S01E01 A Message from the Deep Sea
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...
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
S01E12: The Ripening Rubies
Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
Overview
An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Episodes
S01E02 The Missing Witness Sensation
Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.
S01E03 The Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle and Tire Co.
Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
S01E04 The Duchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds
Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
S01E05 The Horse of the Invisible
Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.
S01E06 The Case of the Mirror of Portugal
Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
S01E08 The Case of the Dixon Torpedo
Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
S01E09 The Woman in the Big Hat
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
S01E10 The Affair of the Tortoise
Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
S01E11 The Assyrian Rejuvenator
Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
S01E12 The Ripening Rubies
Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
S01E13 The Case of Laker, Absconded
Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.
