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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1991 - 1991
Episode 1
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
50 mins
While on holiday in the Lake District, Dr. Watson finds himself staying in the same hotel as Lady Frances Carfax, an unmarried and independent-minded woman. Dr. Watson overhears Lady Frances quarrel with her brother, the Earl of Rufton, about money, and observes a bearded man apparently stalking her. Dr. Watson concludes that Lady Frances and the bearded man know one other and that Lady Frances is frightened of him. Dr. Watson recounts these events in a letter to Holmes, who upon reading it immediately decides that the woman is in imminent danger and sets out to join Dr. Watson. By the time Holmes arrives, Lady Frances has disappeared.
Episode 2
The Problem of Thor Bridge
48 mins
When Maria Gibson is shot through the head while standing on the Thor Bridge on her estate, the family's governess, Grace Dunbar, is arrested for murder. Not only does she admit meeting her mistress on the bridge, the police find the murder weapon in her room. She vehemently denies killing the woman and Senator J. Neil Gibson, the dead woman's husband, believes her. He hires Sherlock Holmes to get to the bottom of it all. The Senator admits that he and Miss Dunbar have affections for one another but that neither of them had anything to do with the murder. Dr. Watson is convinced that the Senator is the culprit but Holmes comes to an entirely different conclusion.
Episode 3
Shoscombe Old Place
52 mins
Sherlock Holmes is approached by John Mason, a horse trainer who is worried about his employer's recent strange behavior. Sir Robert Norberton and his sister Lady Beatrice Falder live on their estate, Shoscombe Hall. Sir Robert is a keen horseman with stables known locally as Shoscombe Old Place. He has been under a great deal of pressure lately owing primarily to his financial situation. A moneylender, Samuel Brewer, has already visited the manor house once demanding payment but has now disappeared. Other bits of odd behavior have also been apparent. Sir Robert recently gave away his sister's beloved dog and Lady Falder is now only seen once a day when she goes for her carriage ride with her companion. Holmes and Watson are soon on site but it is apparent that Sir Robert is hiding something.
Episode 4
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
52 mins
When Sherlock Holmes receives an urgent plea for help from a young woman, Alice Turner, he interrupts Dr. Watson's holiday and they set off. Alice wants Holmes to exonerate her childhood friend James McCarthy, whom she loves dearly and who has been charged with murdering his father, William McCarthy. She is convinced of his innocence and believes the murder charge is due in part to his refusal to reveal what he and his father were arguing about the day the elder McCarthy was killed. They were in fact arguing about James' refusal to marry her. After interviewing him, Holmes also believes him to be innocent. The solution to the crime is to be found in events that began long ago when the elder McCarthy and Alice's father, John Turner, both lived in Australia.
Episode 5
The Illustrious Client
52 mins
Holmes is hired by Sir James Damery to do anything he can to stop the forthcoming marriage of Violet Merville, daughter of a famed General, to Baron Gruner, a known philanderer and womanizer who has been known to seduce - and perhaps even dispose of - well-to-do women on the Continent. The young woman is madly in love with him and will hear nothing against him. It is also apparent that Sir James is acting as an intermediary for someone else, whom he refuses to reveal. The Baron is soon onto Holmes's attempt to discredit him, and he is not above hiring ruffians to get rid of troublemakers. Holmes recruits one of the Baron's discarded women to try to convince Miss Merville of her ill-advised romance - but only when he learns that Gruner has a diary does he find the weapon he needs.
Episode 6
The Creeping Man
50 mins
Sherlock Holmes is asked by Jack Bennett to investigate after his fiancée Edith Presbury sees the shadow of a man in her window in the middle of the night. The problem is that her bedroom is on the second floor and there is no way for any man to have been able to get to that window. Edith is the daughter of a notable natural scientist, Professor Presbury, a widower who is engaged to be married to a much younger woman, Alice Morphy. The Professor is quite displeased at hearing that Bennett, who also happens to be his assistant, has hired the Great Detective and Holmes and Watson are unceremoniously escorted off the property.When Holmes reads of a rash of thefts from zoos - all monkeys and apes - he slowly begins to unravel the mystery of the shadow Miss Presbury saw in her window.