The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971)

Genre

anthology series, detective television series, Sherlock Holmes television program

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 26 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This anthology TV series adapts detective stories from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Each episode features a different character who solves mysteries and crimes, showing that Sherlock Holmes was not the only clever sleuth of his time.

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What happens

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a British anthology mystery television series produced by Thames Television which was originally broadcast on the ITV Network. There were two series of 13 fifty-minute episodes; the first aired in 1971, the second in 1973. The programme presented adaptations of short mystery, suspense or crime stories featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes took its inspiration – and title – from a series of published anthologies by Hugh Greene, younger brother of author Graham Greene and the former director-general of the BBC. Greene is credited on the programme as a creative consultant. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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