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Holmes and Watson find good companionship in a gypsy camp. But they also find kidnapping, attempted murder, and a beautiful girl who gives up her life for Holmes! You know, a typical evening in a gypsy camp…
The story is based on The Adventure Of The Red Circle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – The Guileless Gypsy
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Denis Green (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Dean Fosler (music), Edna Best (producer).
The title of the story is not announced but the above seems most appropriate. However, according to one source, a program with that name was broadcast only November 6, 1943 and scripts were re-used in this series. The story has also been referred to as “The Indiscretion Of Mr. Edwards.” A Sherlock Holmes reference book (which IS rife with errors) titles the broadcast on this date “The Cross Of Damascus” – which seems wholly inappropriate!
Holmes and Watson go undercover at the Paris Circus when The Prince of Wales himself is accused of murder!
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – Murder Under the Big Top
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Edna Best (producer), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator).
Holmes and Watson try to keep an actor who is portraying a fiendish killer, from being driven crazy. Holmes fails when the actor is found with his throat slit, just as Sweeney Todd would have done it! Holmes almost makes a very serious mistake.
The story is based on The Yellow Face.
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – The Case of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Anthony Boucher (wrtier), Dean Fosler (music), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Edna Best (producer).
Sherlock’s brother Mycroft puts Sherlock on the trail of a spy, and Doctor Watson finds himself arrested for murder!
The story is based on The Greek Interpreter.
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – The Telltale Pigeon Feathers
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Dean Fosler (music), Edna Best (producer), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator).
An untitled story set during the time Holmes was presumed dead after his disappearance at Reichenbach Falls. Traveling incognito in the Himalayan mountains, Holmes tries to solve the murder of a Tibetan monk!
The program is sometimes referred to as “Murder Beyond the Mountains” and is based on The Adventure of the Empty House by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – Murder Beyond the Mountains
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Denis Green (writer), Dean Fosler (music), Edna Best (producer), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator).
The program originates from Camp Roberts, California. Ten women have been murdered on Hampstead Heath. Holmes disguises himself as Dr. Watson and accepts the challenge to spend the night in a waxworks “Chamber Of Horrors.”
The story is based on The Adventure of the Second Stain by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – The Strange Case of the Murder in Wax
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Denis Green (writer), Dean Fosler (music), Edna Best (producer), Arthur Conan Doyle (creator).
An ancient cask filled with gold sits in Dunbar castle. A Scotsman born on leap year and the old Baronet pushed into the moat lead Holmes and Watson to a killer.
The story is based on Silver Blaze.
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – The Iron Box
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Anthony Boucher (writer), Denis Green (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Dean Fosler (music), Edna Best (producer).
A Christmas story with two Santas, one of them is “Lou the Lisper” – a henchman of Professor Moriarty!
The story is based on The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle.
The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes – The Night Before Christmas
Anthony Boucher (writer), Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Harry Bartell (announcer), Denis Green (writer), Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Dean Fosler (music), Edna Best (producer).
Holmes and Watson find good companionship in a gypsy camp. But they also find kidnapping, attempted murder, and a beautiful girl who gives up her life for Holmes! You know, a typical evening in a gypsy camp…
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