The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.
Seasons
1. A Message from the Deep Sea
Air Date: 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!
2. The Missing Witness Sensation
Air Date: 1971-09-27
Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.
3. The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.
Air Date: 1971-10-04
Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
4. The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
Air Date: 1971-10-11
Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
5. The Horse of the Invisible
Air Date: 1971-10-18
Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.
6. The Case of the Mirror of Portugal
Air Date: 1971-10-25
Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
7. Madame Sara
Air Date: 1971-11-01
Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.
8. The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
Air Date: 1971-11-08
Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
9. The Woman in the Big Hat
Air Date: 1971-11-15
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
10. The Affair of the Tortoise
Air Date: 1971-11-22
Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
11. The Assyrian Rejuvenator
Air Date: 1971-11-29
Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
12. The Ripening Rubies
Air Date: 1971-12-02
Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
13. The Case of Laker, Absconded
Air Date: 1971-12-09
Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.
1. The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway
Air Date: 1973-01-29
Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.
2. Five Hundred Carats
Air Date: 1973-02-05
Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.
3. Cell 13
Air Date: 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.
4. The Secret of the Manifique
Air Date: 1973-02-19
Laxworthy and two friends secure the safety of the plans for the first torpedo to be used by the French navy.
5. The Absent-Minded Coterie
Air Date: 1973-02-26
Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.
6. The Sensible Action of Lieutenant Hoist
Air Date: 1973-03-04
Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her.
7. The Superfluous Finger
Air Date: 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.
8. Anonymous Letters
Air Date: 1973-03-19
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dagobert Trostler investigates a poison pen case.
9. The Moabite Cypher
Air Date: 1973-03-26
Dr Thorndyke has to decypher a code to stop a plot to assassinate a Russian Grand Duke.
10. The Secret of the Foxhunter
Air Date: 1973-04-02
William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.
11. The Missing Q.C's
Air Date: 1973-04-09
Charles Dallas is led into a strange and sinister adventure in the aftermath of a sensational murder trial.
12. The Looting of the Species Room
Air Date: 1973-04-16
Gold disappears from the strongroom of the RMS Oceanic and its purser, Mr Horrocks, tries to discover what has happened.
13. The Mystery of the Amber Beads
Air Date: 1973-05-07
Hagar the Gypsy sets out to prove that Detective Sergeat Grubber is wrong about who killed Mrs Arryford.
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Rating
7.3/10
Release Date
1971-09-20
Episodes
26 (2 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Pearson Television International
Thames Television