The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

⭐7.4(10 votes)

•1971

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Episodes

50m

1. A Message from the Deep Sea

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!

50m

2. The Missing Witness Sensation

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

50m

3. The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.

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

50m

4. The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds

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

50m

5. The Horse of the Invisible

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

50m

6. The Case of the Mirror of Portugal

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

50m

7. Madame Sara

Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.

50m

8. The Case of the Dixon Torpedo

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

50m

9. The Woman in the Big Hat

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

50m

10. The Affair of the Tortoise

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

50m

11. The Assyrian Rejuvenator

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

50m

12. The Ripening Rubies

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

50m

13. The Case of Laker, Absconded

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

Overview

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.