🔎 📺 This is the nineteenth episode of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954 TV Series).
It stars: 🕵️♂️ Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes 👨⚕️ Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson 👮 Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade
⚡ Episode Summary:
When Holmes suddenly disappears without explanation, Watson and Lestrade are left baffled and deeply concerned. Is the great detective the victim of foul play, or is his vanishing act part of a larger scheme? The mystery deepens as cryptic clues emerge, leading to a surprising twist only Holmes could orchestrate.
💡 Why Watch This Episode?
✔️ A rare story where Holmes himself becomes the mystery
✔️ Keeps viewers guessing until the clever resolution
✔️ A standout episode showcasing Holmes’ brilliance and daring methods
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It stars: 🕵️♂️ Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes 👨⚕️ Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson 👮 Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade
⚡ Episode Summary:
When Holmes suddenly disappears without explanation, Watson and Lestrade are left baffled and deeply concerned. Is the great detective the victim of foul play, or is his vanishing act part of a larger scheme? The mystery deepens as cryptic clues emerge, leading to a surprising twist only Holmes could orchestrate.
💡 Why Watch This Episode?
✔️ A rare story where Holmes himself becomes the mystery
✔️ Keeps viewers guessing until the clever resolution
✔️ A standout episode showcasing Holmes’ brilliance and daring methods
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👉 Watch the full playlist for all episodes of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954)! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYSxyPafGbnTKAJ16ovG0sQTB5iqXP1ra
👉 Don’t forget to Like 👍, Comment 💬 & Subscribe 🔔 for more vintage TV & mystery classics.
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00:00The End
00:30I don't know why it is
00:58that often the weather seems to match a man's moods, but this day in particular
01:02it had run a perfect parallel to mine.
01:05But at last the storm broke and so did I.
01:08The only way to ease my mind was to turn to action.
01:12Scotland Yard was the perfect place to begin.
01:20Inspector Lestrade, Wilkins, I must see him right away.
01:23I'm very sorry, Doctor. Inspector Lestrade's very busy.
01:25Will you tell him I'm here? I must see him.
01:27I'm very sorry, Doctor, but when Inspector Lestrade's in comfort...
01:30Oh!
01:30Dr. Watson.
01:34Ah, Dr. Watson, I'm very pleased to see you.
01:37Just having a cup of tea.
01:38Lestrade, something's happened to Holmes.
01:40He's disappeared. He's vanished. I haven't seen him for two days.
01:42Well, calm yourself, Dr. Watson. Calm yourself.
01:45Tell him he's disappeared. He may have been kidnapped for all I know.
01:47Oh, kidnapped, eh?
01:48Oh, worse.
01:49Now, look here, Dr. Watson.
01:50Just because you haven't seen him for a couple of days
01:53doesn't necessarily mean to say that he's been kidnapped.
01:54No, right.
01:55Well, if you want any proof, you can have it.
01:57There's no time.
01:57Don't let him with me.
02:00It is positively infuriating to know that something is wrong
02:04and to find a man whom you can't convince.
02:07I don't mind saying that there are times
02:10when I find myself hard put to keep my patience with Inspector Lestrade.
02:13What more evidence do you need?
02:17What man going under his own volition would leave his razor behind?
02:19Oh, he probably has another one.
02:21No, he hasn't.
02:22Come on, I'll show you something else.
02:25Look, his violin out of its case.
02:27Well, what's that got to do with it?
02:28But he'd never leave his violin like that if he thought he'd be gone long.
02:31Treats it like a baby.
02:32Hmm.
02:33And these concert tickets.
02:35We meant to have gone last night.
02:37Look here, Lestrade.
02:38I've been a friend of Holmes' too long
02:39not to realize the brutal truth behind all this.
02:41Well, the evidence certainly does seem to point us...
02:44Now, look.
02:45We've got to track him down as he'd track down somebody else.
02:48You mean use his own methods of deduction?
02:50Exactly.
02:51Now, the odds are that he's disappeared on some case.
02:55So, the best thing we can do is to go through his correspondence
02:57and see who might have employed him.
03:00Oh, look at this.
03:02Bills, bills.
03:05Invertisements, bills.
03:08It'd have to be at the end of everything, wouldn't it?
03:10Ah.
03:10Ah, what have we here?
03:13The chap wants Holmes to investigate his neighbor.
03:14He says a lot of people go into the house and nobody ever comes out.
03:17What do you make of that?
03:19Hmm.
03:19Well, uh...
03:20Now, look.
03:20You see, that's a left-handed writer.
03:22And by the feel of the paper, I'd say he was in, uh, pretty good circumstances.
