The Return of Sherlock Holmes
6 episodes · premiered Dec 29, 1987
Adaptations to some of Doyle's short stories from "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", and two feature-length TV movies based on novels written by Doyle: "The Sign of Four" and the ever popular "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
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E1 The Sign of Four
A woman receives one large and valuable pearl anonymously every year. When an invitation arrives to meet the mysterious pearl-giver, she seeks Holmes's advice.
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E2 The Devil's Foot
After an illness, Holmes reluctantly takes a holiday with Watson for company and ends up investigating an unexplained tragedy that occurred to three siblings after a quiet evening at home playing cards.
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E3 Silver Blaze
Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.
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E4 Wisteria Lodge
A bored Holmes eagerly accepts a case involving the disappearance of an amateur Spanish cartographer as well as his servants from his rented country lodge.
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E5 The Bruce Partington Plans
Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
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E6 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead with his face contorted in terror and the footprints of a huge dog near his body. His heir engages Holmes to get to the bottom of the age-old family curse of the phantom hound.