Sherlock Holmes The Complete Series - Ronald Howard - 1954 - 1955

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Based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. John Watson
returns from Afghanistan, and decides to share lodgings in Baker Street
with Sherlock Holmes, an acquaintance of one of Watson's own friends.
Not long afterward, Holmes brings Watson with him when he solves a murder
case that has confused Inspector Lestrade. Watson soon becomes Holmes's
friend, assistant, and chronicler, as the private detective takes on one
baffling case after another.

Cast

Ronald Howard ... Sherlock Holmes (39 episodes, 1954-1955)
Howard Marion-Crawford ... Dr. John H. Watson (39 episodes, 1954-1955)
Archie Duncan ... Inspector Lestrade / ... (31 episodes, 1954-1955)
Richard Larke ... Sgt. Wilkins / ... (16 episodes, 1954-1955)

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S1, Ep1

18 Oct. 1954

The Case of the Cunningham Heritage

Dr. John Watson meets private detective Sherlock Holmes, and assists
him in solving a case that has confused Inspector Lestrade.

S1, Ep2

25 Oct. 1954 The Case of Lady Beryl

Lady Beryl confesses to a murder that was committed at her home,
but Sherlock Holmes is convinced that she is innocent.


S1, Ep3

1 Nov. 1954

The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun

Holmes and Watson travel to Sussex to investigate the murder of
Squire Douglas, who was shot to death in a sealed-up castle,
with only two apparent suspects.


S1, Ep4

8 Nov. 1954

The Case of the Texas Cowgirl

A cowgirl from a visiting rodeo show asks Sherlock Holmes to
help her when she discovers a dead man in her hotel room.


S1, Ep5

15 Nov. 1954

The Case of the Belligerent Ghost

When Dr. Watson thinks that he has seen a ghost, it puts Sherlock
Holmes on a trail that leads to a crime at an art museum.


S1, Ep6

22 Nov. 1954

The Case of the Shy Ballerina

Dr. Watson accidentally comes home from his club with another man's
coat, providing an important clue when the other man is murdered
late that same night.


S1, Ep7

29 Nov. 1954

The Case of the Winthrop Legend

Sherlock Holmes seeks a rational explanation for the Winthrop family
legend, which foretells the death of any family member who unexpectedly
finds silver coins in his possession.


S1, Ep8

6 Dec. 1954

The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff

The only clue at the site of two grisly murders is a chicken's foot.
Baffled, Insp. Lestrade goes to Sherlock Holmes for assistance.


S1, Ep9

13 Dec. 1954

The Case of Harry Crocker

Vaudeville escape artist Harry Crocker turns to Sherlock Holmes for
help when he is accused of strangling a chorus girl.


S1, Ep10

20 Dec. 1954

The Mother Hubbard Case

Sherlock Holmes tracks down a murderer who uses a young girl to
lure victims to empty houses, where they are killed.


S1, Ep11

27 Dec. 1954

The Case of the Red Headed League

Sherlock Holmes investigates a strange story told to him by a
shopkeeper, who claims to have been a member of the
'League of Red-Headed Men' until it unexpectedly dissolved.


S1, Ep12

3 Jan. 1955

The Case of the Shoeless Engineer

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are spending a restful day in
the country, when they encounter a badly injured man who is
carrying an unconscious young woman. They take the pair back
to their flat in London, and after Dr. Watson has treated them,
the man explains what has happened to them. He is Haterley, a
hydraulic engineer with a business of his own. He had been hired
by Colonel Stark and an associate, who wanted him to fix a large
hydraulic press for them. He was taken to the colonel's country
home, where their housekeeper tried frantically to warn him about Stark....


S1, Ep13

10 Jan. 1955

The Case of the Split Ticket

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return to their flat to find
Brian O'Casey waiting for them. The over-excited O'Casey struggles
to get his points across, but eventually he explains how he, his
friend Albert, and a young woman whom he met in a bakery shop shared
the price of a sweepstakes ticket, tearing the ticket into three pieces,
one for each of them to hold. Their number won, and they each stand to
win 8,000 pounds. But now Albert has disappeared, and unless the other
two can find him by midnight, the ticket will expire, and then they
won't be able to collect their...


