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Sherlock Holmes
Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Jeremy Brett
Sherlock Holmes
41 eps
David Burke
Dr. John H. Watson
13 eps
Edward Hardwicke
Dr. John H. Watson
28 eps
Rosalie Williams
Mrs. Hudson
41 eps
Eric Porter
Professor Moriarty
3 eps
Colin Jeavons
Inspector Lestrade
6 eps
Roger Hammond
Jabez Wilson
1 eps
Tim McInnerny
John Clay
1 eps
Natasha Richardson
Violet Hunter
1 eps
George Costigan
Wilson Kemp
1 eps
Richard Wilson
Duncan Ross
1 eps
Frank Middlemass
Henry Baker
1 eps
Ronald Pickup
Barrymore
1 eps
William Ilkley
Selden
1 eps
Cheryl Campbell
Lady Frances Carfax
1 eps
Julian Curry
Albert Shlessinger
1 eps
Mary Cunningham
Miss Calder
1 eps
Jack Klaff
The Hon. Philip Green
1 eps
Nicholas Fry
Hotel Manager
1 eps
Michael Jayston
The Earl of Rufton
1 eps
Anthony Benson
Vicar
1 eps
Anthony Schaeffer
Bank Official
1 eps
Daniel Massey
J. Neil Gibson
1 eps
Margo Stanley
Woman in Undertakers
1 eps
Celia Gregory
Maria Gibson
1 eps
Catherine Russell
Grace Dunbar
1 eps
Niven Boyd
Marlow Bates
1 eps
Andrew Wilde
Sergeant Coventry
1 eps
Philip Bretherton
Mr. Joyce Cummings Q.C.
1 eps
Robin Ellis
Sir Robert Norberton
1 eps
Dean Magri
Billy
1 eps
Elizabeth Weaver
Lady Beatrice Falder
1 eps
Frank Grimes
John Mason
1 eps
Denise Black
Carrie Evans
1 eps
Michael Bilton
Stephens
1 eps
Martin Stone
Sandy Bain
1 eps
James Coyle
Samuel Brewer
1 eps
Peter Vaughan
John Turner
1 eps
Jude Law
Joe Barnes
1 eps
Jonathan Barlow
Inspector Summerby
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Sherlock Holmes actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Sherlock Holmes reads strongest on Character Depth, Tension and Cliffhanger Intensity.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
The run
Seasons
7 seasons · 41 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
19847 episodes
8.3IMDbAll episodes for Season 1 are based on stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally published in The Strand magazine and in Doyle's first collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories titled "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."
Best episode · S01E06 The Speckled Band
Season 2 · Complete
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
19856 episodes
8.4IMDbAll episodes for Season 2 are based on stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally published in The Strand magazine and in Doyle's first collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories titled "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes."
Best episode · S02E06 The Final Problem
Season 3 · Complete
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
19867 episodes
7.8IMDbThe series continues under the name "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" for the next two years. Otherwise, it's the same series as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The main differences are that the stories come from Doyle's second collection of short stories titled,"The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Edward Hardwicke replaces David Burke as Dr. John Watson.
Best episode · S03E03 The Second Stain
Season 4 · Complete
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
19876 episodes
7.8IMDbIn addition to adaptations to some of Doyle's short stories from "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", there are also two feature-length TV movies based on novels written by Doyle: "The Sign of Four" and the ever popular "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
Best episode · S04E06 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Season 5 · Complete
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
19916 episodes
7.9IMDbThis 5th Season features adaptations of short stories found in Doyle's book, "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes."
Best episode · S05E05 The Illustrious Client
Season 6 · Complete
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
19923 episodes
7.1IMDbThis isn't really a season so much as three feature length TV movies that were broadcast from 1991 through 1994, again with the same actors, production company and style as the others that came before.
Best episode · S06E01 The Master Blackmailer
Season 7 · Complete
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
19946 episodes
7.3IMDbThe final season of Sherlock Holmes as portrayed by Jeremy Brett. His appearance has changed and he will soon die of heart failure. The plan had been to adapt all of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories but time is running out for their star icon and Granada decided to end the series when Brett died. These are the last performances from a great British actor who is classed as portraying one of the world's most iconic presentations of Sherlock Holmes. The series was first known as "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, after the title of the collected short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Best episode · S07E02 The Dying Detective
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S04E06
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on Dartmoor, with his face contorted in terror and the footprints of a huge dog near his body. On arrival in England, Sir Charles's American heir, now Sir Henry Baskerville, engages Holmes to come to Devon and get to the bottom of the age-old legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles - a phantom which kills.From the outset, Holmes is convinced there is a human murderer at work and he lays a deep plan to foil him.
- Directed by Brian Mills
S02E06
The Final Problem
The French government sends for Holmes when the Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre. Holmes swiftly decides he is dealing with a mastermind - and none other than his old enemy Professor Moriarty himself.Holmes foils Moriarty's plans to sell Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece and trails him to Switzerland, where they meet and fight to the death above the famous waterfall at Reichenbach.
- Directed by Alan Grint
S02E05
The Red-Headed League
A notice in a newspaper seeks red-headed men, inviting them to join a league which will pay them well - and Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker who responds, finds he is hired and paid generously for spending four hours a day copying an encyclopedia in long hand. When the league is suddenly dissolved, Holmes is asked to find out what has been going on, and he quickly suspects crime. Indeed, behind this curious arrangement lurks Holmes's arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty.
- Directed by John Bruce
S02E03
The Norwood Builder
A young solicitor, John Hector McFarlane, seeks Holmes's help after retired builder Jonas Oldacre dies in a fire. McFarlane, who benefits from Oldacre's will, is suspected of murder and asks Holmes to clear his name. Holmes looks for another motive and another killer, and dresses up as a tramp to get the information he needs about the Oldacre household. The surprising answer he finds is that Oldacre is not exactly dead.
- Directed by Ken Grieve
S01E06
The Speckled Band
Holmes is approached by Helen Stoner, who feels threatened by her domineering step-father, Dr Grimesby Roylott. Her sister died mysteriously just before her planned wedding, and Helen has heard again the curious whistle she first heard on the night of her sister's death.Holmes perceives great danger and lays a complicated plan to defeat the threat to the beautiful Helen.
- Directed by John Bruce
S02E04
The Resident Patient
Dr Trevelyan calls on Holmes on behalf of his friend Blessington, after a Russian father and son vanish during a consultation. Blessington knows of no one who wishes him ill, but he is found hanged the next day. Holmes investigates, with advice from Watson.
- Directed by David Carson
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Sally HeadExecutive Producer
- Michael CoxExecutive Producer
- Michael CoxProducer
- Rebecca EatonExecutive Producer
- June Wyndham-DaviesProducer
Direction
- Howard BakerDirector
- Ken HannamDirector
- John GorrieDirector
- Michael A. SimpsonDirector
- Ken GrieveDirector
- Paul AnnettDirector
Cinematography
- Doug HallowsDirector of Photography
- David OddDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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