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13 episodes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Return of Sherlock Holmes

First aired Jul 9, 1986Season 1

In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Empty House

10.0
Jul 9, 198651 min1 votes

Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Moriarity three years ago, Holmes returns to England to foil a murder plot against him by a former Moriarity gang member.

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Episode 2

The Priory School

6.0
Jul 16, 198652 min1 votes

The headmaster of a prestigious prep school calls on Holmes for help when the ten year old only son of powerful but publicity-shy duke disappears.

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Episode 3

The Second Stain

6.0
Jul 23, 198651 min1 votes

Holmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war.

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Episode 4

The Musgrave Ritual

8.0
Jul 30, 198652 min1 votes

An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.

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Episode 5

The Abbey Grange

4.0
Aug 6, 198652 min1 votes

Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.

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Episode 6

The Man with the Twisted Lip

1.0
Aug 13, 198652 min1 votes

Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.

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Episode 7

The Six Napoleons

7.0
Aug 20, 198652 min1 votes

Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been inexplicably breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of breaking small busts of Napoleon.

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Episode 8

The Devil's Foot

NR
Apr 6, 198852 min

While convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers.

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Episode 9

Silver Blaze

9.0
Apr 13, 198851 min1 votes

Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.

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Episode 10

Wisteria Lodge

NR
Apr 20, 198851 min

A bored Holmes eagerly accepts a case involving the disappearance of an amateur Spanish cartographer as well as his servants from his rented country lodge.

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Episode 11

The Bruce Partington Plans

9.0
Apr 27, 198852 min1 votes

Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.

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Episode 12

The Hound of the Baskervilles

NR
May 4, 1988103 min

Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on Dartmoor, with his face contorted in terror and the footprints of a huge dog near his body. On arrival in England, Sir Charles's American heir, now Sir Henry Baskerville, engages Holmes to come to Devon and get to the bottom of the age-old legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles - a phantom which kills.From the outset, Holmes is convinced there is a human murderer at work and he lays a deep plan to foil him.

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Episode 13

The Sign of Four

NR
May 11, 1988103 min

For years after her father's disappearance, the beautiful Miss Mary Morstan receives anonymously every year one large and valuable pearl. When, finally, an invitation arrives to meet the mysterious pearl-giver, Mary Morstan seeks Holmes's advice, and he begins to unravel some remarkable clues, including a poison dart and a man with a wooden leg. What Holmes finds is an old soldier who is determined to punish those who betrayed him and his friends by stealing their oriental treasure.

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