Sherlock Holmes - Season 1

Episodes

The Case of the Texas Cowgirl

A cowgirl comes into her hotel room and finds a dead man. So she asks Sherlock to investigate.

Nov 8, 1954

Season 1Episode 530 min

The Case of the Belligerent Ghost

When Dr. Watson thinks that he has seen a ghost, it puts Sherlock Holmes on a trail that leads to a crime at an art museum.

Nov 15, 1954

Season 1Episode 630 min

The Case of the Shy Ballerina

Dr. Watson accidentally comes home from his club with another man's coat, providing an important clue when the other man is murdered late that same night.

Nov 22, 1954

Season 1Episode 730 min

The Case of the Winthrop Legend

Sherlock Holmes seeks a rational explanation for the Winthrop family legend, which foretells the death of any family member who unexpectedly finds silver coins in his possession.

Nov 29, 1954

Season 1Episode 830 min

The Case of the Blind Mans Bluff

The only clue at the site of two grisly murders is a chicken's foot. Baffled, Insp. Lestrade goes to Sherlock Holmes for assistance.

Dec 6, 1954

Season 1Episode 930 min

The Case of Harry Crocker

Vaudeville escape artist Harry Crocker turns to Sherlock Holmes for help when he is accused of strangling a chorus girl.

Dec 6, 1954

Season 1Episode 1030 min

The Mother Hubbard Case

Sherlock Holmes tracks down a murderer who uses a young girl to lure victims to empty houses, where they are killed.

Dec 20, 1954

Season 1Episode 1130 min

The Red Headed League

Sherlock Holmes investigates a strange story told to him by a shopkeeper, who claims to have been a member of the 'League of Red-Headed Men' until it unexpectedly dissolved.

Dec 27, 1954

Season 1Episode 1230 min

The Case of the Shoeless Engineer

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are spending a restful day in the country, when they encounter a badly injured man who is carrying an unconscious young woman. They take the pair back to their flat in London, and after Dr. Watson has treated them, the man explains what has happened to them. He is Haterley, a hydraulic engineer with a business of his own. He had been hired by Colonel Stark and an associate, who wanted him to fix a large hydraulic press for them. He was taken to the colonel's country home, where their housekeeper tried frantically to warn him about Stark. After a tumultuous encounter, he and the housekeeper had barely escaped with their lives. From other details, Holmes deduces that Stark was involved in counterfeiting. Holmes, Watson, and Inspector Lestrade then set out to finish the case.

Jan 3, 1955

Season 1Episode 1330 min

The Case of the Split Ticket

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return to their flat to find Brian O'Casey waiting for them. The over-excited O'Casey struggles to get his points across, but eventually he explains how he, his friend Albert, and a young woman whom he met in a bakery shop shared the price of a sweepstakes ticket, tearing the ticket into three pieces, one for each of them to hold. Their number won, and they each stand to win 8,000 pounds. But now Albert has disappeared, and unless the other two can find him by midnight, the ticket will expire, and then they won't be able to collect their winnings.

Jan 10, 1955

Season 1Episode 1430 min

The Case of the French Interpreter

Dr. Watson urgently fetches Sherlock Holmes from his club, and brings him to see a French interpreter who urgently needs the detective. The interpreter, M. Dubec, explains how his services were requested by a man named Lattimer, who then abducted him and took him to an unknown location. There Dubec was asked to persuade a Frenchman to sign some papers for Lattimer and an associate, so that they can gain control over his sister's wealth. The case becomes more urgent when the criminals find out about Dubec's meeting with Holmes, and once again take him to their hidden location.

Jan 17, 1955

Season 1Episode 1530 min

The Case of the Singing Violin

Betty is being tormented by apparent hallucinations, the latest of which she refers to as a 'singing violin'. Her stepfather brings her fiancé to see her in this condition, and he tells the young man that there can be no wedding, because Betty is going to be declared insane. The fiancé goes to consult Sherlock Holmes, but he is murdered before he can see the detective. When Inspector Lestrade consults Holmes about the murder, Holmes recognizes the name of the dead man and also of the step-father, who is the lone surviving partner in a large tea and spice business. Holmes quickly forms a theory about the murder, and sets out to prove it.

Jan 24, 1955

Season 1Episode 1630 min

The Case of the Greystone Inscription

Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John. Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with him to Greystone Castle.Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John. Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with him to Greystone Castle.

