Episode 1
The Sign of Four
1987-12-29 • 50 min
A woman receives one large and valuable pearl anonymously every year. When an invitation arrives to meet the mysterious pearl-giver, she seeks Holmes's advice.
TV season
1987-12-29
Adaptations to some of Doyle's short stories from "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", and two feature-length TV movies based on novels written by Doyle: "The Sign of Four" and the ever popular "The Hound of the Baskervilles."
Episode 1
1987-12-29 • 50 min
A woman receives one large and valuable pearl anonymously every year. When an invitation arrives to meet the mysterious pearl-giver, she seeks Holmes's advice.
Episode 2
1988-04-06 • 50 min
After an illness, Holmes reluctantly takes a holiday with Watson for company and ends up investigating an unexplained tragedy that occurred to three siblings after a quiet evening at home playing cards.
Episode 3
1988-04-13 • 50 min
Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.
Episode 4
1988-04-20 • 51 min
A bored Holmes eagerly accepts a case involving the disappearance of an amateur Spanish cartographer as well as his servants from his rented country lodge.
Episode 5
1988-04-27 • 52 min
Sherlock's brother Mycroft enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.
Episode 6
1988-08-31 • 105 min
Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead with his face contorted in terror and the footprints of a huge dog near his body. His heir engages Holmes to get to the bottom of the age-old family curse of the phantom hound.