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EP0594: Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of Shoscombe Old Place

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:01:50 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is called in at the behest of a horse trainer, suspicious that its owner may be losing his mind.

Original Air Date: February 15, 1948

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EP0589: Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of The Sanguinary Spectre

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:01:51 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is called to spend the night at an old British manor and stop it from being sold to a pickle king.

Original Air Date: February 8, 1948

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Sleuths of My Youth: Sherlock Holmes

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:01:48 +0000

Previous post: Encyclopedia Brown

When visiting my grandfather's house when I was eight, I stumbled on Sherlock Holmes for the first time. He owned a standalone copy of the "Red Headed League." I read the whole thing in one reading and became fascina Read more ...

EP0584: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Avenging Blade

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:01:20 +0000

Sherlock Holmes helps the lord of a manor who has received a threatening letter.

Original Air Date: February 1, 1948

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EP0579: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Engineer’s Thumb

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:01:08 +0000

A man who was attacked and nearly murdered comes to Watson for treatment and Holmes for help.

Original Air Date: January 25, 1948

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EP0574: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Lucky Shilling

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:01:35 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is asked by the Lady Monooth to help find her son. While she's talking to Holmes, her son comes in and hangs himself

Original Air Date: January 18, 1948

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EP0569: Sherlock Holmes: New Year’s Eve Off The Scilly Isles

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 06:01:49 +0000

Sherlock Holmes and Watson race to save a luxury liner from being blown up.

Original Air Date: November 28, 1947

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EP0564: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Christmas Bride

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:01:33 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is invited to spend the holidays with a family that needs him to assure a wedding occurs.

Original Air Date: December 21, 1947

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EP0559: Sherlock Holmes: The Case Of Sudden Senility

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:01:11 +0000

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a five year old horse that died of senility.

Original Air Date: January 11, 1948

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Book Review: The Sign of Four

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:37:18 +0000

The Sign of Four begins when a young woman comes to Sherlock Holmes with a problem. Her father disappeared from his hotel in London on returning on leave from India. She then began receiving a pearl a year for the past six year from an anonymous benefactor. She wants Holmes and Watson to accompany the mysterious rendezvous. The benefactor inform Read more ...

EP0554: Sherlock Holmes: The Mazarin Stone

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:01:55 +0000

Sherlock Holmes seeks to recover the stolen crown diamond and finds his life on the line.

Original Air Date: January 4, 1948

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EP0549: Sherlock Holmes: The Sussex Vampire

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:01:04 +0000

Sherlock Holmes ic called in to investigate charges that a South American wife of a rich man is abusing the man's children, with an allegation of vampirism.

Original Air Date: December 14, 1947

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EP0544: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of Professor Moriarty and the Diamond Jubilee

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:01:27 +0000

Six years after their famous battle, Professor Moriarty returns to menace Sherlock Holmes as Queen Victoria is celebrating her diamond jubilee.

Original Air Date: December 7, 1947

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EP0539: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Cradle that Rocked Itself

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:01:51 +0000

Sherlock Holmes returns to the Cornish country and investigates a frightening story of a rocking cradle that's frightening a pregnant woman and endangering her life.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1947

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EP0534: Sherlock Holmes: The Stolen Naval Treaty

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:01:19 +0000

Holmes helps a friend of Watson's who works in the foreign office and lost a treaty vital to British national security.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1947

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EP0529: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Well-Staged Murder

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:01:33 +0000

A doctor is shot and the evidence seems to point in one direction, but Holmes thinks its a frame up.

Original Air Date: November 16, 1947

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EP0524: Sherlock Holmes: The Cadaver in the Roman Toga

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:01:39 +0000

Sherlock Holmes goes to investigate the case of a man found dead in Toga where there used to be Roman baths.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1947

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EP0519: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:01:15 +0000

A young governess turns to Holmes when she receives an unusual offer of employment.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1947

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EP0514: Sherlock Holmes: The Laughing Lemur of High Tower Heath

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:01:29 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is up against an old legend that states a young child who is doomed to die.

