The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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.
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1.A Message from the Deep Sea
8.520-09-197150 minThis 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 th...
2.The Missing Witness Sensation
7.527-09-197150 minMax 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.
6.004-10-197150 minHorace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
4.The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
7.511-10-197150 minSimon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
5.The Horse of the Invisible
6.518-10-197150 minCarnacki 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
5.525-10-197150 minHorace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
7.Madame Sara
7.001-11-197150 minDixon Duce helps solve a murder case.
8.The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
6.508-11-197150 minJonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
9.The Woman in the Big Hat
7.015-11-197150 minLady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
10.The Affair of the Tortoise
8.022-11-197150 minArhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
11.The Assyrian Rejuvenator
7.029-11-197150 minConman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
12.The Ripening Rubies
8.002-12-197150 minBernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
13.The Case of Laker, Absconded
7.009-12-197150 minArthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.
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