An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
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Now playing Season 1, Episode 10 — The Affair of the Tortoise
September 20, 1971
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7.5
Hugh Greene
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Season 1 • 13 episodes
This episode features Dr Thorndyke, played by John Neville, who is first a medical man and second a solver of mysteries. A young girl has been murdered in her boarding house and the solution looks obvious - but is it? Neville plays the sleuth with aplomb and this is a strong opening episode. The character is arrogant, capable, and likable - and of course his intelligence makes his police colleagues and/or adversaries look like idiots!
Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.
Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.
Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.
Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.
Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.
Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.
Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.
Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.
Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.
Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.
Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.
Pearson Television International
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Thames Television
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