent surgeon Prescott.

Anonymous Letters

8. Anonymous Letters

19/03/1973

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dagobert Trostler investigates a poison pen case.

The Moabite Cypher

9. The Moabite Cypher

26/03/1973

Dr Thorndyke has to decypher a code to stop a plot to assassinate a Russian Grand Duke.

The Secret of the Foxhunter

02/04/1973

William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.

The Missing Q.C's

11. The Missing Q.C's

09/04/1973

Charles Dallas is led into a strange and sinister adventure in the aftermath of a sensational murder trial.

The Looting of the Species Room

16/04/1973

Gold disappears from the strongroom of the RMS Oceanic and its purser, Mr Horrocks, tries to discover what has happened.

The Mystery of the Amber Beads

07/05/1973

Hagar the Gypsy sets out to prove that Detective Sergeat Grubber is wrong about who killed Mrs Arryford.

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