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. The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway
Aired 29 January 1973 • 50 min
Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.
2. Five Hundred Carats
Aired 5 February 1973 • 50 min
Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.
3. Cell 13
Aired 12 February 1973 • 50 min
Professor Van Dusen, the 'Thinking Machine', boasts that he can think his way out of a prison cell. When he is locked up he is given the chance to prove that he can escape by the power of his mind alone.
4. The Secret of the Manifique
Aired 19 February 1973 • 50 min
Laxworthy and two friends secure the safety of the plans for the first torpedo to be used by the French navy.
5. The Absent-Minded Coterie
Aired 26 February 1973 • 50 min
Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.
6. The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist
Aired 4 March 1973 • 50 min
Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her.
7. The Superfluous Finger
Aired 11 March 1973 • 50 min
Professor Van Dusen must find out why a young woman had a perfectly healthy finger cut off by the eminent surgeon Prescott.
8. Anonymous Letters
Aired 19 March 1973 • 50 min
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dagobert Trostler investigates a poison pen case.
9. The Moabite Cypher
Aired 26 March 1973 • 50 min
Dr Thorndyke has to decypher a code to stop a plot to assassinate a Russian Grand Duke.
10. The Secret of the Foxhunter
Aired 2 April 1973 • 50 min
William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.
11. The Missing Q.C's
Aired 9 April 1973 • 50 min
Charles Dallas is led into a strange and sinister adventure in the aftermath of a sensational murder trial.
12. The Looting of the Species Room
Aired 16 April 1973 • 50 min
Gold disappears from the strongroom of the RMS Oceanic and its purser, Mr Horrocks, tries to discover what has happened.
13. The Mystery of the Amber Beads
Aired 7 May 1973 • 50 min
Hagar the Gypsy sets out to prove that Detective Sergeat Grubber is wrong about who killed Mrs Arryford.