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6 episodes

Sherlock Holmes - The Return of Sherlock Holmes

First aired Dec 29, 1987Season 4

Adaptations to some of Doyle's short stories from "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", and two feature-length TV movies based on novels written by Doyle: "The Sign of Four" and the ever popular "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Sign of Four

6.5
Dec 29, 198750 min6 votes

A woman receives one large and valuable pearl anonymously every year. When an invitation arrives to meet the mysterious pearl-giver, she seeks Holmes's advice.

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Episode 2

The Devil's Foot

7.8
Apr 6, 198850 min11 votes

After an illness, Holmes reluctantly takes a holiday with Watson for company and ends up investigating an unexplained tragedy that occurred to three siblings after a quiet evening at home playing cards.

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Episode 3

Silver Blaze

8.2
Apr 13, 198850 min11 votes

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

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Episode 4

Wisteria Lodge

6.6
Apr 20, 198851 min11 votes

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.

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Episode 5

The Bruce Partington Plans

8.3
Apr 27, 198852 min10 votes

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

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Episode 6

The Hound of the Baskervilles

9.0
Aug 31, 1988105 min6 votes

Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead with his face contorted in terror and the footprints of a huge dog near his body. His heir engages Holmes to get to the bottom of the age-old family curse of the phantom hound.