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    TV Series

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    IMDb8.7/10
    1986 - 1988
    Ended
    Seasons: 1
    Episodes: 11

    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.

    Created by: John Hawkesworth
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    Seasons & Episodes

    1. The Empty House

    10

    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.

    7/9/198651 min

    2. The Priory School

    6

    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.

    7/16/1986

    3. The Second Stain

    6

    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.

    7/23/1986

    4. The Musgrave Ritual

    8

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

    7/30/1986

    5. The Abbey Grange

    4

    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.

    8/6/1986

    6. The Man with the Twisted Lip

    1

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

    8/13/1986

    7. The Six Napoleons

    7

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

    8/20/1986

    8. The Devil's Foot

    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.

    4/6/1988

    9. Silver Blaze

    9

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

    4/13/1988

    10. Wisteria Lodge

    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.

    4/20/1988

    11. The Bruce Partington Plans

    9

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

    4/27/1988

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