The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a TV series starring Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, and Rosalie Williams. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve the mysteries of the devil’s foot, Silver Blaze, Wisteria Lodge and the Bruce-Partington…
Release Date: July 1986
10. The Devil’s Foot
Air Date: 6 Apr. 1988Season 2, Episode 1
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.
9. The Second Stain
Air Date: 23 Jul. 1986Season 1, Episode 3
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.
8. Silver Blaze
Air Date: 13 Apr. 1988Season 2, Episode 2
Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.
7. The Empty House
Air Date: 9 Jul. 1986Season 1, Episode 1
Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Professor Moriarity three years earlier, Sherlock Holmes returns to England to foil a plot to murder him by a former Moriarity gang member.
6. Wisteria Lodge
Air Date: 20 Apr. 1988Season 2, Episode 3
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.
5. The Musgrave Ritual
Air Date: 30 Jul. 1986Season 1, Episode 4
An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.
4. The Bruce Partington Plans
Air Date: 27 Apr. 1988Season 2, Episode 4
Sherlock’s brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
3. The Man with the Twisted Lip
Air Date: 6 Aug. 1986Season 1, Episode 5
Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.
2. The Priory School
Air Date: 13 Aug. 1986Season 1, Episode 6
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.
1. The Abbey Grange
Air Date: 16 Jul. 1986Season 1, Episode 2
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.