Original Air Date: October 26, 1947

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EP0509: Sherlock Holmes: The Affair of the Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 06:01:26 +0000

Sherlock Holmes tries to break up the Limehouse drug trade, but finds himself confronted with the murder of Madam Fishface.

Original Air Date: October 19, 1947

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EP0504: Sherlock Holmes: The Red Headed League (Stanley)

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:01:47 +0000

Sherlock Holmes investigates the case of a man who was hired to do nominal work for a mysterious league for red-headed men.

Original Air Date: October 12, 1947'

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EP0499: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Missing Heiress

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:01:07 +0000

Sherlock Holmes searches for the daughter of a Canadian multimillionaire.

Original Air Date: October 5, 1947

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EP0494: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dog Who Changed His Mind

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:01:59 +0000

A rich woman dies after her 89th birthday after her drinking her last bottle of birthday wine.

Original Air Date: September 28, 1947

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EP0489: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Iron Maiden

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:01:31 +0000

While visiting Nuremburg, the curator of a black museum asks Holmes to investigate anonymous letters attacking him. While touring the museum, a body is found in the iron maiden.< Read more ...

The Endurance of Johnny Dollar and Sherlock Holmes

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:01:39 +0000

This is the first article that's based on a listener/reader question. Wben I was soliciting questions for starting this column on Facebook, Matthew wrote:

How about a study on why Johnny dollar and Sherlock Holmes lasted as long as they did while others shows didn't.

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EP0484: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Innocent Murderess

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:01:52 +0000

A woman bursts into 221B Baker street and shoots a foreign emissary staying with Holmes. Holmes and Watson testify against the woman, but then have to scramble to find what reall Read more ...

EP0479: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:01:18 +0000

A young woman who is engaged to be married comes to Holmes because she is afraid that she'll share the fate of her sister and die before her wedding.

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EP0474: Sherlock Holmes: Death in the North Sea

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:01:12 +0000

The widow of a murdered older man hires Holmes to prove her love (and the dead man's business partner) innocent of his killing.

Original Air Date: June 16, 1947

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EP0469: Sherlock Holmes: Murder in the Locked Room

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:01:07 +0000

A mystery writer comes up with an idea for a locked room mystery while drunk, but forgets the solution. He goes to Holmes and tricks him into providing the solution. He then wind Read more ...

EP0464: Sherlock Holmes: The Red Headed League

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:01:33 +0000

Holmes and Watson investigate a mysterious league for red headed men that hired a local shopkeeper to copy pages from the encyclopedia and then discontinued his services.

EP0459: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Submerged Baronet

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:01:34 +0000

Holmes and Watson witness an apparent accidential drowning, but Holmes suspects homicide. But how can he prove it?

Original Air Date: May 26, 1947

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EP0454: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Harley Street Murders

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 06:01:37 +0000

Doctors are being murdered on Harley Street and Holmes thinks Moriarity is involved.

Original Air Date: May 19, 1947

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EP0449: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:01:40 +0000

A respectable Englishman finds himself mixed up in a murder after his host ends up dead and turns to Holmes for help.

Original Air Date: May 12, 1947

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EP0444: Sherlock Holmes: The Remarkable Affair of the Pointless Robbery

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:01:01 +0000

While in retirement, Sherlock Holmes investigates a seemingly random burglary of the local vicar's home but finds something far more sinister is afoot.

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EP0439: Sherlock Holmes: The Island of Death

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:01:07 +0000

A psychologist hires four circus sideshow performers to head to a desserted Island off of Scotland.

Original Air Date: April 28, 1947

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EP0434: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:01:02 +0000

While retired, Sherlock Holmes investigates the murder of a school teacher.

Original Air Date: April 21, 1947

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EP0429: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Carpathian Horror

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:01:30 +0000

Holmes is hired by a count with a family history shrouded in mystery who fears he's going insane.

