16+Season 5
Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes.
Synopsis
Watch Sherlock Holmes (1984) Season 5 online on iFILM — six Granada mysteries filmed in 1991 from Conan Doyle's collection The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke carry this run with no feature-length entries; it's one case per episode again.
Watson gets more to do this time. He opens the season himself, running into the vanished Lady Frances Carfax up in the Lake District before Holmes ever arrives. From there: a shooting at Thor Bridge that frames an innocent governess, a ruined racehorse owner faking madness at Shoscombe, a brutal killing in the Boscombe Valley, and the dangerous Baron Gruner, whose engagement Holmes is hired to break. The closer is the oddest of the lot — a professor caught creeping beneath his own windows after dark.
Season 5 sits near the show's late years, and the mood runs darker than the early episodes: fewer drawing-room riddles, more dead ends in human nature. Purists who want the canonical Holmes hold this batch close. All episodes stream on iFILM.
6 episodes
S5·E1The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
Watson, on holiday in the Lake District, meets the enigmatic Lady Frances Carfax, who is being haunted by the ghost of a horseman. Holmes decides to come up to join Watson, but by the time he arrives Lady Frances has vanished without trace. Holmes investigates and becomes very curious about the ghost.
S5·E2The Problem of Thor Bridge
Maria Gibson, the wife of a gold-mining millionaire, is found shot dead at their country house. Gibson asks Holmes to find his wife's killer and thus to clear the name of his children's governess, Miss Dunbar, who has been charged with the crime. Is Gibson acting as a kindly employer, and what are the hidden depths of the case?
S5·E3Shoscombe Old Place
Sir Robert Norberton stakes a huge amount (much of it borrrowed) on his horse Shoscombe Prince winning a race. His trainer thinks Sir Robert has gone mad and consults Holmes. Then one of the many creditors disappears and human bone is found in a furnace...
S5·E4The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Alice Turner sends for Holmes when her lifelong friend farmer William McCarthy is killed and police suspicion falls on his son, James. James McCarthy admits quarrelling with his father, but he will not explain what their argument was about.
S5·E5The Illustrious Client
Colonel James Damery calls on Holmes when the rich and beautiful Miss Violet Merville announces her engagement to Baron Gruner, a dangerous Austrian. Gruner has persuaded Violet that he is not a killer, and Holmes has to establish the truth and foil the powerful baron.
S5·E6The Creeping Man
The daughter of scientist Professor Presbury sees her father's face at her second-storey window; Holmes connects this with recent zoo thefts.
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