S1, Ep14

17 Jan. 1955

The Case of the French Interpreter

Dr. Watson urgently fetches Sherlock Holmes from his club, and brings
him to see a French interpreter who urgently needs the detective. The
interpreter, M. Dubec, explains how his services were requested by a
man named Lattimer, who then abducted him and took him to an unknown
location. There Dubec was asked to persuade a Frenchman to sign some
papers for Lattimer and an associate, so that they can gain control
over his sister's wealth. The case becomes more urgent when the criminals
find out about Dubec's meeting with Holmes, and once again take him to their hidden ...


S1, Ep15

24 Jan. 1955

The Case of the Singing Violin

Betty is being tormented by apparent hallucinations, the latest of
which she refers to as a 'singing violin'. Her stepfather brings her
fiancé to see her in this condition, and he tells the young man that
there can be no wedding, because Betty is going to be declared insane.
The fiancé goes to consult Sherlock Holmes, but he is murdered before
he can see the detective. When Inspector Lestrade consults Holmes about
the murder, Holmes recognizes the name of the dead man and also of the
step-father, who is the lone surviving partner in a large tea and
spice business....


S1, Ep16

31 Jan. 1955

The Case of the Greystone Inscription

Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé
John has disappeared. John has recently been absorbed in his historical
study, believing that he has made an important discovery. All that Millicent
knows about it is that John was planning to see Sir Thomas Greystone. She
tells Holmes about her visit to Greystone Castle, where she was received
coldly by the Greystones, and was told that they had never seen John.
Holmes proceeds to John's flat to look at his research papers, and he finds
a copy of a historical inscription that he then takes with ...


S1, Ep17

7 Feb. 1955

The Case of the Laughing Mummy

Sherlock Holmes helps one of Dr. Watson's old friends by explaining the
source of an odd noise in the man's home, but in doing so Holmes uncovers
a more serious mystery.

S1, Ep18

14 Feb. 1955

The Case of the Thistle Killer

Sherlock Holmes helps Scotland Yard to track down a killer who has been
leaving three thistles next to each of the women he has murdered.


S1, Ep19

21 Feb. 1955

Case of the Vanished Detective

When Sherlock Holmes disappears, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade
begin a search that leads them to a small shop.


S1, Ep20

28 Feb. 1955

The Case of the Careless Suffragette

A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball,
intending only to draw attention to her cause, but it is switched
with a real croquet ball and explodes, killing a member of Parliament.


S1, Ep21

7 Mar. 1955

The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter

Sherlock Holmes races against time in order to find the location of a
bomb that was planted somewhere in London by an extortionist.


S1, Ep22

14 Mar. 1955

The Case of the Deadly Prophecy

Holmes and Watson are called to a boy's school in Belgium. It seems
that a young student has gotten into the habit of writing the names
of faculty members on the steps of a nearby church, and shortly afterwards
person whose name has been written down is found dead.


S1, Ep23

4 Apr. 1955

The Case of the Christmas Pudding

When a serial killer is sentenced to death, he issues a threat that
he will kill Sherlock Holmes before he himself is executed.


S1, Ep24

11 Apr. 1955

The Night Train Riddle

A young boy and his father are traveling on a train, and after they
have a fight, the boy runs out of the compartment and seems to have
vanished into thin air. Although his governess thinks he has simply
run away, Holmes begins to suspect something a bit more serious, and
his investigation leads him to a nearby circus.


S1, Ep25

18 Apr. 1955

The Case of the Violent Suitor

"Aunt Lottie", an advice columnist who is actually a man named Alex Doogle,
advises a young woman to break up with her violent fiancé, Jack Murdock.
The groom-to-be pretends to be wealthy to mask his motive of acquiring the
wealth of his intended bride. He finds Doogle, severely beats him and threatens
his life. Doogle turns to Sherlock Holmes, both for his own protection and to
save the young woman from her crazed fiancé.