Original Air Date: April 14, 1947

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EP0424: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Tolling Bell

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 06:01:21 +0000

While on vacation in a rural village, Holmes investigates the disappearance of a local woman's son.

Original Air Date: April 7, 1947

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EP0419: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Maltree Abbey

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:01:08 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is called in by a woman who hopes that a song will save her family's estate.

Original Air Date: March 31, 1947

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EP0414: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Scarlet Worm

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 26 May 2011 06:01:34 +0000

Watson goes undercover to catch a femme fatale, but will he have the heart to trap her.

Original Air Date: March 24, 1947

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EP0409: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Creeping Man

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 19 May 2011 06:01:56 +0000

A startling change in a college professor including the professor's wolf hound attacking him.

Original Air Date: March 17, 1947

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EP0404: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Egyptian Curse

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 12 May 2011 06:01:21 +0000

Holmes and Watson investigate a case where several deaths revolve around a purported Egyptian curse.

Original Air Date: March 10, 1947

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EP0399: Sherlock Holmes: Queue for Murder

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 05 May 2011 06:01:37 +0000

A dead man in an opioum den leads to a dead doctor and then a headless corpse.

Original Air Date: March 3, 1947

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EP0394: Sherlock Holmes: The Horseless Carriage

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:01:27 +0000

Holmes is hired to guard a car from sabotage before an endurance race.

Original Air Date: February 24, 1947

EP0389: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipes

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:01:30 +0000

Holmes and Watson head to Edinburgh to investigate a report of haunted tenements involving the devil and a bagpiper.

Original Air Date: February 17, 1947

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EP0384: Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Persecuted Millionaire

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 06:01:22 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is hired by a millionaire who is receiving death threats.

Original Air Date: February 10, 1947

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EP0383: Let George Do It: Run Until Dead

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:01:10 +0000

A crime-busting crusader hires George to make contact with the father of a witness. George finds the witness has died, and that's only the first death on Read more ...

EP0379: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Dying Detective

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:01:35 +0000

Watson is summoned by Mrs. Hudson to the flat of an ailing Sherlock Holmes, who refuses medical care and tells Watson he's dying.

Original Air Date: February 3, 1947

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Video Theater 015: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Lady Beryl

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:01:18 +0000

Lady Beryl (Paulette Goddard) confesses to a crime she didn't commit. Holmes is retained to find out why.

Season 1, Episode 2 (Original Air Date: October 25, 1954)

The Rathbone-Bruce Countdown, Part Four

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:04:00 +0000

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EP0374: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Babbling Butler

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 06:01:30 +0000

The butler of a playwright who has satirized Holmes comes to Holmes for helping fearing his master is about to kill him.

Original Air Date: January 27, 1947

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The Rathbone-Bruce Countdown, Part Three

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 02:13:01 +0000

Continuing on our list of Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies from best to worst (see Part One and Part Two):

6) The House of Fear (1945)

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EP0369: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:01:11 +0000

Also known as the Cornish horror. While recovering from a convalescence, Holmes has to solve a bizarre murder that local legend would seem to blame on the devil.

The Rathbone-Bruce Countdown, Part Two

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:17:19 +0000

Continuing on our list of Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies from best to worst (see Part One):

10) Pursuit to Algiers (1945):

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EP0364: Sherlock Holmes: The Darlington Substitution Case

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:01:20 +0000

Early in his career and desperate for a case, Holmes accepts as a job as a bodyguard to an unlikable man who turns out to be blackmailer.

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The Rathbone-Bruce Countdown, Part One

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:58:27 +0000

Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson. It doesn't get much better than that. From the late 1930s through the mid-1940s, they were Holmes and Watson.

I've seen all 14 films and they're a remarkable mix of detective stories, crime stories, spy thrillers, suspense, and a few touches of comedy. The films gave us the definitive Read more ...

EP0359: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the White Cockerel

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:01:26 +0000

While Sherlock Holmes is retired on his bee farm, he is asked to investigate a missing chicken. He finds the case is far more serious than first thought as a human life is at sta Read more ...

