About this season
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.
Episodes (13)
1. A Message from the Deep Sea
8.0Aired 20 September 1971 • 50 min
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!
2. The Missing Witness Sensation
7.0Aired 27 September 1971 • 50 min
Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.
3. The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.
6.0Aired 4 October 1971 • 50 min
Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
4. The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
7.0Aired 11 October 1971 • 50 min
Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
5. The Horse of the Invisible
6.0Aired 18 October 1971 • 50 min
Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.
6. The Case of the Mirror of Portugal
6.0Aired 25 October 1971 • 50 min
Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
7. Madame Sara
7.0Aired 1 November 1971 • 50 min
Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.
8. The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
6.0Aired 8 November 1971 • 50 min
Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
9. The Woman in the Big Hat
7.0Aired 15 November 1971 • 50 min
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
10. The Affair of the Tortoise
Aired 22 November 1971 • 50 min
Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
11. The Assyrian Rejuvenator
Aired 29 November 1971 • 50 min
Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
12. The Ripening Rubies
Aired 2 December 1971 • 50 min
Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
13. The Case of Laker, Absconded
Aired 9 December 1971 • 50 min
Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.