Episode guide
Sherlock Holmes: 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."
- Episode 1: The Sign of Four Dec 29, 1987 · 50m 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.
- Episode 2: The Devil's Foot Apr 6, 1988 · 50m 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…
- Episode 3: Silver Blaze Apr 13, 1988 · 50m Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.
- Episode 4: Wisteria Lodge Apr 20, 1988 · 51m 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.
- Episode 5: The Bruce Partington Plans Apr 27, 1988 · 52m Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
- Episode 6: The Hound of the Baskervilles Aug 31, 1988 · 1h 45m 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…