
The first American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories were produced by Sheldon Reynolds and filmed in France by Guild Films, starring Ronald Howard as Holmes and Howard Marion Crawford as Watson. Archie Duncan appeared in many episodes as Inspector Lestrade. Richard Larke, billed as Kenneth Richards, played Sgt. Wilkins in about fifteen episodes. The series' associate producer, Nicole Milinaire, was one of the first women to attain a senior production role in a television series.
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Air Date: 1954-10-18
Dr. John Watson meets private detective Sherlock Holmes, and assists him in solving a case that has confused Inspecto...
Air Date: 1954-10-25
Lady Beryl confesses to a murder that was committed at her home, but Sherlock Holmes is convinced that she is innocent.
Air Date: 1954-11-01
Holmes and Watson travel to Sussex to investigate the murder of Squire Douglas, who was shot to death in a sealed-up ...
Air Date: 1954-11-08
A cowgirl from a visiting rodeo show asks Sherlock Holmes to help her when she discovers a dead man in her hotel room.
Air Date: 1954-11-15
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 m...
Air Date: 1954-11-22
Dr. Watson accidentally comes home from his club with another man's coat, providing an important clue when the other ...
Air Date: 1954-11-29
Sherlock Holmes seeks a rational explanation for the Winthrop family legend, which foretells the death of any family ...
Air Date: 1954-12-06
The only clue at the site of two grisly murders is a chicken's foot. Baffled, Insp. Lestrade goes to Sherlock Holmes ...
Air Date: 1954-12-06
Vaudeville escape artist Harry Crocker turns to Sherlock Holmes for help when he is accused of strangling a chorus girl.
Air Date: 1954-12-20
Sherlock Holmes tracks down a murderer who uses a young girl to lure victims to empty houses, where they are killed.
Air Date: 1954-12-27
Sherlock Holmes investigates a strange story told to him by a shopkeeper, who claims to have been a member of the 'Le...
Air Date: 1955-01-03
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are spending a restful day in the country, when they encounter a badly injured man who...
Air Date: 1955-01-10
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson return to their flat to find Brian O'Casey waiting for them. The over-excited O'Casey ...
Air Date: 1955-01-17
Dr. Watson urgently fetches Sherlock Holmes from his club, and brings him to see a French interpreter who urgently ne...
Air Date: 1955-01-24
Betty is being tormented by apparent hallucinations, the latest of which she refers to as a 'singing violin'. Her ste...
Air Date: 1955-01-31
Millicent Channing comes to consult Sherlock Holmes because her fiancé John has disappeared. John has recently been a...
Air Date: 1955-02-07
Sherlock Holmes helps one of Dr. Watson's old friends by explaining the source of an odd noise in the man's home, but...
Air Date: 1955-02-14
Sherlock Holmes helps Scotland Yard to track down a killer who has been leaving three thistles next to each of the wo...
Air Date: 1955-02-21
When Sherlock Holmes disappears, Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade begin a search that leads them to a small shop.
Air Date: 1955-02-28
A zealous suffragette acquires a bomb shaped like a croquet ball, intending only to draw attention to her cause, but ...
Air Date: 1955-03-07
Sherlock Holmes races against time in order to find the location of a bomb that was planted somewhere in London by an...
Air Date: 1955-03-14
Holmes and Watson are called to a boy's school in Belgium. It seems that a young student has gotten into the habit of...
Air Date: 1955-04-04
When a serial killer is sentenced to death, he issues a threat that he will kill Sherlock Holmes before he himself is...
Air Date: 1955-04-11
A young boy and his father are traveling on a train, and after they have a fight, the boy runs out of the compartment...
Air Date: 1955-04-18
"Aunt Lottie", an advice columnist who is actually a man named Alex Doogle, advises a young woman to break up with he...
Air Date: 1955-04-25
A baby is left on Holmes' and Watson's doorstep. The child turns out to be the son of a missing French scientist. Whe...
Air Date: 1955-03-02
Russell Partridge announces to his wife Janet one day that he is in fact a killer who has murdered his six previous w...
Air Date: 1955-05-09
Jessie Hooper hires Holmes to find her missing husband, William, and -- with the help of Lestrade's cousin MacDougal ...
Air Date: 1955-05-16
Holmes and Watson return from a vacation at Brighton to find an impostor has been impersonating Holmes, misadvising L...
Air Date: 1955-05-23
After a famous criminal is run over and killed by a milk truck, Insp. Lestrade finds a mysterious coded note in the m...
Air Date: 1955-05-30
Sir Charles Farnsworth is found dead in his mysterious Farnsworth Castle. It turns out that Farnsworth had a clause i...
Air Date: 1955-06-06
A condemned man scheduled to hang the next day uses his last request to ask Sherlock Holmes to prove his innocence of...
Air Date: 1955-06-20
A political leader is being blackmailed, and to find the blackmailers, Holmes and Watson join a lonely hearts club. H...
Air Date: 1955-06-27
As payment for solving a case, Holmes and Watson are invited to spend a weekend at an estate in the Balkans. However,...
Air Date: 1955-07-04
This is the story of the hunt for the MacGregor treasure -- and curse. The villain would be the castle's foreclosing ...
Air Date: 1955-07-11
Holmes begins acting even stranger than usual -- he tries to keep Watson from seeing the diamond necklace in his humi...
Air Date: 1955-07-18
A young boy shows up at Baker Street, asking for Holmes' help in finding his missing father. Holmes' investigation re...
Air Date: 1955-09-19
While walking along the banks of the River Thames, Watson finds a diamond tooth. The article takes on more meaning la...
Air Date: 1955-10-17
A chemist is accused of the murder of his fiancé's stepfather, who was determined to keep the two apart. Although the...
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