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13 episodes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes - The Return of Sherlock Holmes

First aired Jul 9, 1986Season 1

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.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Empty House

10.0
Jul 9, 198651 min1 votes

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.

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Episode 2

The Priory School

6.0
Jul 16, 198652 min1 votes

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.

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Episode 3

The Second Stain

6.0
Jul 23, 198651 min1 votes

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.

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Episode 4

The Musgrave Ritual

8.0
Jul 30, 198652 min1 votes

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

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Episode 5

The Abbey Grange

4.0
Aug 6, 198652 min1 votes

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.

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Episode 6

The Man with the Twisted Lip

1.0
Aug 13, 198652 min1 votes

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

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Episode 7

The Six Napoleons

7.0
Aug 20, 198652 min1 votes

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

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Episode 8

The Devil's Foot

NR
Apr 6, 1988103 min

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.

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Episode 9

Silver Blaze

9.0
Apr 13, 198851 min1 votes

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

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Episode 10

Wisteria Lodge

NR
Apr 20, 198851 min

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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Episode 11

The Bruce Partington Plans

9.0
Apr 27, 198852 min1 votes

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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Episode 12

Episode 12

NR
May 4, 198853 min

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Episode 13

Episode 13

NR
May 11, 1988101 min

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