EP0354: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Grand Old Man

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:01:21 +0000

Sherlock Holmes needs to ensure that a dying elderly playwrite isn't murdered, and to help him find the living relatives of the man whose play he stole.

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EP0349: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Elusive Emerald

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:01:13 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is hired by the family of a duchess who claim she is a kleptomaniac. The duchess denies it, but Holmes follows her and the r Read more ...

EP0344: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Coptic Compass

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:01:17 +0000

In order to distract Holmes, so he can steal a valuable jewel, Moriarty plants a fascinating murder in Holmes flat.

Original Air Date: December 7, 1946

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EP0339: Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Death of Mrs. Abernathy

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 07:01:17 +0000

Sherlock Holmes investigates the death of a country matriarch in a house where everyone has a motive. The key clue? Parsley.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1946

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EP0334: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sally Martin

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:01:17 +0000

Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of the owner of a ship.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1946

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EP0329: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Genuine Gunarius

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:01:36 +0000

Sherlocks Holmes helps a famous singer who is being blacmailed. When he shows up to collect his fee, he finds his client dead.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1946

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EP0324: Sherlock Holmes: The Singular Affair of the Dying Schoolboys

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:15:45 +0000

A man hires Holmes to investigate the death of his young brother at an exclusive boarding school run by an odd doctor.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1946

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EP0319: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Original Hamlet

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:01:02 +0000

A man who is nearly run over by a carriage tells Watson that he's being haunted by a ghost.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1946

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EP0314: Sherlock Holmes: The Clue of the Hungry Cat

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:01:31 +0000

A man is convicted of murdering a woman, but Holmes believes otherwise when he founds the victim's cat wasn't fed.

Original Air Date: October 26, 1946

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21st Century Sherlock

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:27:52 +0000

What if Sherlock Holmes had been born in modern times? The BBC's series, "Sherlock" gives you a good idea of how the greatest detective of them all would be different.

I have to admit being apprehensive of the new series and not really sure I'd enjoy it. However, there's little chance Read more ...

EP0309: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Black Angus

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:01:42 +0000

A son of a Scottish Lord breaks off his engagement and the jilted bride hires Holmes to find out the reason why. Holmes and Watson find themselves involved a mystery involv Read more ...

EP0304: Sherlock Holmes: Adventure of the Stuttering Ghost

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:01:53 +0000

A woman comes to Holmes with a "talking dog" for the purpose of robbing him of an old case file. Why?

Original Air Date: October 12, 1946

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EP0299: Sherlock Holmes: The Baconian Cipher

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:01:09 +0000

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Video Theater 011: Sherlock Holmes: The Christmas Pudding

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:01:01 +0000

A serial killer threatens to get Holmes before he's executed.

Episode 23 of the 1954-55 Sherlock Holmes series.

EP0294: Sherlock Holmes: The Haunting of Sherlock Holmes

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:01:27 +0000

Sherlock Holmes declines to work to exonerate a talented singer for treason, as he believes she's unquestionably guilty. After she's been execut Read more ...

EP0289: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Uneasy Chair

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:01:35 +0000

Scotland Yard has a suspect in the murder of a wealthy man, but no murder weapon, and the case begins to look think when another murder done in Read more ...

EP0284: Sherlock Holmes: The Man With the Twisted Lip

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 06:01:29 +0000

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EP0279: Sherlock Holmes: The Waltz of Death

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:01:29 +0000

Every time a certain waltz played in Austria, a beautiful woman is killed.

Original Air Date: April 29, 1946

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EP0274: Sherlock Holmes: The Tankerville Club Scandal

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:01:02 +0000

A young man is accused of cheating at cards. Holmes believes the man is innocent and one of Moriarity's associates is behind the frame with the goal of murder in mi Read more ...

EP0269: Sherlock Holmes: The Headless Monk

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:01:02 +0000

Holmes is off with a supernatural investigator to find out what's going on with the re-appearance of the legendary headless monk.

