The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)
An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
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Episode 1 - A Message from the Deep Sea
Release Date: 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!
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Episode 2 - The Missing Witness Sensation
Release Date: 1971-09-27Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.
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Episode 3 - The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.
Release Date: 1971-10-04Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
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Episode 4 - The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
Release Date: 1971-10-11Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
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Episode 5 - The Horse of the Invisible
Release Date: 1971-10-18Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.
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Episode 6 - The Case of the Mirror of Portugal
Release Date: 1971-10-25Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
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Episode 7 - Madame Sara
Release Date: 1971-11-01Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.
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Episode 8 - The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
Release Date: 1971-11-08Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
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Episode 9 - The Woman in the Big Hat
Release Date: 1971-11-15Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
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Episode 10 - The Affair of the Tortoise
Release Date: 1971-11-22Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
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Episode 11 - The Assyrian Rejuvenator
Release Date: 1971-11-29Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
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Episode 12 - The Ripening Rubies
Release Date: 1971-12-02Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
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Episode 13 - The Case of Laker, Absconded
Release Date: 1971-12-09Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.