The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Season 2 (13 Episodes)

2 Seasons 1973 TV-PG 50m 7.2

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

A series comprised of mysteries written by Conan Doyle's contemporaries. Many of these authors were virtually unknown to modern audiences, although all of the detectives portrayed had appeared in popular on-going series of short stories or novels. "Rivals" featured the only dramatizations to date of such period characters as Jacques Futrelle's "The Thinking Machine" and W. H. Hodgson's "Carnacki The Ghost Finder".

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 2 Five Hundred Carats

2. Five Hundred Carats

Aired: Feb 5, 1973

Tensions reach the breaking point in the small mining town of Kimberley, Sout...

Episode 3 Cell 13

3. Cell 13

Aired: Feb 12, 1973

Irked by the grandiose boasts of the warden of Grangemoor prison, Prof. Van D...

Episode 8 Anonymous Letters

8. Anonymous Letters

Aired: Mar 19, 1973

A recently married Habsburg countess hires dashing private detective Dagobert...

Episode 9 The Moabite Cypher

9. The Moabite Cypher

Aired: Mar 26, 1973

Coming to the aid of a man kicked by a rearing police horse, Dr. John Thorndy...

Episode 11 The Missing Q.C's

11. The Missing Q.C's

Aired: Apr 9, 1973

Two leading London barristers--Queen's Counsels--disappear during a murder tr...

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Info about The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Current Status: Ended

Network: ITV1

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

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