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EP0264: Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearing Scientists

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:01:27 +0000

Holmes wants to retire, but is in demand to solve one last case before taking up bee farming.

Original Air Date: April 8, 1946

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EP0259: Sherlock Holmes: The April Fools Adventure

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:01:33 +0000

Watson joins in an April Fools prank on Sherlock Holmes.

Original Air Date: April 1, 1946

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EP0254: Sherlock Holmes: The Girl with the Gazelle

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:01:34 +0000

An art expert disappears and Sherlock Holmes of being involved.

Original Air Date: March 25, 1946

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EP0249: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Blarney Stone

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:01:24 +0000

A hated businessman tries to win 10 pounds by kissing the Blarney Stone, but instead falls to his death and Holmes must found out who caused it Read more ...

Video Theater 009: Sherlock Holmes: The Cunningham Heritage

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 06:01:08 +0000

Sherlock Holmes (Ronald Howards) meets Dr. Watson (Marion Crawford) and they deal with their first adventure as a woman is suspected of killing her wealthy boyfriend.

Episode 1 (1954)

EP0244: Sherlock Holmes: The Living Doll

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:01:59 +0000

In 1910, Holmes comes out of retirement to help a little girl who has been threatened with black magic.

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EP0239: Sherlock Holmes: The Submarine Caves

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:01:01 +0000

Sherlock Holmes goes to a Channel Island on the pretext of collecting a pound of a butter for the British government, but he's really on a secret mission on which c Read more ...

EP0234: Sherlock Holmes: The Terrifying Cats

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:01:05 +0000

An opera singer with a deadly fear of cats turns to Holmes for help.

Original Air Date: February 25, 1946

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EP0229: Sherlock Holmes: The Camberwell Poisoning

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:01:39 +0000

Holmes and Watson investigate the poisoning of the hated head of a monied family.

Original Air Date: February 18, 1946

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EP0224: Sherlock Holmes: The Guileless Gypsy

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:01:50 +0000

A man hires Holmes alleging that Gypsies have threatened to kill his nephew, the heir to a large estate, but Holmes suspsects something far more sinister is afoot Read more ...

EP0214: Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of the Demon Barber

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:01:51 +0000

An actor who is playing Sweeney Todd believes he's becoming a murderer offstage and begs Holmes to prove it.

Original Air Date: January 28, 1946

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EP0209: Sherlock Holmes: The Telltale Pigeon Feathers

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:01:07 +0000

Mycroft Holmes surreptitiously gets Sherlock Holmes to investigate a case where a woman believe her tenant is werebird. Howeve Read more ...

Video Theater 007: Dressed to Kill

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 06:01:57 +0000

Shelrock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) takes on a gang of criminals who will do anyting to get their hands on three identifical music boxes.

Premiere: May 24, 1946

EP0204: Sherlock Holmes: Murder Beyond the Mountains

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:01:36 +0000

*During a time when Sherlock Holmes was believed to be dead, he confronts a murder mystery at a Tibetan monastery.

Original Air Date: January 14, 1946

EP0199: Sherlock Holmes: The Strange Case of The Murderer in Wax

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:01:13 +0000

Scotland Yard calls Sherlock Holmes in to catch a serial killer who has killed ten young women.

Original Air Date: January 7, 1946

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EP0194: Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Iron Box

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:01:00 +0000

An eighty-four year-old Scottish Lord who because of being born February 29 has been waiting 63-years for the inheritance he should have gotten when he was 21 finds Read more ...

EP0189: Sherlock Holmes: The Second Generation

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 06:01:48 +0000

*The daughter of Irene Adler has a favor to ask of Sherlock Holmes that involves attempted burglary.

Original Air Date: December 17, 1945

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EP0184: Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:01:31 +0000

A king hires Sherlock Holmes to get a compromising picture back from "the woman."

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EP0179: Sherlock Holmes: Murder in the Casbah

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:01:54 +0000

Holmes and Watson travel to the most lawless place on Earth in search of a young man who fled Britain to avoid prosecution for murder, and now that he' Read more ...