S1, Ep26

25 Apr. 1955

The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids

A baby is left on Holmes' and Watson's doorstep. The child turns out to be the
son of a missing French scientist. When Watson is later brutally attacked and
the baby kidnapped, the detectives must find the baby and its father and avoid
an international scandal.


S1, Ep27

2 May 1955

The Case of the Perfect Husband

Russell Partridge announces to his wife Janet one day that he is in fact a killer
who has murdered his six previous wives, and notifies her that she has one day to
live and get her affairs in order before he murders her, too. Janet can get no one
to believe her tale, except Holmes and Watson, who must devise a plan to trap the
killer before Janet's time runs out.


S1, Ep28

9 May 1955

The Case of the Jolly Hangman

A traveling salesman is found hanged in his hotel room. Although the police
eventually rule it to be a suicide, his widow thinks otherwise and asks Holmes
to investigate the mysterious "suicide" further.


S1, Ep29

16 May 1955

The Case of the Imposter Mystery

While Holmes and Watson are out of London on vacation, someone has taken the
opportunity to impersonate Holmes - to a great profit.


S1, Ep30

23 May 1955

The Case of the Eiffel Tower

After a famous criminal is run over and killed by a milk wagon, Insp. Lestrade
finds a mysterious coded note in the man's clothing. He asks Holmes to decipher
it, and Holmes' subsequent investigation leads him to assume the dead gangster's
identity and he follows a trail of clues to Paris.


S1, Ep31

30 May 1955

The Case of the Exhumed Client

Sir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his mysterious Farnsworth Castle. It turns
out that Farnsworth had a clause inserted in this will that his death, no matter
what the apparent cause, would be investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes'
investigation reveals traces of arsenic in the man's body, and there seems to be no
shortage of people who knew Sir Charles who wanted him dead.


S1, Ep32

6 Jun. 1955

The Case of the Impromptu Performance

A condemned man scheduled to hang the next day uses his last request to ask Sherlock
Holmes to prove his innocence of the murder for which he is about to be executed.


S1, Ep33

20 Jun. 1955

The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors

A political leader is being blackmailed, and to find the blackmailers, Holmes and
Watson join a lonely hearts club. However, things don't go quite as planned, and
Holmes winds up getting arrested and thrown in jail.


S1, Ep34

27 Jun. 1955

The Case of the Royal Murder

As payment for solving a case, Holmes and Watson are invited to spend a weekend at
an estate in the Balkans. However, their vacation is cut short when another guest,
Prince Stefan, is poisoned and their host is accused of the murder. Holmes must
find the real killer before he himself becomes the next victim.


S1, Ep35

4 Jul. 1955

The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough

Malcolm MacGregan will lose his family's Scottish castle if he can't make the
mortgage payment, by midnight.


S1, Ep36

11 Jul. 1955

The Case of the Neurotic Detective

Watson believes Holmes is a criminal master-mind, but all is not as it seems.


S1, Ep37

18 Jul. 1955

The Case of the Unlucky Gambler

A young boy shows up at Baker Street, asking for Holmes' help in finding his
missing father. Holmes' investigation reveals that the man is a gambler on the
run from his creditors, and the team begins to make the rounds of the seedy
gambling underworld in search of the boy's father.


S1, Ep38

19 Sep. 1955

The Case of the Diamond Tooth

Whole walking along the banks of the River Thames, Watson finds a diamond tooth.
The article takes on more meaning later, however, when Holmes learns that the body
of a murder victim had been discovered near where Watson found the tooth.


S1, Ep39

17 Oct. 1955

The Case of the Tyrant's Daughter

A chemist is accused of the murder of his fiancé's stepfather, who was determined
to keep the two apart. Although there is mounting evidence of the chemist's guilt,
Holmes is requested by the old man's housekeeper to investigate the case, as she
believes the young man to be innocent.