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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

11 episodes · 1986

In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.

  1. 1The Empty House

    09 Jul 1986 · 51 min

    10.0 (1)

    Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Moriarity three years ago, Holmes returns to England to foil a murder plot against him by a former Moriarity gang member.

  2. 2The Priory School

    16 Jul 1986

    6.0 (1)

    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.

  3. 3The Second Stain

    23 Jul 1986

    6.0 (1)

    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.

  4. 4The Musgrave Ritual

    30 Jul 1986

    8.0 (1)

    An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.

  5. 5The Abbey Grange

    06 Aug 1986

    4.0 (1)

    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.

  6. 6The Man with the Twisted Lip

    13 Aug 1986

    1.0 (1)

    Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.

  7. 7The Six Napoleons

    20 Aug 1986

    7.0 (1)

    Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been inexplicably breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of breaking small busts of Napoleon.

  8. 8The Devil's Foot

    06 Apr 1988

    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. 9Silver Blaze

    13 Apr 1988

    9.0 (1)

    Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.

  10. 10Wisteria Lodge

    20 Apr 1988

    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.

  11. 11The Bruce Partington Plansfinale

    27 Apr 1988

    9.0 (1)

    Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.