EP0174: Sherlock Holmes: The Accidental Murderess

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:01:36 +0000

A woman "accidentally" shoots Holmes and Holmes recognizes the woman as someone he'd implicated in a murder.

Original Air Date: November 26, 1945

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EP0169: Sherlock Holmes: The Double Zero

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:01:32 +0000

While in the South of France at a Casino, death comes to two local gamblers and it's up to Holmes to find the truth.

Original Air Date: November 19, 1945

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EP0164: Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:01:25 +0000

A young woman whose sister died from a mysterious poisoning asks Holmes and Watson to help, fearing her step father may kill her next.

Video Theater 005: Terror by Night

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:01:17 +0000

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) guard a valuable diamond on board a train bound for Scotland. When a murder occurs on the train, everyone is under suspicion in this action packed taut thriller.

U.S. Premier: February 11, 1946

EP0159: Sherlock Holmes: The Fifth of November

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:01:33 +0000

Holmes and Watson are off on a Guy Fawkes Day Adventure when a Mr. James Stuart comes in on November 5 and retains Holmes to protect him from his cousi Read more ...

EP0154: Sherlock Holmes: Murder in the Moonlight

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 27 May 2010 06:01:44 +0000

While undercover aboard a ship bound for India, Holmes and Watson, while operating under assumed names try to protect royalty from assassination.

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EP0149: Sherlock Holmes: The Great Gandolfo

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:01:57 +0000

*On a challenge from his brother, Mycroft, Sherlock Holmes comes out of retirement to help a young spy catcher find a spy working in a magic act.

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EP0144: Sherlock Holmes: The Manor House Case

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:01:19 +0000

Holmes goes undercover disguised as a German official who was almost killed in a bomb attack. With Holmes out of site, Lestrade brings Dr. Watson in to help s Read more ...

EP0139: Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Elephant

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 06 May 2010 06:01:52 +0000

*Holmes is called to India regarding the security of a White elephant whose death signals the coming death of a Maharaja.

EP0134: Sherlock Holmes: The Problem of Thor Bridge

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:01:16 +0000

Holmes is called in to investigate the death of the wife of a wealthy man, who is in loved with the alleged murderess.

Original Air Date: October 1, 1945

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EP0129: Sherlock Holmes: The Eyes of Mr. Leyton

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:01:14 +0000

Holmes tries to prevent a murder in an opium den.

Original Air Date: September 24, 1945

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EP0124: Sherlock Holmes: The Out of Date Murder

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:01:51 +0000

Holmes and Watson find a body that at first appears to answer the mystery of a disappearance more than a century before. However, Holmes suspects the corpse is of more recent vi Read more ...

Video Theater 003: The Woman in Green

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:01:36 +0000

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) seek to solve a series of brutal murders of young women.

Release Date: July 27, 1945

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EP0119: Sherlock Holmes: The Story of Colonel Warburton’s Madness

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:01:10 +0000

Dr. Watson is on vacation and runs into an old army man with a guest visiting from Africa. The Colonel hears whistles no one else does, and his niece insist Read more ...

EP0114: Sherlock Holmes: The Limping Ghost

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:01:18 +0000

Holmes is off to a Scottish castle to investigate the legend of a ghost whose appearance announces death.

Original Air Date: September 3, 1945

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EP0109: Sherlock Holmes: The Paradol Chamber

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:01:44 +0000

A female scientists wants Dr. Watson and his wife to invest in her invention, a metal which facilitates human teleportation.

Original Air Date: May 21, 1945

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EP0104: Sherlocks Holmes: In Flanders Field

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:01:05 +0000

Holmes and Watson come out of retirement to help the British Military in World War I. Holmes has to find out if an actor visiting the troops is really a tra Read more ...

EP0099: Sherlock Holmes: The Purloined Ruby

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:01:37 +0000

Sherlock Holmes again returns from retirement. This time he and Watson are trying to solve a mystery that surrounds a play based on Sherlock Holmes' adventures and a stolen ruby Read more ...

