The rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Set 1 [videorecording] / Freemantle Media Enterprises ; a Thames Television production ; produced by Robert Love and Jonathan Alwyn ; stories by R. Austin Freeman, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Morrison, Guy Boothby, William Hope Hodgson, L.T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Baroness Orczy, Clifford Ashdown, Max Pemberton ; dramatized by Philip Mackie, Julian Bond, Anthony Stevens, Stuart Hood, Alan Cooke, Bill Craig, Anthony Skene ; directed by James Goddard, Jonathan Alwyn, Kim Mills, Alan Cooke, Mike Vardy, Piers Haggard, Bill Bain.
Title from container. John Neville, Robert Stephens, Peter Vaughan, Roy Dotrice, Donald Pleasence, John Fraser, Ronald Hines, Elvi Hale, Peter Barkworth, Donald Sinden, Robert Lang, Jeremy Irons. Contains 13 episodes from the series. Originally broadcast on Thames Television in 1971. Special features: Vol. one: Profiles of Dr. Thorndyke, Max Carrados, Horace Dorrington, and Simon Carne. Vol. two: Profiles of Carnacki and Dixon Druce. Vol. three: Profiles of Martin Hewitt/Jonathan Pryde and Lady Molly. Vol. four: Profiles of Romney Pringle and Bernard Sutton.
Contents:
Episode 4: Episode 1: The Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds. Episode 2: The missing witness sensation -- Episode 3: The affair of the Avalanche Bicycle & Tyre Co. Ltd. -- Episode 4: The Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds. Episode 7: Episode 5: Madame Sara. Episode 6: The case of the mirror of Portugal -- Episode 7: Madame Sara. Episode 10: Episode 8: The affair of the tortoise. Episode 9: The woman in the big hat -- Episode 10: The affair of the tortoise. Episode 13: Episode 11: The case of Laker, absconded. Episode 12: The ripening rubies -- Episode 13: The case of Laker, absconded.
Summary:
Dr. Thorndyke is an early proponent of forensic investigation; and there is the blind gumshoe Mac Carrados; and gentleman thief Simon Carne; and Mr. Carnacki who is a detective of the occult. These men pit their wits against the best that London's underworld has to offer. Victorian London was a boon for crooks and a bane to Scotland Yard, whose job it was to keep the city safe from criminals.
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