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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Overview
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
Seasons
Season 1 (1971)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: A Message from the Deep Sea
1971-09-20This 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 the solution looks obvious - but is it? Neville plays the sleuth with aplomb and this is a strong opening episode. The character is arrogant, capable, and likable - and of course his intelligence makes his police colleagues and/or adversaries look like idiots!
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 2: The Missing Witness Sensation
1971-09-27Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 3: The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.
1971-10-04Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 4: The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
1971-10-11Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 5: The Horse of the Invisible
1971-10-18Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 6: The Case of the Mirror of Portugal
1971-10-25Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 7: Madame Sara
1971-11-01Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 8: The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
1971-11-08Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 9: The Woman in the Big Hat
1971-11-15Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 10: The Affair of the Tortoise
1971-11-22Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 11: The Assyrian Rejuvenator
1971-11-29Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 12: The Ripening Rubies
1971-12-02Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 13: The Case of Laker, Absconded
1971-12-09Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.
Runtime: 50 min
Season 2 (1973)
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway
1973-01-29Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 2: Five Hundred Carats
1973-02-05Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 3: Cell 13
1973-02-12Professor Van Dusen, the 'Thinking Machine', boasts that he can think his way out of a prison cell. When he is locked up he is given the chance to prove that he can escape by the power of his mind alone.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 4: The Secret of the Manifique
1973-02-19Laxworthy and two friends secure the safety of the plans for the first torpedo to be used by the French navy.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 5: The Absent-Minded Coterie
1973-02-26Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 6: The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist
1973-03-04Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 7: The Superfluous Finger
1973-03-11Professor Van Dusen must find out why a young woman had a perfectly healthy finger cut off by the eminent surgeon Prescott.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 8: Anonymous Letters
1973-03-19In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dagobert Trostler investigates a poison pen case.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 9: The Moabite Cypher
1973-03-26Dr Thorndyke has to decypher a code to stop a plot to assassinate a Russian Grand Duke.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 10: The Secret of the Foxhunter
1973-04-02William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 11: The Missing Q.C's
1973-04-09Charles Dallas is led into a strange and sinister adventure in the aftermath of a sensational murder trial.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 12: The Looting of the Species Room
1973-04-16Gold disappears from the strongroom of the RMS Oceanic and its purser, Mr Horrocks, tries to discover what has happened.
Runtime: 50 minEpisode 13: The Mystery of the Amber Beads
1973-05-07Hagar the Gypsy sets out to prove that Detective Sergeat Grubber is wrong about who killed Mrs Arryford.
Runtime: 50 min
