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15 Episodes 1968 - 0
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 8, 1968 50 mins
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 15, 1968 50 mins
Hilton Cubitt, from Derbyshire, consults Holmes about a series of dancing men picture-messages his wife is receiving. On their wedding-day, she had made Cubitt promise he would ask her nothing about her past, but she now seems to be terrified. Holmes has to decipher the code of the matchstick men and get to the bottom of a dreadful murder which lies behind it.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 22, 1968 50 mins
Episode 4
Sun, Sep 29, 1968 50 mins
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 6, 1968 50 mins
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 13, 1968 50 mins
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 20, 1968 50 mins
Episode 8
Sun, Oct 27, 1968 50 mins
Holmes is approached by Percy Phelps, of the Foreign Office, to recover a document which has been stolen - before it can cause an international scandal and ruin Phelps's career. It seems the British Empire and the Kingdom of Italy have entered into a secret and embarrassing treaty.
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 3, 1968 50 mins
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 10, 1968 50 mins
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 17, 1968 50 mins
Episode 12
Sun, Nov 24, 1968 50 mins
Episode 13
Sun, Dec 1, 1968 50 mins
Episode 14
Sun, Dec 8, 1968 50 mins
Violet Smith has recently started a new job as music teacher to Robert Carruthers, staying during the week at his house in the country. She consults Holmes because she is worried about being followed once a week on her way to the railway station by a man on a bicycle. Carruthers asks Miss Smith to marry him, but Holmes sees a sinister connection between him and the stalker.
Episode 15
Sun, Dec 22, 1968 50 mins
A plumber, John Horner, is arrested just before Christmas and charged with stealing a famous jewel, the Blue Carbuncle, from Lady Morcar. He denies the theft - but he has a criminal record, and all the evidence is against him. After Holmes's doorman finds the Carbuncle in a Christmas goose, Holmes uses an old hat to track the goose to a poultry dealer, then traps the servant who stole the jewel and framed the plumber.