Good Night, Mr. Holmes

Holmes is supposedly on vacation for his health - but he and Watson are interrupted by a vicar who is concerned about his parishoner Tregennis, who'd been playing cards with his siblings and then arrived the next morning to encounter them all dead or crazed. Is it poison? Or is it poison?

We're racing along Holmes and Watson as they follow Very Good Dog Toby along the Thames. A very slow so-called high-speed race and a mudbath later, and we are back at 221B, where after copious amounts of whisky, Jonathan Small (aka John Thaw, aka Endeavor Morse) tells everyone how he came by the fortune and what he's done with it.

Holmes and Watson are summoned to help Miss Mary Morstan, who has been apparently deprived of a great fortune. But what do Henry Irving, Oscar Wilde, and Bram Stoker have to do with any of it? Turns out...everything.

Five little busts of Napoleon have been stolen and smashed. Is it an obsession with the depredations of the Bonaparte campaign through Europe? It was a package of six - where is the final statuette? And how can Holmes and Watson solve this mystery?

A missing opium addict leads Holmes and Watson to another case missing persons case entirely - that of Neville St. Clair, a businessman who goes to London every day for work. But one day his wife spots him in the upper window of an opium den - and then he disappears completely, leaving behind only his overcoat, which is stuffed with loose change. An enormous yellow sponge proves the tool to solve...

Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been murdered, and Holmes and Watson rush to the crime scene. But all is not as it seems. A bell-pull, some empty glasses of port, and a "multiplex" tool (who knew they had Swiss army knives back in the day) with a corkscrew in it prove to be the deciding factors in what would be a locked room mystery...were it not for the open window.

Holmes - somewhat reluctantly, and incidentally on drugs - takes Watson to visit his old school acquaintance Reginald Musgrave, the scion of one of the oldest families in Sussex. Musgrave's butler has been acting very strangely, and there's an ancient document - a ritual - that has haunted the family since the 17th Century. Can Holmes and Watson solve the case? Of course they can - that's a given....

Holmes and Watson are visited by none other than the Prime Minister, whose Foreign Secretary has somehow lost a very important diplomatic letter. Is it a plot, of international intrigue? Or something a little closer to home? A bloodstained rug that doesn't quite line up provides Holmes with the key to the mystery.

The heir to the Duke of Holdernesse has disappeared from his posh school. Eton jackets, bicycle tires, and a search around the moors of Yorkshire leads to the limestone caves of the Hellfire Club - a site of debauchery so appealing, Benjamin Franklin visited more than once.

Sherlock Holmes's remarkable return to Baker Street, as he eliminates the last of Moriarty's gang and Watson, for some inexplicable reason, dons a fez.

In the heartbreaking finale of the first season of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Watson writes of Holmes's final showdown with his nemesis Moriarty.

A red-haired shop-owner is presented with an amazing opportunity, meant only for red-haired men - come to an office and copy out the A volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But suddenly, he reports for work and the office is shut down. What’s going on? 

A young, successful doctor comes to Holmes because his benefactor, Mr. Blessington, is freaking out - terrible dreams, night sweats, hallucinations. Soon after, Blessington hangs himself. Or does he? Holmes and Watson uncover the real story.

A young lawyer is in peril - he'd just drawn up a will for a new client, who had made the young lawyer his sole heir. But the client - a builder in Lower Norwood - appears to be dead. The lawyer is being pursued by the police for murdering the builder. Can Holmes and Watson clear the lawyer's name?

We are introduced to Mycroft Holmes! He asks Holmes and Watson to investigate the case of a Greek translator who's been abducted and forced to translate for nefarious characters.

Violet Hunter comes to Holmes and Watson for help in an unusual case: she's been offered a governess position, but the employer insists that she cut her beautiful chestnut hair. The position is odd in other ways, too - she has to wear an electric blue dress and sit by a window at certain hours of the day. The episode features a young Natasha Richardson, a lecherous and leering Joss Ackland, and a...

A beautiful - and large - blue gemstone is stolen from the Countess of Morcar while she is Christmas shopping in London. Easy enough to pin it on a hotel repairman who has a prior history of crime, but he insists that since his marriage he’s reformed. A goose-buying syndicate, an old hat, and the cheer of the Christmas season create a memorable episode for Holmes and Watson.

A deeply unpleasant stepfather, a mysterious death, sisters who are so frightened their hair has turned white - Sherlock Holmes once again rides to the rescue of a terrorized woman on the brink of leaving an unhappy home for a happy marriage. Can Holmes and Watson solve this classic locked-room mystery?

A “daughter of the regiment,” detecting footprints on a stone patio, a betrayal in the Levant, and Fiona Shaw! Holmes and Watson are called to solve the death of a retired colonel who had served in India. Supposedly the colonel had a happy marriage - but did he really? And who is David?

A lovely young music teacher, and avid bicyclist, named Violet Smith is being stalked by a bearded man in black, as she bikes from the train station to her pupil's home at a magnificent estate in Surrey. Here we see Holmes demonstrate his finest boxing form, explore the intricacies of the rites of the Church of England, and delve into the mysteries of South African gold mines - all accompanied by...

Percy Phelps, an old school friend of Watson's, has managed to lose an important treaty between Britain and Italy, and he has been in an absolute panic for weeks. How can a document disappear from a room in the Foreign Office when no one is in it? Why is Holmes shooting bullets into the wall? And exactly how much hot water does Holmes need Mrs. Hudson to bring him?

Cryptograms! Ciphers! Strange and threatening Americans! In The Dancing Men, Holmes must translate a series of drawings of stick figures that spell out a message of doom for American Elsie Cubitt, the wife of a wealthy English landowner who knew very little about her before marrying her. An episode of men turning themselves into absolute pretzels rather than ask a woman a question.

The first episode in the Granada series, A Scandal in Bohemia is the story of Irene Adler and how she beat Sherlock Holmes at his own game. Features Watson’s wandering wound, Holmes’s ability to extract information about a person from their appearance, Holmes in a number of disguises (and Jeremy Brett’s astonishing gift of inhabiting a character inhabiting another character), and the smallest pist...