03:26Yes, well, uh...
03:27Well, uh, attention to details.
03:29That's the secret of Holmes' success.
03:32You see, we already know something about the writer before we meet him.
03:35Yes, there's only one thing, though.
03:37Hmm?
03:38Sherlock Holmes disappeared and said nothing to do with him.
03:40Oh, why?
03:41This letter's dated two years ago.
03:43What?
03:44Oh, yes.
03:47So, so it is.
03:50Well, where else would he keep his correspondence?
03:53Oh, anywhere on the chandelier, if it wasn't too much effort to get up there.
03:57Well, let's have a look around.
03:58Well, going through Holmes is thing to take a month.
04:01No, no.
04:02We'd best get another approach.
04:03Well, have you any ideas?
04:05Wait.
04:10Dear sir, please call upon the undersigned
04:13at the earliest convenience on a matter of extreme urgency.
04:17Signed, John Smithson,
04:19ye quaint old curiosity shop,
04:227th Bachelor Lane.
04:23It's dated three days ago.
04:25You know, this might be it.
04:26You're right, it is.
04:28Come on, Lestrade.
04:28Holmes' life may depend on our speed.
04:43Sinister-looking place.
04:44Well, it looks just like any other old curiosity shop to me.
04:47You think so?
04:48Then why was this Smithson so keen to get Holmes here, eh?
04:53Yeah, it's interesting.
04:54What do you mean all this stuff in the window?
04:56I mean the stuff that isn't in the window.
05:00Look, I don't understand you, Dr. Watson.
05:02What do you mean?
05:03Well, it's perfectly obvious, isn't it?
05:05No.
05:07Oh, isn't it?
05:08Well, well, we won't get anywhere standing here.
05:10Come on.
05:11Wait a minute, Dr. Watson.
05:12I still don't know what you mean
05:14by all this stuff that isn't in the window.
05:16Come along, Lestrade.
05:17Good afternoon, gentlemen.
05:36Good afternoon.
05:37You, I presume, are the proprietor, John Smithson.
05:40Yes, yes, that is correct, sir.
05:42That is correct.
05:43Well, I'm Dr. Watson, and this is Inspector Lestrade.
05:46We've gone to inquire about Sherlock Holmes.
05:48Sherlock Holmes?
05:50Yes, a tall fellow, thin.
05:55Where's the deer-stalking cab?
05:57I'm afraid I've never met the gentleman now.
06:00But you wrote him a letter
06:01saying you wish to see him
06:03on a matter of extreme urgency.
06:05You must be mistaken, sir.
06:07Well, take a look at this letter.
06:09Is that your handwriting?
06:19Oh, it isn't anything like my handwriting.
06:21Here, I'll tell you what my handwriting is like.
06:29Do you notice any resemblance between the two?
06:34Well, well, well, no.
06:36Well, then, who could have written it?
06:37I couldn't say.
06:39Perhaps a practical joke.
06:40At any rate, all is well here,
06:42and I'm fortunately in no need of help.
06:46Oh.
06:48Well, do you mind if we browse around a bit?
06:51No, browse, browse indeed, gentlemen.
06:53I like to think of my shop as an oasis
06:55of tranquility in life's busy thoroughfare.
07:07What are you doing?
07:12I'm looking for evidence that Holmes was here.
07:15Well, you heard what he said.
07:16Yes, yes, I don't believe a word of that.
07:18There's something about him.
07:20Don't trust him.
07:21It's as if I'd seen him before somewhere.
07:23Well, that's not very scientific.
07:25No, perhaps not.
07:26But I'd like to have a look around anyway.
07:27I'll be right back.
07:57Oh, I do beg your pardon.
08:02Quite all right.
08:02Oh, how clumsy of me.
08:04No, not at all.
08:04It was all my fault.
08:05I wasn't looking where I was going.
08:07Of course, please.
08:08Not at all.
08:09Excuse me.
08:12Oh, charming.
08:14Charming.
08:16Yes, all right.
08:17It's business.
08:17I don't know.
08:23I must remind myself to read that again sometime.
08:27What's this?
08:28Proper deportment of young ladies and polite society.
08:32A fabulous title.
08:33I'm afraid that that book is not for sale.
08:36What do you mean, not for sale?
08:37I understand everything in this shop is for sale.
08:39Yes, everything except the books on that shelf, sir.
08:42And now the shop is closing.
08:44Nearly.
08:45Two o'clock in the afternoon.
08:46Yes, for repairs.
08:47I have the decorators coming in.
08:49I'm afraid I must ask you to leave, young man.
