The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Season 1

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Season 1

First aired: 7/9/1986 11 episodes

In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.

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Episodes

1. The Empty House

Aired: 7/9/1986

Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Moriarity three years ago, Holmes returns to England to foil a murder plot against him by a former Moriarity gang member.

2. The Priory School

Aired: 7/16/1986

The headmaster of a prestigious prep school calls on Holmes for help when the ten year old only son of powerful but publicity-shy duke disappears.

3. The Second Stain

Aired: 7/23/1986

Holmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war.

4. The Musgrave Ritual

Aired: 7/30/1986

An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.

5. The Abbey Grange

Aired: 8/6/1986

Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.

6. The Man with the Twisted Lip

Aired: 8/13/1986

Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.

7. The Six Napoleons

Aired: 8/20/1986

Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been inexplicably breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of breaking small busts of Napoleon.

8. The Devil's Foot

Aired: 4/6/1988

While convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers.

9. Silver Blaze

Aired: 4/13/1988

Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.

10. Wisteria Lodge

Aired: 4/20/1988

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.

11. The Bruce Partington Plans

Aired: 4/27/1988

Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.