The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Season 2

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Season 2

Season 2

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

All 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"
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Episodes13
DatesJul 9, 1986 - Aug 31, 1988
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Episodes

The Empty House
Season 2Episode 160 min

The Empty House

Believed dead after his fatal encounter with Professor Moriarity three years earlier, Sherlock Holmes returns to England to foil a plot to murder him by a former Moriarity gang member.

Jul 9, 1986
The Abbey Grange
Season 2Episode 260 min

The Abbey Grange

Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker, and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.

Jul 16, 1986
The Musgrave Ritual
Season 2Episode 360 min

The Musgrave Ritual

An obscure family document containing an enigmatic ritual holds the key to a hidden treasure if Holmes can decipher the mystery.

Jul 23, 1986
The Second Stain
Season 2Episode 460 min

The Second Stain

Holmes is asked by the country's Prime Minister to aid in the recovery of a stolen diplomatic letter, which, if published, might lead England into war.

Jul 30, 1986
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Season 2Episode 560 min

The Man with the Twisted Lip

Responding to a grieving wife, Holmes investigates the apparent murder of her husband in an apartment above an opium den.

Aug 6, 1986
The Priory School
Season 2Episode 660 min

The Priory School

The headmaster of a prestigious prep school calls on Holmes for help when the ten year old only son of powerful duke disappears.

Aug 13, 1986
The Six Napoleons
Season 2Episode 760 min

The Six Napoleons

Inspector Lastrade reveals to Holmes that someone has been breaking into homes for the senseless purpose of destroying small busts of Napoleon.

Aug 20, 1986
The Sign of Four
Season 2Episode 860 min

The Sign of Four

The disappearance of a young woman's father, and a mysterious note years later after the strange regular annual delivery of valuable pearls to her, puts Sherlock Holmes on the case.

Dec 29, 1987
The Devil's Foot
Season 2Episode 960 min

The Devil's Foot

While convalescing in Cornwall, a depressive Holmes investigates the apparent death from apoplexy of a local woman and the unexplained sudden dementia of her two brothers.

Apr 6, 1988
Silver Blaze
Season 2Episode 1060 min

Silver Blaze

Holmes investigates the disappearance of a champion racehorse and the murder of its trainer on a lonely moor.

Apr 13, 1988
Wisteria Lodge
Season 2Episode 1160 min

Wisteria Lodge

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.

Apr 20, 1988
The Bruce Partington Plans
Season 2Episode 1260 min

The Bruce Partington Plans

Sherlock's brother, Mycroft, enlists his younger sibling to locate missing patent plans that pertain to a strategically critical state-of-the-art submarine.

Apr 27, 1988
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Season 2Episode 1360 min

The Hound of the Baskervilles

When the latest heir to the Baskerville estate seems to be threatened by a family curse, only the master detective, Sherlock Holmes, can find out the truth.

Aug 31, 1988

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