The BEST episodes of Sherlock Holmes (1954) season 1
Every episode of Sherlock Holmes (1954) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Sherlock Holmes (1954) season 1!
Based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. John Watson returns from Afghanistan, and decides to share lodgings in Baker Street with Sherlock Holmes, an acquaintance of one of Watson's own friends. Not long afterward, Holmes brings Watson with him when he solves a murder case that has confused Inspector Lestrade. Watson soon becomes Holmes's friend, assistant, and chronicler, as the private detective takes on one baffling case after another.
#1 - The Case of Harry Crocker
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/1954
Vaudeville escape artist Harry Crocker turns to Sherlock Holmes for help when he is accused of strangling a chorus girl.
#2 - The Case of the Texas Cowgirl
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/1954
A cowgirl from a visiting rodeo show asks Sherlock Holmes to help her when she discovers a dead man in her hotel room.
#3 - The Case of the Cunningham Heritage
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/1954
Dr. John Watson meets private detective Sherlock Holmes, and assists him in solving a case that has confused Inspector Lestrade.
#4 - The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/1954
Holmes and Watson travel to Sussex to investigate the murder of Squire Douglas, who was shot to death in a sealed-up castle, with only two apparent suspects.
#5 - The Case of the Blind Man's Bluff
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/6/1954
The only clue at the site of two grisly murders is a chicken's foot. Baffled, Insp. Lestrade goes to Sherlock Holmes for assistance.
#6 - The Case of the Vanished Detective
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/21/1955
When Sherlock Holmes disappears, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade begin a search that leads them to a small shop.
#7 - The Case of the Thistle Killer
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/14/1955
Sherlock Holmes helps Scotland Yard to track down a killer who has been leaving three thistles next to each of the women he has murdered.
#8 - The Case of the French Interpreter
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/17/1955
Dr. Watson urgently fetches Sherlock Holmes from his club, and brings him to see a French interpreter who urgently needs the detective. The interpreter, M. Dubec, explains how his services were requested by a man named Lattimer, who then abducted him and took him to an unknown location. There Dubec was asked to persuade a Frenchman to sign some papers for Lattimer and an associate, so that they can gain control over his sister's wealth. The case becomes more urgent when the criminals find out about Dubec's meeting with Holmes, and once again take him to their hidden location.
#9 - The Case of the Laughing Mummy
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/1955
Sherlock Holmes helps one of Dr. Watson's old friends by explaining the source of an odd noise in the man's home, but in doing so Holmes uncovers a more serious mystery.
#10 - The Case of Lady Beryl
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/1954
Lady Beryl confesses to a murder that was committed at her home, but Sherlock Holmes is convinced that she is innocent.
#11 - The Case of the Belligerent Ghost
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1954
When Dr. Watson thinks that he has seen a ghost, it puts Sherlock Holmes on a trail that leads to a crime at an art museum.
#12 - The Case of the Perfect Husband
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/2/1955
Russell Partridge announces to his wife Janet one day that he is in fact a killer who has murdered his six previous wives, and notifies her that she has one day to live and get her affairs in order before he murders her, too. Janet can get no one to believe her tale, except Holmes and Watson, who must devise a plan to trap the killer before Janet's time runs out.
#13 - The Case of the Impromtu Performance
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 6/6/1955
A condemned man scheduled to hang the next day uses his last request to ask Sherlock Holmes to prove his innocence of the murder for which he is about to be executed.
#14 - The Case of the Split Ticket
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1955
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return to their flat to find Brian O'Casey waiting for them. The over-excited O'Casey struggles to get his points across, but eventually he explains how he, his friend Albert, and a young woman whom he met in a bakery shop shared the price of a sweepstakes ticket, tearing the ticket into three pieces, one for each of them to hold. Their number won, and they each stand to win 8,000 pounds. But now Albert has disappeared, and unless the other two can find him by midnight, the ticket will expire, and then they won't be able to collect their winnings.
#15 - The Case of the Deadly Prophecy
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1955
Holmes and Watson are called to a boy's school in Belgium. It seems that a young student has gotten into the habit of writing the names of faculty members on the steps of a nearby church, and shortly afterwards person whose name has been written down is found dead.
#16 - The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/20/1955
A political leader is being blackmailed, and to find the blackmailers, Holmes and Watson join a lonely hearts club. However, things don't go quite as planned, and Holmes winds up getting arrested and thrown in jail.
#17 - The Case of the Unlucky Gambler
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 7/18/1955
A young boy shows up at Baker Street, asking for Holmes' help in finding his missing father. Holmes' investigation reveals that the man is a gambler on the run from his creditors, and the team begins to make the rounds of the seedy gambling underworld in search of the boy's father.
#18 - The Case of the Red Headed League
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/1954
Sherlock Holmes investigates a strange story told to him by a shopkeeper, who claims to have been a member of the 'League of Red-Headed Men' until it unexpectedly dissolved.
#19 - The Case of the Reluctant Carpenter
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1955
Sherlock Holmes races against time in order to find the location of a bomb that was planted somewhere in London by an extortionist.
#20 - The Case of the Exhumed Client
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/30/1955
Sir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his mysterious Farnsworth Castle. It turns out that Farnsworth had a clause inserted in this will that his death, no matter what the apparent cause, would be investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes' investigation reveals traces of arsenic in the man's body, and there seems to be no shortage of people who knew Sir Charles who wanted him dead.
#21 - The Case of the Winthrop Legend
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/29/1954
Sherlock Holmes seeks a rational explanation for the Winthrop family legend, which foretells the death of any family member who unexpectedly finds silver coins in his possession.
#22 - The Mother Hubbard Case
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/20/1954
Sherlock Holmes tracks down a murderer who uses a young girl to lure victims to empty houses, where they are killed.
#23 - The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/25/1955
A baby is left on Holmes' and Watson's doorstep. The child turns out to be the son of a missing French scientist. When Watson is later brutally attacked and the baby kidnapped, the detectives must find the baby and its father and avoid an international scandal.
#24 - The Case of the Haunted Gainsborough
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 7/4/1955
This is the story of the hunt for the MacGregor treasure -- and curse. The villain would be the castle's foreclosing mortgage holder, Archibald Ross.
#25 - The Case of the Careless Suffragette
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/28/1955
A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball, intending only to draw attention to her cause, but it is switched with a real croquet ball and explodes, killing a member of Parliament.