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"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (44 results)
Dramatised for television by Stanley Miller, with Peter Cushing and Nigel Stock as the famous investigati...
A diverting little murder. I have no doubt that somewhere among the blood and gore, we shall fin...
Dramatised for television by Michael and Mollie Hardwick, and starring Peter Cushing and Nigel Stock as the...
Why did the author Arthur Conan Doyle kill off his most famous creation - master detective Sherlock Holmes - at th...
Lucy Worsley explores the extraordinary love-hate relationship between Sir Arthur Conan D...
Arthur Conan Doyle had managed to finally rid himself of Sherlock Holmes. But who was Arthur ...
Documentary exploring the lesser-known side of Arthur Conan Doyle, who solved real crimes as chilling and baffling as those investigated by his c...
After Sherlock’s return from the dead, Doyle became an evangelist for spiritualism. His st...
Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart head an all-star cast as Holmes and Watson in Allan Cubitt's dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's cla...
Rupert Davies as Maigret introduces Sherlock Holmes, played by Douglas Wilmer, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Speckled Band, adapted by Giles ...
Professor Christopher Frayling searches Dartmoor for the origins of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detecti...
The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform a live soundtrack in this premier stage adaptation of Conan Doyle’s thriller, starr...
Holmes is solicited for aid in protecting Sir Henry Baskerville, whose family is haunted by a legend of a supernatural hound.
In this seasonal whodunnit, Sherlock Holmes investigates the theft of a diamond. Read by Tom Conti.
A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem and to deal with his son's apparent dishonour.
When a beautiful young woman is threatened by unknown dangers in a remote country house, Holmes and Watson are quick to fly to her aid.
How did a respectable businessman come to disappear from a sordid East End opium den? What part in it does a deformed beggar p...
Jabez Wilson is a struggling pawn broker hardly worth the attentions of any petty thief. But when Wilson loses a job that is both lud...
The mysterious connection between Jabez Wilson's red hair and a London bank cellar presents a 'three-pipe problem' for Sherlo...
The detective agrees to help locate a missing husband, but can he do so without leaving 221B Baker Street? Stars Clive...
Holmes traces a compromising photo, but meets his match in Irene Adler. Stars Clive Merrison.
Who has stolen jewels from one of the treasures of the Empire? The detective investigates snowy Streatham. With Clive M...
The detective must solve a case where the only clues are a Christmas goose and a hat. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael...
When a man is murdered, his blood-covered son stands accused. But the detective has his own theory. Stars Cli...
A young governess consults the detective in a most sinister case. Starring Clive Merrison, Michael Williams and Imogen...
A young man with severe injuries and a chilling tale arrives at Watson's surgery. Stars Clive Merrison and Mic...
After receiving a violent death threat letter, Colonel Elias OpenShaw calls on the Baker Street detective. Stars Cli...
Trailing a missing man, the detective enters one of London's vilest opium dens. Stars Clive Merrison and Mic...
When a missing bride's clothes appear in a lake, the sleuth is bound to investigate. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael ...
The detective investigates why a pawnbroker is paid four sovereigns a week to copy out an encyclopaedia. Stars Cliv...
After her twin sister dies screaming in terror, a woman seeks the detective's help. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Wi...
The great detective is bored, until a young woman arrives looking for her father. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams.
The largest landowner in Boscombe Valley left his farm one afternoon to keep an appointment at Boscombe Pool, a lake a quarte...
The letters ''KKK'' scrawled in red ink on the flap of an envelope, just above the gum and five dried orange pips inside mean death ...
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate a mysterious ghostly bride who appears to have committed murder from beyond the grave.
The Baker Street sleuth pursues a creature stalking a noble family at a Dartmoor mansion. Combined version of an original two-part adapt...
A starry cast including Mark Gatiss, Sanjeev Bhaskar and the BBC SO on the detective trail.
The curse of the Baskervilles claims its final victim.
First installment in classic two-part story. Peter Cushing and Nigel Stock as the inquisitive pair, dealing first-hand with an horrific ...
A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate - it is London in 2010, and Dr Watson a...
Compromising photographs threaten the monarchy, but for Sherlock and John the game is on in more ways than one.
Two years after his apparent death and with London under a terrorist threat, Sherlock Holmes walks back into Dr John Watson's life.
Why is someone destroying images of Margaret Thatcher? Is there a madman on the loose? Or is there a much darker purpose at work?
Ninety-three-year-old Sherlock Holmes leads a quiet life, but in the autumn of his life he is still fascinated by an unsolved case.
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