The Return of Sherlock Holmes

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.

• Ep 1

  1.The Empty House

  10.0

  09-07-198651 min

  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.

• Ep 2

  2.The Priory School

  6.0

  16-07-1986

  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.

• Ep 3

  3.The Second Stain

  6.0

  23-07-1986

  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.

• Ep 4

  4.The Musgrave Ritual

  8.0

  30-07-1986

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

• Ep 5

  5.The Abbey Grange

  4.0

  06-08-1986

  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.

• Ep 6

  6.The Man with the Twisted Lip

  1.0

  13-08-1986

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

• Ep 7

  7.The Six Napoleons

  7.0

  20-08-1986

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

• Ep 8

  8.The Devil's Foot

  06-04-1988

  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.

• Ep 9

  9.Silver Blaze

  9.0

  13-04-1988

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

• Ep 10

  10.Wisteria Lodge

  20-04-1988

  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.

• Ep 11

  11.The Bruce Partington Plans

  9.0

  27-04-1988

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