The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Sep 20, 1971

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!

Sep 27, 1971

Max Carrados, the blind detective, solves the case of a bank teller shot at his counter.

Oct 4, 1971

Horace Dorrington solves the mystery of a case of sabotage on a bicycle track.

Oct 11, 1971

Simon Carne devises an ingenious way of keeping the Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds safe from theft.

Oct 18, 1971

Carnacki solves the case of an invisible horse that is haunting a family of the eve of a wedding.

Oct 25, 1971

Horace Dorrington clears up the mystery of the theft of a valuable diamond.

Nov 1, 1971

Dixon Duce helps solve a murder case.

Nov 8, 1971

Jonathan Pride gets involved in a case involving a secret weapon, an eccentric inventor and forged roubles.

Nov 15, 1971

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard solves the murdeer of a respectable man.

Nov 22, 1971

Arhtur Hewitt gets mixed up in a case involving voodoo and the disappearance of a dead body.

Nov 29, 1971

Conman and invesigator Romney Pringkle exposes a swindle and makes a profit.

Dec 2, 1971

Bernard Sutton is called in to help stop a series of jewel robberies.

Dec 9, 1971

Arthur Hewitt and Jonathan Pride band together to find a bank clerk who has disappeared with £ 15,000.

Jan 29, 1973

Polly Burton assists in soving the case of a grl found dead on a seat of an underground train.

Feb 5, 1973

Inspecor Lipinski investigates the theft of a 500 carat diamond.

Feb 12, 1973

Professor Van Dusen, the 'Thinking Machine', boasts that he can think his way out of a prison cell. When he is locked up he is given the chance to prove that he can escape by the power of his mind alone.

Feb 19, 1973

Laxworthy and two friends secure the safety of the plans for the first torpedo to be used by the French navy.

Feb 26, 1973

Valmont has to help break a ring of counterfeiters.

Mar 4, 1973

Lieutenant Holst of Copenhagen has to help a Russian countess who claims her brother-in-law aims to kill her.

Mar 11, 1973

Professor Van Dusen must find out why a young woman had a perfectly healthy finger cut off by the eminent surgeon Prescott.

Mar 19, 1973

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Dagobert Trostler investigates a poison pen case.

Mar 26, 1973

Dr Thorndyke has to decypher a code to stop a plot to assassinate a Russian Grand Duke.

Apr 2, 1973

William Drew of the foreign Office investigates an unusual crime.

Apr 9, 1973

Charles Dallas is led into a strange and sinister adventure in the aftermath of a sensational murder trial.

Apr 16, 1973

Gold disappears from the strongroom of the RMS Oceanic and its purser, Mr Horrocks, tries to discover what has happened.

May 7, 1973

Hagar the Gypsy sets out to prove that Detective Sergeat Grubber is wrong about who killed Mrs Arryford.