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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

All Episodes 1971 - 1973
TV-PG

  • Ended
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  • 1971-09-20T20:00:00Z
  • 50m
  • 21h 40m (26 episodes)
  • Hugh Greene
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Pearson Television International + 1 more, Thames Television
  • Drama, Mystery, Crime
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1971-09-20T20:00:00Z

1x01 A Message from the Deep Sea

Series Premiere

1x01 A Message from the Deep Sea

  • 1971-09-20T20:00:00Z50m

This 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!

Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.

Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.

Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.

1x05 The Horse of the Invisible

  • 1971-10-18T20:00:00Z50m

Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.

Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.

1971-11-01T21:00:00Z

1x07 Madame Sara

1x07 Madame Sara

  • 1971-11-01T21:00:00Z50m

Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.

Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.

1971-11-15T21:00:00Z

1x09 The Woman in the Big Hat

1x09 The Woman in the Big Hat

  • 1971-11-15T21:00:00Z50m

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.

1x10 The Affair of the Tortoise

  • 1971-11-22T21:00:00Z50m

Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.

1971-11-29T21:00:00Z

1x11 The Assyrian Rejuvenator

1x11 The Assyrian Rejuvenator

  • 1971-11-29T21:00:00Z50m

Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.

1971-12-02T21:00:00Z

1x12 The Ripening Rubies

1x12 The Ripening Rubies

  • 1971-12-02T21:00:00Z50m

Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.

Season Finale

1971-12-09T21:00:00Z

1x13 The Case of Laker, Absconded

Season Finale

1x13 The Case of Laker, Absconded

  • 1971-12-09T21:00:00Z50m

Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.

Season Premiere

1973-01-29T21:00:00Z

2x01 The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

Season Premiere

2x01 The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

  • 1973-01-29T21:00:00Z50m

Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.

1973-02-05T21:00:00Z

2x02 Five Hundred Carats

2x02 Five Hundred Carats

  • 1973-02-05T21:00:00Z50m

Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.

1973-02-12T21:00:00Z

2x03 Cell 13

2x03 Cell 13

  • 1973-02-12T21:00:00Z50m

Professor 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.

2x04 The Secret of the Manifique

  • 1973-02-19T21:00:00Z50m

Laxworthy and two friends secure the safety of the plans for the first torpedo to be used by the French navy.

1973-02-26T21:00:00Z

2x05 The Absent-Minded Coterie

2x05 The Absent-Minded Coterie

  • 1973-02-26T21:00:00Z50m

Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.

Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her.

1973-03-11T21:00:00Z

2x07 The Superfluous Finger

2x07 The Superfluous Finger

  • 1973-03-11T21:00:00Z50m

Professor Van Dusen must find out why a young woman had a perfectly healthy finger cut off by the eminent surgeon Prescott.

1973-03-19T20:00:00Z

2x08 Anonymous Letters

2x08 Anonymous Letters

  • 1973-03-19T20:00:00Z50m

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dagobert Trostler investigates a poison pen case.

1973-03-26T20:00:00Z

2x09 The Moabite Cypher

2x09 The Moabite Cypher

  • 1973-03-26T20:00:00Z50m

Dr Thorndyke has to decypher a code to stop a plot to assassinate a Russian Grand Duke.

2x10 The Secret of the Foxhunter

  • 1973-04-02T20:00:00Z50m

William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.

1973-04-09T20:00:00Z

2x11 The Missing Q.C's

2x11 The Missing Q.C's

  • 1973-04-09T20:00:00Z50m

Charles Dallas is led into a strange and sinister adventure in the aftermath of a sensational murder trial.

Gold disappears from the strongroom of the RMS Oceanic and its purser, Mr Horrocks, tries to discover what has happened.

Season Finale

1973-05-07T20:00:00Z

2x13 The Mystery of the Amber Beads

Season Finale

2x13 The Mystery of the Amber Beads

  • 1973-05-07T20:00:00Z50m

Hagar the Gypsy sets out to prove that Detective Sergeat Grubber is wrong about who killed Mrs Arryford.

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