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 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.
#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 Shy Ballerina
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1954
Dr. Watson accidentally comes home from his club with another man's coat, providing an important clue when the other man is murdered late that same night.
#4 - 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.
#5 - The Case of the Tyrant's Daughter
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 10/17/1955
A chemist is accused of the murder of his fiancé's stepfather, who was determined to keep the two apart. Although there is mounting evidence of the chemist's guilt, Holmes is requested by the old man's housekeeper to investigate the case, as she believes the young man to be innocent.
#6 - The Case of the Christmas Pudding
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/4/1955
When a serial killer is sentenced to death, he issues a threat that he will kill Sherlock Holmes before he himself is executed.
#7 - The Case of the Night Train Riddle
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/11/1955
A young boy and his father are traveling on a train, and after they have a fight, the boy runs out of the compartment and seems to have vanished into thin air. Although his governess thinks he has simply run away, Holmes begins to suspect something a bit more serious, and his investigation leads him to a nearby circus.
#8 - The Case of the Violent Suitor
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/18/1955
"Aunt Lottie", an advice columnist who is actually a man named Alex Doogle, advises a young woman to break up with her violent and insanely jealous boyfriend. The jilted boyfriend then finds Doogle, severely beats him and threatens his life. Doogle turns to Sherlock Holmes, both for his own protection and to save the young woman from her crazed fiancé.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - The Case of the Jolly Hangman
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 5/9/1955
Jessie Hooper hires Holmes to find her missing husband, William, and -- with the help of Lestrade's cousin MacDougal of Glasgow -- he his found hung -- like his grandfather. A rope salesman's laugh is the key clue. It is ironically the window that William never returned to repair that traps villain by his tie.
#12 - The Case of the Impostor Mystery
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/16/1955
Holmes and Watson return from a vacation at Brighton to find an impostor has been impersonating Holmes, misadvising Lestrade to guard Hambleburg's not Carrolton's jewelry store and Sir Arthur to hide his valuables in the biscuit jar. Fighting impersonation with impersonation, Watson becomes the maharaja of Gampoor.
#13 - The Case of the Eiffel Tower
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/23/1955
After a famous criminal is run over and killed by a milk truck, Insp. Lestrade finds a mysterious coded note in the man's clothing. He asks Holmes to decipher it, and Holmes' subsequent investigation leads him to assume the dead gangster's identity and he follows a trail of clues to Paris.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#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 Royal Murder
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/27/1955
As payment for solving a case, Holmes and Watson are invited to spend a weekend at an estate in the Balkans. However, their vacation is cut short when another guest, Prince Stefan, is poisoned and their host is accused of the murder. Holmes must find the real killer before he himself becomes the next victim.
#18 - 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.
#19 - The Case of the Neurotic Detective
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 7/11/1955
Holmes begins acting even stranger than usual -- he tries to keep Watson from seeing the diamond necklace in his humidor, refuses to help Lestrade with the crime wave and dresses up to go with a Miss Jennifer Ames to a dance!
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Case of the Diamond Tooth
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 9/19/1955
While walking along the banks of the River Thames, Watson finds a diamond tooth. The article takes on more meaning later, however, when Holmes learns that the body of a murder victim had been discovered near where Watson found the tooth.
#22 - The Case of the Shoeless Engineer
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1955
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are spending a restful day in the country, when they encounter a badly injured man who is carrying an unconscious young woman. They take the pair back to their flat in London, and after Dr. Watson has treated them, the man explains what has happened to them. He is Haterley, a hydraulic engineer with a business of his own. He had been hired by Colonel Stark and an associate, who wanted him to fix a large hydraulic press for them. He was taken to the colonel's country home, where their housekeeper tried frantically to warn him about Stark. After a tumultuous encounter, he and the housekeeper had barely escaped with their lives. From other details, Holmes deduces that Stark was involved in counterfeiting. Holmes, Watson, and Inspector Lestrade then set out to finish the case.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.