Good Night, Mr. Holmes

Holmes and Watson are visited by none other than the Prime Minister, whose Foreign Secretary has somehow lost a very important diplomatic letter. Is it a plot, of international intrigue? Or something a little closer to home? A bloodstained rug that doesn't quite line up provides Holmes with the key to the mystery.

The heir to the Duke of Holdernesse has disappeared from his posh school. Eton jackets, bicycle tires, and a search around the moors of Yorkshire leads to the limestone caves of the Hellfire Club - a site of debauchery so appealing, Benjamin Franklin visited more than once.

Sherlock Holmes's remarkable return to Baker Street, as he eliminates the last of Moriarty's gang and Watson, for some inexplicable reason, dons a fez.

In the heartbreaking finale of the first season of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Watson writes of Holmes's final showdown with his nemesis Moriarty.

A red-haired shop-owner is presented with an amazing opportunity, meant only for red-haired men - come to an office and copy out the A volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica. But suddenly, he reports for work and the office is shut down. What’s going on? 

A young, successful doctor comes to Holmes because his benefactor, Mr. Blessington, is freaking out - terrible dreams, night sweats, hallucinations. Soon after, Blessington hangs himself. Or does he? Holmes and Watson uncover the real story.

A young lawyer is in peril - he'd just drawn up a will for a new client, who had made the young lawyer his sole heir. But the client - a builder in Lower Norwood - appears to be dead. The lawyer is being pursued by the police for murdering the builder. Can Holmes and Watson clear the lawyer's name?

We are introduced to Mycroft Holmes! He asks Holmes and Watson to investigate the case of a Greek translator who's been abducted and forced to translate for nefarious characters.

A beautiful - and large - blue gemstone is stolen from the Countess of Morcar while she is Christmas shopping in London. Easy enough to pin it on a hotel repairman who has a prior history of crime, but he insists that since his marriage he’s reformed. A goose-buying syndicate, an old hat, and the cheer of the Christmas season create a memorable episode for Holmes and Watson.

A deeply unpleasant stepfather, a mysterious death, sisters who are so frightened their hair has turned white - Sherlock Holmes once again rides to the rescue of a terrorized woman on the brink of leaving an unhappy home for a happy marriage. Can Holmes and Watson solve this classic locked-room mystery?

A “daughter of the regiment,” detecting footprints on a stone patio, a betrayal in the Levant, and Fiona Shaw! Holmes and Watson are called to solve the death of a retired colonel who had served in India. Supposedly the colonel had a happy marriage - but did he really? And who is David?

Percy Phelps, an old school friend of Watson's, has managed to lose an important treaty between Britain and Italy, and he has been in an absolute panic for weeks. How can a document disappear from a room in the Foreign Office when no one is in it? Why is Holmes shooting bullets into the wall? And exactly how much hot water does Holmes need Mrs. Hudson to bring him?

Cryptograms! Ciphers! Strange and threatening Americans! In The Dancing Men, Holmes must translate a series of drawings of stick figures that spell out a message of doom for American Elsie Cubitt, the wife of a wealthy English landowner who knew very little about her before marrying her. An episode of men turning themselves into absolute pretzels rather than ask a woman a question.

The first episode in the Granada series, A Scandal in Bohemia is the story of Irene Adler and how she beat Sherlock Holmes at his own game. Features Watson’s wandering wound, Holmes’s ability to extract information about a person from their appearance, Holmes in a number of disguises (and Jeremy Brett’s astonishing gift of inhabiting a character inhabiting another character), and the smallest pistol ever seen on television.