08:56Cunning old rascal.
08:57Do you see how he tried to get rid of us, Lestrade?
08:59Oh, perhaps he has got some repairs to be done.
09:01Ah, nonsense.
09:02I insist on buying that book.
09:09I've been looking for it for years.
09:13The proper deportment of young ladies into polite society.
09:17Precisely.
09:18I've been meaning to read that since I was a lad.
09:20Very well, young man.
09:32One sitting, please.
09:44Go on, Lestrade.
09:49Hello.
09:50Excuse me, Governor.
09:51Not at all.
09:58There's something about that, Smithson, I don't like.
10:02Look, this isn't the book I bought.
10:04It's much smaller.
10:09Safari through darkest Africa.
10:11Why, but champ's nothing but a crook.
10:14Oh, this is much more interesting than that other one.
10:17Look here.
10:18You and I are going straight on back in.
10:20Now, listen.
10:21While I keep him in conversation, you skite around a bit.
10:23Well, I suspect we're up to something.
10:25Oh, of course he won't.
10:26Holmes and I did this in that red-headed league affair.
10:28Worked perfectly.
10:29Come on.
10:32You've sold me the wrong book.
10:40My dear sir, I...
10:41Deliberately, if you ask me.
10:42But I assure you, Safari through darkest...
10:44This is the book I wanted.
10:45No, that's not for sale.
10:47That happens to be the first edition.
10:48Of which there are only three coffees in existence.
10:50Proper deportment of young ladies in polite society.
10:52Now, that's the book I bought, and that's the book I...
10:54Dr. Watson.
10:57Holmes is closed.
10:58I found them in an old pilot's chest.
11:02Oh, good lord.
11:08With bloodstains.
11:10You feet!
11:11What have you done with him?
11:12You're under the arrest, sir.
11:13And I warn you, anything you say will be taken down,
11:15or maybe you...
11:16Go stop him!
11:17Don't let him get away!
11:18Oh, no, you don't!
11:19Watson!
11:20The strain!
11:20You idiots!
11:21Get out of the way!
11:22He's gone with the message.
11:31Who's gone with what message?
11:32An escaped convict with the message that woman left for him in the book.
11:35And it won't be easy to find him now that you two gentlemen have completely ruined my beautifully laid little trap.
11:40Naturally, I left my razor at home.
11:42I hardly needed it here, didn't I?
11:44The floodstains, Holmes.
11:47Red ink's a strain.
11:48I've been helping Elle Smithson make up his ledgers.
11:50And this escaped convict, who is he?
11:54John Carson.
11:55I expect you've had a report on him.
11:57Carson?
11:59Why, he got a life sentence for killing a man with a cleaver.
12:01That's him.
12:02He was using this shop as a message center,
12:04planting and picking up messages here from that book that you were so intent on buying.
12:09Oh, yeah.
12:11Proper deportment for young ladies in polite society.
12:14Hmm.
12:16Smithson recognized him when he first came in.
12:18It seems that Carson was once employed here.
12:20But the old gentleman was afraid to go to the police.
12:24Why?
12:24Because Carson threatened to kill him if he did.
12:27So he sent for me instead.
12:29Hence my little disguise.
12:32You were waiting to nab Carson when he came in here for a message.
12:35Exactly.
12:36Oh, and we ruined it all.
12:39Oh, that's all right, Watson.
12:40The best laid plans of mice and men, you know.
12:43However, if we can trace the girl, then I...
12:45That'll be as hard as tracing Carson himself.
12:49Oh, I don't think it'd be all that difficult.
12:53It seems the good doctor has something up his sleeve.
12:56Hmm.
12:57Only the name and address where the girl works.
13:00Well, how the deuce do you know that?
13:04Well, when I knocked her handbag out of her hand,
13:06I found a piece of paper,
13:08and on it was her hours of work and salary due to her.
13:13With the letterhead of the shop on the paper?
13:16Well done, Watson.
13:17Oh, nothing really.
13:19Pierre's Breast Shop, 17 Cottington Street.
13:22You know, I'd say that girl had the look of a manicure about her.
13:27Don't you agree?
13:30Well, you know what?
13:31I'm almost afraid not to.
13:44And now, mesdames and messieurs,
13:46you will see the supreme creation of Pierre with me, myself.
13:52Your niece, monsieur.
13:54She will find his ensemble irresistible.
13:57You did say your niece, mister.
13:59Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:01Returning for the holidays from school in Switzerland, sir.
14:04Yeah.
14:05Oh, it's exquisite, no?
14:09Such cemetery, such subtle lines.
