The Return of Sherlock Holmes

About The Return of Sherlock Holmes

In the second series of the widely celebrated ITV detective programme, Dr John Watson finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a crime and mystery series made for ITV1. Its one season of 11 episodes was broadcast from July 1986 to April 1988.

Jeremy Brett stars as Sherlock Holmes, and Edward Hardwicke as Dr John Watson. The series began as a novel.

Shelv files it under private detective, based on short story, whodunit, and literary adaptation. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States.

Sherlock, Martin Chuzzlewit, and The Alienist make useful companions to The Return of Sherlock Holmes, all filed under police procedural and sherlock holmes.