The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

7.5/10 1971 2 Seasons 26 Episodes Ended

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.

Season: 1 2

Season 1 Episodes

S1E1
E1
A Message from the Deep Sea
50 min 1971

This episode features Dr Thorndyke, played by John Neville, who is first a medical man and second a solver of mysteries.…

S1E2
E2
The Missing Witness Sensation
50 min 1971

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

S1E3
E3
The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.
50 min 1971

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

S1E4
E4
The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
50 min 1971

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

S1E5
E5
The Horse of the Invisible
50 min 1971

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

S1E6
E6
The Case of the Mirror of Portugal
50 min 1971

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

S1E7
E7
Madame Sara
50 min 1971

Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.

S1E8
E8
The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
50 min 1971

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

S1E9
E9
The Woman in the Big Hat
50 min 1971

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

S1E10
E10
The Affair of the Tortoise
50 min 1971

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

S1E11
E11
The Assyrian Rejuvenator
50 min 1971

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

S1E12
E12
The Ripening Rubies
50 min 1971

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

S1E13
E13
The Case of Laker, Absconded
50 min 1971

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

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