14:22That's a girl we're looking for.
14:29Observe how it hints,
14:33but with such discreation.
14:35Oh, la jeunesse, like youth.
14:38I say, it's a bit daring, isn't it?
14:40But it's a daring image, monsieur,
14:42and knows the 20th century.
14:43I wonder, sir,
14:51if I might have a word with a young lady in private.
14:54Part, part.
14:55Officially, monsieur.
14:57I'm Inspector Lestrade, the cutler guard.
14:59Part, part.
14:59Part.
15:01Stop her, stop her!
15:03It really isn't any use, you know,
15:22even if you ran away.
15:33Well, I do not understand.
15:44Never before I was one of my girls acted so.
15:51Would you mind telling me where he's hiding now, miss?
15:53I don't know.
15:55I swear I don't.
15:56And yet you left a message for him.
15:58A gentleman friend gave me the message
15:59and told me to leave it in the book.
16:00Probably a pal of Carson's,
16:03if she's telling the truth.
16:05What was in the message?
16:08There was just a name and an address.
16:12I see.
16:12And what was the name?
16:14Jeremiah Westlake.
16:16I forget the address.
16:18Jeremiah Westlake.
16:20There was once a judge called Jeremiah Westlake.
16:23He retired several years ago.
16:24Yes, and I think we'll discover
16:26that Jeremiah Westlake was the judge
16:28who gave Carson his life sentence.
16:31And now Carson is looking for him.
16:33And now Carson is looking for him.
16:51Mr. Holmes, Dr. Watson, and Inspector Lestrade.
16:54Who's she talking to?
17:02Well, what do you want?
17:03Court's now in session.
17:05State your case.
17:08Speak up, speak up, Mr. Holmes.
17:11Or has the cat got your tongue?
17:16Judge Westlake, I presume?
17:17Former Judge Westlake.
17:21Ned Sherlock Holmes.
17:23Ever hear of him, little male?
17:25No, no, no.
17:26You're confusing him with the other Sherlock Holmes.
17:29The famous pastry chef.
17:31Oh, I never eat pastry.
17:33Dissagrees with me.
17:34Of course, there's still another Sherlock Holmes.
17:38The third one.
17:40The famous detective.
17:42Oh, that one.
17:44Well, young man, say your piece.
17:46Court adjourned in exactly one minute.
17:50Ten years ago, you sentenced a man called John Carson
17:53to a term of life imprisonment for murder.
17:56Carson?
17:57Carson?
17:58G'day, Miriam.
18:00That'd be the Butcher Cleaver case.
18:03Murdered a man with it.
18:05Oh, yes.
18:07Unpleasant chap, Carson, if I remember correctly.
18:11Well, Mr. Holmes.
18:12When you sentenced him, he swore to kill you.
18:16Did he?
18:17Well, what, damn it.
18:19They all do.
18:21Routine.
18:22Well, he's just escaped from prison
18:24and has learned your address.
18:26Dossless.
18:28Bluff.
18:29Shirt bluff.
18:30Eh, Miriam?
18:31They all bluff, young man.
18:33I wouldn't sleep a wink
18:34if I believed everything they swore to do to the judge.
18:37Sleep like that, since you are worse.
18:39In bed at ten and up at six.
18:44This man represents a very real threat, sir.
18:48That's all.
18:50Court adjourned, see that, dear.
18:55And that gentleman needs postpone indefinitely.
18:59Do forgive us, our little whimsy gentleman.
19:09How do you know?
19:10They're our children, really.
19:12We have no others, you see.
19:13It's a delightful hobby, Mrs. Wesley.
19:16About this man, Carson, sir.
19:18With your permission, I'd like to place a guard in the house.
19:20Until we apprehend him, of course.
19:22Oh, dear me, no.
19:23Tumbling heaven knows what's all over the place.
19:26I wouldn't hear of it, Inspector.
19:28We appreciate it, though.
19:31Speaking as a medical man, sir,
19:32knowing this murderous mentality,
19:34I must advise you to...
19:35Sorry, Doctor,
19:36but we can't get into idle threats.
19:38One wouldn't have any law if we did.
19:40Won't you gentlemen join us for tea?
19:42Thank you, Mrs. Westlake,
19:43but perhaps another time.
19:46No, you mustn't take these things so seriously.
19:51Good day, Mrs. Westlake, and thank you.
19:53Good day, Mr. Holmes.
19:54Do come again sometime.
19:56You must say I'll find some duty.
19:58With pleasure.
19:59All the same, sir,
20:00I'm going to station my man outside the house.
