The third series featuring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr Watson follows the mysteries of the disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Thor Bridge, Shoscombe Old Place, the Boscombe Valley, an illustrious client, and a creeping man.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Season 1)
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (Episode 1)
Air date: 1991-02-21
Runtime: 49 min
Overview: Holmes must save a suffragette after Watson meets her and notices she is troubled by a mysterious bearded man.
The Problem of Thor Bridge (Episode 2)
Air date: 1991-02-28
Runtime: 47 min
Overview: When a governess is arrested for shooting and killing Maria Gibson, the dead woman's husband needs Holmes's help to prove her innocent.
Shoscombe Old Place (Episode 3)
Air date: 1991-03-07
Runtime: 51 min
Overview: The horse trainer of a debt-ridden aristocrat consults Holmes about his employer's behaviour.
The Boscombe Valley Mystery (Episode 4)
Air date: 1991-03-14
Runtime: 51 min
Overview: 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.
The Illustrious Client (Episode 5)
Air date: 1991-03-21
Runtime: 51 min
Overview: Sir James Damery asks Holmes to stop a general's daughter from marrying a philandering but seductively attractive murderer.
The Creeping Man (Episode 6)
Air date: 1991-03-28
Runtime: 49 min
Overview: The daughter of scientist Professor Presbury sees her father's face at her second-storey window; Holmes connects this with recent zoo thefts.
The Master Blackmailer (Episode 7)
Air date: 1992-01-02
Runtime: 102 min
Overview: 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.
The Last Vampyre (Episode 8)
Air date: 1993-01-27
Runtime: 101 min
Overview: 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.
The Eligible Bachelor (Episode 9)
Air date: 1993-02-10
Runtime: 103 min
Overview: Holmes suffers from disturbing dreams as he helps to find the missing wife of Lord Robert St. Simon.
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