Jan 31, 1955

Season 1Episode 1730 min

The Case of the Laughing Mummy

Sherlock Holmes helps one of Dr. Watson's old friends by explaining the source of an odd noise in the man's home, but in doing so Holmes uncovers a more serious mystery.

Feb 7, 1955

Season 1Episode 1830 min

The Case of the Thistle Killer

Sherlock Holmes helps Scotland Yard to track down a killer who has been leaving three thistles next to each of the women he has murdered.

Feb 14, 1955

Season 1Episode 1930 min

The Case of the Vanished Detective

Sherlock Holmes has disappeared for two days, and Dr. Watson asks Inspector Lestrade to help find him.

Feb 21, 1955

Season 1Episode 2030 min

The Case of the Careless Suffragette

A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball, intending only to draw attention to her cause, but it is switched with a real croquet ball and explodes, killing a member of Parliament.

Feb 28, 1955

Season 1Episode 2130 min

The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter

Sherlock Holmes races against time in order to find the location of a bomb that was planted somewhere in London by an extortionist.

Mar 7, 1955

Season 1Episode 2230 min

The Case of the Deadly Prophecy

Holmes and Watson are called to a boy's school in Belgium. It seems that a young student has gotten into the habit of writing the names of faculty members on the steps of a nearby church, and shortly afterwards person whose name has been written down is found dead.

Mar 14, 1955

Season 1Episode 2330 min

The Case of the Christmas Pudding

When a serial killer is sentenced to death, he issues a threat that he will kill Sherlock Holmes before he himself is executed.

Apr 4, 1955

Season 1Episode 2430 min

The Case of the Night Train Riddle

A young boy and his father are traveling on a train, and after they have a fight, the boy runs out of the compartment and seems to have vanished into thin air. Although his governess thinks he has simply run away, Holmes begins to suspect something a bit more serious, and his investigation leads him to a nearby circus.

Apr 11, 1955

Season 1Episode 2530 min

The Case of the Violent Suitor

Holmes is trying to prevent the marriage of a violent suitor who wants to marry to a rich heiress solely for money.

Apr 18, 1955

Season 1Episode 2630 min

The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids

A baby is left on Holmes' and Watson's doorstep. The child turns out to be the son of a missing French scientist. When Watson is later brutally attacked and the baby kidnapped, the detectives must find the baby and its father and avoid an international scandal.

Apr 25, 1955

Season 1Episode 2730 min

The Case of the Perfect Husband

A man tells his wife he is going to kill her and that he killed seven times already. Upon realising he might be serious, she visits Inspector Lestrade who doesn't believe her... but Holmes does.

May 2, 1955

Season 1Episode 2830 min

The Case of the Jolly Hangman

Jessie Hooper hires Holmes to find her missing husband, William, and -- with the help of Lestrade's cousin MacDougal of Glasgow -- he his found hung -- like his grandfather. A rope salesman's laugh is the key clue. It is ironically the window that William never returned to repair that traps villain by his tie.

May 9, 1955

Season 1Episode 2930 min

The Case of the Imposter Mystery

Holmes and Watson return from a vacation at Brighton to find an impostor has been impersonating Holmes, misadvising Lestrade to guard Hambleburg's not Carrolton's jewelry store and Sir Arthur to hide his valuables in the biscuit jar. Fighting impersonation with impersonation, Watson becomes the maharaja of Gampoor.

May 16, 1955

Season 1Episode 3030 min

The Case of the Eiffel Tower

After a famous criminal is run over and killed by a milk truck, Insp. Lestrade finds a mysterious coded note in the man's clothing. He asks Holmes to decipher it, and Holmes' subsequent investigation leads him to assume the dead gangster's identity and he follows a trail of clues to Paris.

May 23, 1955

Season 1Episode 3130 min

The Case of the Exhumed Client

Sir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his mysterious Farnsworth Castle. It turns out that Farnsworth had a clause inserted in this will that his death, no matter what the apparent cause, would be investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes' investigation reveals traces of arsenic in the man's body, and there seems to be no shortage of people who knew Sir Charles who wanted him dead.

May 30, 1955

Season 1Episode 3230 min

The Case of the Impromtu Performance

Prisoner about to be executed requests to meet Sherlock Holmes as his last wish. Upon telling what happened, Holmes and Watson race against the clock to clear the guy's name.

Jun 6, 1955