The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes — Season 1
About this season
Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the mysteries of the Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Thor Bridge, Shoscombe Old Place, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Illustrious Client and The Creeping Man.
Episodes (9)
1. The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
Aired 21 February 1991 • 49 min
Holmes must save a suffragette after Watson meets her and notices she is troubled by a mysterious bearded man.
2. The Problem of Thor Bridge
Aired 28 February 1991 • 47 min
When a governess is arrested for shooting and killing Maria Gibson, the dead woman's husband needs Holmes's help to prove her innocent.
3. Shoscombe Old Place
Aired 7 March 1991 • 51 min
The horse trainer of a debt-ridden aristocrat consults Holmes about his employer's behaviour.
4. The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Aired 14 March 1991 • 51 min
Holmes must help James McCarthy when his father is killed after an argument (the subject of which he will not reveal) and young McCarthy is accused of the crime.
5. The Illustrious Client
Aired 21 March 1991 • 51 min
Sir James Damery asks Holmes to stop a general's daughter from marrying a philandering but seductively attractive murderer.
6. The Creeping Man
Aired 28 March 1991 • 49 min
The daughter of scientist Professor Presbury sees her father's face at her second-storey window; Holmes connects this with recent zoo thefts.
7. The Master Blackmailer
Aired 2 January 1992 • 102 min
Holmes and Watson attempt to thwart the schemes of the infamous blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton from blackmailing Lady Eva Blackwell. But things do not seem as easy as they do and Holmes must sacrifice his morality and his honourable career to stop Milverton from wrecking her marriage.
8. The Last Vampyre
Aired 27 January 1993 • 101 min
Sherlock Holmes is called upon to investigate a series of deaths which seem to be related to John Stockton, who is descended from a family rumoured to have been vampires.
9. The Eligible Bachelor
Aired 10 February 1993 • 103 min
Holmes suffers from disturbing dreams as he helps to find the missing wife of Lord Robert St. Simon.