The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Mystery • Series

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 2 Episodes

S2E1
E1
The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway
50 min 1973

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

S2E2
E2
Five Hundred Carats
50 min 1973

Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.

S2E3
E3
Cell 13
50 min 1973

Professor Van Dusen, the 'Thinking Machine', boasts that he can think his way out of a prison cell. When he is locked up…

S2E4
E4
The Secret of the Manifique
50 min 1973

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

S2E5
E5
The Absent-Minded Coterie
50 min 1973

Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.

S2E6
E6
The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist
50 min 1973

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

S2E7
E7
The Superfluous Finger
50 min 1973

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

S2E8
E8
Anonymous Letters
50 min 1973

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

S2E9
E9
The Moabite Cypher
50 min 1973

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

S2E10
E10
The Secret of the Foxhunter
50 min 1973

William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.

S2E11
E11
The Missing Q.C's
50 min 1973

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

S2E12
E12
The Looting of the Species Room
50 min 1973

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

S2E13
E13
The Mystery of the Amber Beads
50 min 1973

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

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