The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery,

Actor:

Creator: Hugh Greene,

Country: United Kingdom,

Type: tv

Season: 2

Episode: N/A

Duration: 50 minutes

Release: 1971-09-20

Rating: 7.3

Season 1 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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!
1971-09-27
Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.
1971-10-04
Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
1971-10-11
Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
1971-10-18
Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.
1971-10-25
Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
1971-11-01
Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.
1971-11-08
Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
1971-11-15
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
1971-11-22
Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
1971-11-29
Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
1971-12-02
Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
1971-12-09
Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.

Season 2 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1973-01-29
Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.
1973-02-05
Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.
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.
1973-02-19
Laxworthy and two friends secure the safety of the plans for the first torpedo to be used by the French navy.
1973-02-26
Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.
1973-03-04
Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her.
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.
1973-03-19
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dagobert Trostler investigates a poison pen case.
1973-03-26
Dr Thorndyke has to decypher a code to stop a plot to assassinate a Russian Grand Duke.
1973-04-02
William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.
1973-04-09
Charles Dallas is led into a strange and sinister adventure in the aftermath of a sensational murder trial.
1973-04-16
Gold disappears from the strongroom of the RMS Oceanic and its purser, Mr Horrocks, tries to discover what has happened.
1973-05-07
Hagar the Gypsy sets out to prove that Detective Sergeat Grubber is wrong about who killed Mrs Arryford.