The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Crooked Man

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Crooked Man

Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. “The Crooked Man” is an interesting episode for a couple of reasons. The entire episode, except for the epilogue, take place outside of Baker Street. Also, it becomes a case in search of murder that reveals that no murder actually occurred. Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) and Watson (David Burke) are hired to look into the death of Colonel James Barclay (Denys Hawthorne) whose body was discovered along with that of his uncurious wife Nancy (Lisa Daniely) in a locked room after an argument.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Solitary Cyclist

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Solitary Cyclist

Sherlock Sunday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. “The Solitary Cyclist” offers an example of  Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) being too slow to act nearly spelling disaster for his client Violet Smith (Barbara Wilshere) who hires the detective after noticing an odd man following her every week on her journey to and from the train station. The truth behind the mystery has to do with the sudden interest in the young woman from Mr. Carruthers (John Castle), whose daughter she is now tutoring, and the far less agreeable Mr. Woodley (Michael Siberry), following the death of her uncle overseas.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Naval Treaty

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Naval Treaty

Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A letter from Percy Phelps (David Gwillim), an old schoolmate of Watson (David Burke), leads Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) to investigate the theft of secret naval treaty has been stolen from his office at the Foreign Office. The theft has left him in a state of ill-health for several weeks convalescing at home with his fiancée (Alison Skilbeck) and her brother (Gareth Thomas) at a loss as to what happened to the plans or how to salvage his reputation.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – The Dancing Men

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Dancing Men

Sherlock Sunday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. A baffled Hilton Cubitt (Tenniel Evans) travels to London to hire Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) about some unusual drawings which have scared his wife (Betsy Brantley) nearly to death. After finding a pattern and dismissing them as more than simple vandalism, Holmes sets out to break the code arriving at the true answer too late to prevent tragedy from striking at Riding Horse Manor.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – A Scandal in Bohemia

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“There was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.”

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia

Sherlock Saturday takes us back to 221 B Baker Street and the Granada Television’s faithful adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The first episode of the series introduces us to Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) and Dr. John Watson (David Burke) in one of the detective’s most famous cases: “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Hired by the King of Bohemia (Wolf Kahler), Holmes takes on the case to retrieve a compromising photograph from the home of Irene Adler (Gayle Hunnicutt) who the king is certain plans to use the photo to ruin his upcoming nuptials. 

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