The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 26 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
MysteryCrimeDrama
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.
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Seasons
Season 1
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!
Season 2
Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.
Network
ITV1
Production
Pearson Television International, Thames Television
Keywords
anthologybased on short storysuspense mystery