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The rivals of Sherlock Holmes. Set 1 [videorecording (DVD)].

Acorn Media, c2009.

[videorecording (DVD)].

4 videodiscs (ca. 654 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Contains all 13 episodes from the first season of the British mystery series, originally broadcast on Thames Television in 1971, plus bonus features on 4 discs.

Special features: Profiles of the rival detectives and their creators.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Volume 1. Episode 1. Message from the deep sea -- Episode 2. Missing witness sensation -- Episode 3. Affair of the Avalanche Bicycle & Tyre Co. Ltd. -- Episode 4. Duchess of Wiltshire's diamonds -- Volume 2. Episode 5. Horse of the invisible -- Episode 6. Case of the mirror of Portugal -- Episode 7. Madame Sara -- Volume 3. Episode 8. Case of the Dixon Torpedo -- Episode 9. Woman in the big hat -- Episode 10. Affair of the tortoise -- Volume 4. Episode 11. Assyrian rejuvenator -- Episode 12. Ripening rubies -- Episode 13. Case of Laker, absconded.

Freemantle Media Enterprises ; a Thames Television production ; produced by Robert Love and Jonathan Alwyn ; stories by R. Austin Freeman, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Morrison, Guy Boothby, William Hope Hodgson, L.T. Meade, Robert Eustace, Baroness Orczy, Clifford Ashdown, Max Pemberton ; dramatized by Philip Mackie, Julian Bond, Anthony Stevens, Stuart Hood, Alan Cooke, Bill Craig, Anthony Skene ; directed by James Goddard, Jonathan Alwyn, Kim Mills, Alan Cooke, Mike Vardy, Piers Haggard, Bill Bain.

John Neville, Robert Stephens, Peter Vaughan, Roy Dotrice, Donald Pleasence, John Fraser, Ronald Hines, Elvi Hale, Peter Barkworth, Donald Sinden, Robert Lang, and Jeremy Irons.

"Victorian London was a boon for crooks--and a bane for Scotland Yard whose job it was to thwart crime. In the pages of fiction the citizens of the capital often turned to private sleuths for redress. But Sherlock Holmes was not the only detective in town. Contemporary writers created an impressive cast of investigators both amateur and professional as colorful as the criminals they set out to catch. Some of the detectives in this classic British series work with the police. Others achieve success in spite of them. And a few even fall under official suspicion themselves. Yet all pit their wits against the best that London's underworld has to offer in 13 finely crafted mysteries delivered by Britain's top character actors. Stars include Peter Vaughan (The Remains of the Day) John Neville (The First Churchills) Donald Sinden (Two's Company) Donald Pleasence (Halloween) and Jeremy Irons (Brideshead Revisited) in his first screen appearance."--Container.

Mystery television programs.

Television crime shows.

Television programs -- Great Britain.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Neville, John, 1925-

Stephens, Robert, 1931-1995.

Vaughan, Peter, 1923-2016

Dotrice, Roy, 1925-

Sinden, Donald.

Pleasence, Donald.

Irons, Jeremy, 1948-

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