EP0094: Sherlock Holmes: The Unfortunate Tobacconist

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:01:58 +0000

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EP0089: Sherlock Holmes: The Notorious Canary Trainer

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:01:08 +0000

After retiring and while on vacation, Sherlock Holmes witnesses a suicide of one of Moriarity's former henchmen--or does he?

EP0084: Sherlock Holmes: The Vienese Strangler

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:01:41 +0000

Watson recalls an adventure in Vienna where Holmes had to solve the murder of a Blackmailer.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1945

EP0079: Sherlock Holmes: The Amateur Medicant Society

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:01:06 +0000

Dr. Watson is summoned to an eccentric club. Sherlock Holmes is called when it's believed a murder occurred.

Original Air Date: April 2, 1945

Video Theater 001: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:01:33 +0000

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Watson (Nigel Bruce) try to ensure that a devestating weapon and its creator don't fall into the hands of Professor Moriarity and the Nazis.

New York Premier: January 4, 1943

EP0074: Sherlock Holmes: The Book of Tobit

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:01:06 +0000

Is a demon from the Bible behind the death's of a beautiful woman's first two husbands and will Sherlock Holmes be the next to die?

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EP0069: Sherlock Holmes: The Superflous Pearl

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:01:14 +0000

Sherlock Holmes is retained to guard the necklace of a well-known actress at a party. His prime suspect? The snobbish sister of his client.

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EP0064: Sherlock Holmes: The Missing Bloodstains

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:01:55 +0000

Sherlocks Holmes investigates with political overtunes in a Turkish bath.

Original Air Date: May 15, 1944

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EP0059: Sherlock Holmes: Mrs. Warren’s Key

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:01:45 +0000

Sherlock Holmes investigates a mysterious lodger.

Original Air Date: December 7, 1941

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EP0054: Sherlock Holmes: The Copper Beeches

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:01:47 +0000

A young woman consults with Sherlock Holmes when she's offered a position as a governess with some strange conditions attached.

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EP0049: Sherlock Holmes: The Retired Colourman (Rathbone-Bruce)

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:01:24 +0000

Sherlock Holmes lets Doctor Watson take the lead in investigating a missing person's case involving the wife of retiree Josiah Amberly.

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EP0044: Sherlock Holmes: The Night Before Christmas

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:01:14 +0000

One of Moriarity's henchman switches Christmas sacks with Dr. Watson when both are dressed as Santa Claus. Sherlock Holmes has to catch the thief and save W Read more ...

EP0039: The Bruce Partington Plans (Rathbone-Bruce Version)

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:01:30 +0000

Sherlock Holmes' brother Mycroft calls on Holmes to help find stolen top secret papers relating to submarine plans.

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EP0034: Mercury Theater on the Air: The Immortal Sherlock Holmes

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:01:47 +0000

Sherlock Holmes (played by Orson Welles) seeks to reclaim letters being used as blackmail and foil the plans of Professor Moriarity.

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EP0029: Sherlock Holmes: The Armchair Solution

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:01:21 +0000

Confined to 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes gets a mystery he can solve in his own backyard when a neighbor is shot to death, and Holmes and Watson see her nephew flee the scene of the Read more ...

EP0024: Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:01:31 +0000

While on Vacation in Cornwall, Holmes and Watson find themselves in a mystery that has led to unexplained madness in one case and unexplained death in another.

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EP0019: Sherlock Holmes: Murder by Proxy

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:01:32 +0000

Sherlock Holmes investigates a case of disappearing cadavers.

Original Air Date: Sometime in 1935, though it may have been 1933. Who knows?

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EP0014: Sherlock Holmes: The Hebraic Breastplate

Yours Truly Johnny Blogger — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:01:55 +0000

Holmes investigates a mystery surrounding a relic dating back to the time of King Solomon.

Original Air Date: November 11, 1934

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