The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

Creators and Cast

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Hugh Greene

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Episodes

Season 1

13 episodes

S1 E1 · A Message from the Deep Sea

1971-09-20

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!

S1 E2 · The Missing Witness Sensation

1971-09-27

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

S1 E3 · The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.

1971-10-04

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

S1 E4 · The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds

1971-10-11

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

S1 E5 · The Horse of the Invisible

1971-10-18

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

S1 E6 · The Case of the Mirror of Portugal

1971-10-25

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

S1 E7 · Madame Sara

1971-11-01

Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.

S1 E8 · The Case of the Dixon Torpedo

1971-11-08

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

S1 E9 · The Woman in the Big Hat

1971-11-15

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

S1 E10 · The Affair of the Tortoise

1971-11-22

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

S1 E11 · The Assyrian Rejuvenator

1971-11-29

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

S1 E12 · The Ripening Rubies

1971-12-02

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

S1 E13 · The Case of Laker, Absconded

1971-12-09

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

Season 2

13 episodes

S2 E1 · The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

1973-01-29

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

S2 E2 · Five Hundred Carats

1973-02-05

Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.

S2 E3 · Cell 13

1973-02-12

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.

S2 E4 · The Secret of the Manifique

1973-02-19

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

S2 E5 · The Absent-Minded Coterie

1973-02-26

Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.

S2 E6 · The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist

1973-03-04

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

S2 E7 · The Superfluous Finger

1973-03-11

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

S2 E8 · Anonymous Letters

1973-03-19

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

S2 E9 · The Moabite Cypher

1973-03-26

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

S2 E10 · The Secret of the Foxhunter

1973-04-02

William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.

S2 E11 · The Missing Q.C's

1973-04-09

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

S2 E12 · The Looting of the Species Room

1973-04-16

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

S2 E13 · The Mystery of the Amber Beads

1973-05-07

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