The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Miniseries

11 episodes · Jul 9, 1986

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.

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  • S1E1

    The Empty House

    Jul 9, 198651m

    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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  • S1E2

    The Priory School

    Jul 16, 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.

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  • S1E3

    The Second Stain

    Jul 23, 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.

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  • S1E4

    The Musgrave Ritual

    Jul 30, 1986

    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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  • S1E5

    The Abbey Grange

    Aug 6, 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.

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  • S1E6

    The Man with the Twisted Lip

    Aug 13, 1986

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

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  • S1E7

    The Six Napoleons

    Aug 20, 1986

    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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  • S1E8

    The Devil's Foot

    Apr 6, 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.

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  • S1E9

    Silver Blaze

    Apr 13, 1988

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

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  • S1E10

    Wisteria Lodge

    Apr 20, 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.

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  • S1E11

    The Bruce Partington Plans

    Apr 27, 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.

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