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4 Episodes 2001 - 2001
Episode 1
90 mins
Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle assists a young woman, Miss Grace, who is terrified by an apparition that follows her when she bicycles home along a lonely stretch of road. He informs his colleague and mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell who joins him in investigating the case. She believes she is being followed by the spirit of the man who killed her parents some years before, but Bell assures her that the killer was hanged long ago and there has to be another explanation. There are many suspects, including former suitors, an uncle who will soon lose control over Miss Grace's finances and her present fiancée. When Miss Grace is kidnapped, Bell realizes that someone from her past is implicated. He also concludes however that Miss Grace has another dark secret.
Episode 2
90 mins
Drs. Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell investigate when the police find two bodies floating in the river. Both seemed to have victims of the same killer as they have similar bruising and were similarly strangled. One of the victims is identified by her brother Charles and he is a suspect as they had a recent falling out. When a third body is found, it's identified as Dr. Ibbotson, the local coroner who was a drunk and discredited as a member of the medical profession. Meanwhile Doyle continues to grieve for his murdered fiancée and believes he saw her outside a hypnotist show. When Charles asks Doyle to attend a séance in an attempt to speak to his dead sister, he again sees his fiancée. Doyle is drawn to the world of spiritualism, but it is Bell who discovers a connection with a local photographer.
Episode 3
90 mins
Doyle assists his friend Reuben Proctor who has recently acquired an Egyptian mummy. They arrange for a gala evening at the museum where two eminent professors - Doyle's mentor Dr. Bell being one of them - will unveil the embalmed remains of the Egyptian princess and perform an autopsy. To everyone's surprise, they find not a princess but a man who was recently murdered. As they investigate, Doyle and Bell uncover a group of expatriate rebels plotting to create havoc. They work frantically to stop them before they spread terror among the population of London.
Episode 4
90 mins
When Sir John Starr complains that the investigation into his son's murder is not producing results, the Chief Constable asks Dr. Joseph Bell to assist. Bell agrees but there is some animosity with the officer in charge of the case, Lt. Blaney, as they had recently clashed on a different case. Bell enlist the help of Dr. Doyle who is in Edinburgh to visit his father. The younger Starr was a money lender and he had recently foreclosed on a an account resulting in a young woman committing suicide. For the first time however, Bell and Doyle do not see eye to eye on the case and Doyle finds himself siding with Lt. Blaney. When a suspect is killed, Bell begins to question his own abilities and feels that his time may have passed.