20:03Well, all right,
20:04but tell them not to step on my petunias.
20:15He says he's got a message for the judge, sir.
20:18I'm Westlake, my man.
20:20Here you are, Governor.
20:24Dear judge,
20:27I'm one of your old court attendants.
20:33I'm on me deathbed,
20:34and I've got to make out me will
20:36for me little granddaughter.
20:38Will you come and help me
20:39and oblige
20:40John Casket,
20:4267 Clifton Road?
20:44Ever have a court attendant
20:45called John Casket, sir?
20:47Well, it's hard to say.
20:48I've had so many court attendants.
20:50Who gave you this note?
20:52Bloke on the street, sir.
20:53But he said to tell the judge
20:54he was in bed down.
20:56What did he look like?
20:57Oh, about this hour, sir.
20:59Tim face.
21:00Seedy looking,
21:01if you know what I mean.
21:02Hmm, that's personal, all right.
21:04What's he pay you?
21:05A couple of bobs, sir.
21:07Oh, there you are, sir.
21:08Just the sort of thing
21:09to send you off
21:10in an errand of mercy
21:11to your death.
21:12Dear me,
21:12I never cease to marvel
21:13at the duplicity
21:15of human nature.
21:16Can I get the two, Bob, sir?
21:18Hmm?
21:18Oh, yes, yes.
21:19Oh, thank you, Conor.
21:23Well, Holmes, we've got them.
21:2567 Clifton Road?
21:27Yes.
21:27Wilkins.
21:28Yes, sir.
21:29Get the men together.
21:29We're going to Clifton Road.
21:31Not so fast, Lestrade.
21:33This might be a ruse.
21:34Of course it's a ruse.
21:36Of another kind.
21:37To get you to abandon
21:38the police cord
21:39and round the house.
21:40Oh, I see what you mean.
21:43Oh, well, if that's his idea,
21:45he's in for a surprise.
21:46I'm going to keep
21:47the cordon here.
21:48Good idea, Mr. Hicks.
21:49Now, don't you worry, sir.
21:51Why, not the least bit alarmed, sir.
21:53I'm going to have my tea.
22:04Don't budge from here.
22:05If you let anyone in this house,
22:06I'll have you skimmed.
22:07Yes, sir.
22:08Come on.
22:10Oh, well, now have him either way.
22:36At Clifton Road
22:37or when he tries to break
22:38into the judge's house.
22:41Lestrade, who did that
22:42messenger describe?
22:44Carson, of course.
22:45And who else?
22:47You mean, who else?
22:49Himself.
22:50He described himself, Lestrade.
22:52Cappy, turn around
22:52and go back to the house
22:53at once.
22:54As fast as you can.
22:56At last, I understood
22:57the cause for Holmes' concern.
22:59We had gone off
23:01and left the killer
23:02with the very man
23:03he'd sworn to kill.
23:05John Carson wasn't the kind
23:07of man to miss
23:07an opportunity like this.
23:09He was there
23:10and we were not.
23:12There was nothing left
23:13for us to do but hope.
23:15And every passing second
23:17was against us.
23:18He was suggests
23:32aasshole,
23:35aasshole,
23:37aasshole,
23:38aasshole,
23:39aasshole...
23:40can't go along.
23:41...
23:41You're all right, sir.
23:42Mirabelle.
23:43Mirabelle.
23:44Mirabelle.
23:45She's coming around, sir.
23:46The maid's all right.
23:47Mrs. West Day.
23:48No, no.
23:49Not too serious.
23:50I'm suffering from shock.
23:51It's all right, dear.
23:52It's all over now.
23:53Jeremiah.
23:54Jeremiah, are you all right?
23:55Yes, dear.
23:56Oh.
23:57Oh, dear...
24:14Our poor children.
24:17I don't think they're damaged, dear.
24:21Sometimes I forget they're not real.
24:31Of course we're real. We're as real as any children.
24:38You were right about John Carson, Mr. Holmes.
24:41You were very right. Are you my wife?
24:44Not at all, sir. Not at all.
24:46Yes, but I must do something to repay you.
24:48I'll teach you to be a puppeteer.
24:52A puppeteer?
24:54Yes, you'll love it. Greatest relaxation in the world.
24:57Teaches you to forget me like John Carson.
25:00Now, here. You hold the thing like this.
25:04And with this string, you move ahead.
25:07And with this, you move the feet.
25:09You teach your voice up a little.
25:14Thank you, Mr. Holmes.
25:16Pretty good thinking. Not bad, anyway.
25:19Ha, ha, ha, ha!
25:20Ha, ha, ha, ha!
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