🔎 📺 This is the twentieth 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:
A women’s suffrage group becomes entangled in danger when one of its members is killed by a bomb. The tragedy shocks London, and suspicion falls on political rivals as well as members of the movement itself. Holmes investigates, uncovering that the “careless suffragette” may not have been careless at all—someone wanted her silenced.
💡 Why Watch This Episode?
✔️ A bold story mixing social issues with classic detective intrigue
✔️ Holmes unravels a mystery where politics, activism, and crime collide
✔️ A gripping blend of suspense and period atmosphere in 1950s television
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It stars: 🕵️♂️ Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes 👨⚕️ Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson 👮 Archie Duncan as Inspector Lestrade
⚡ Episode Summary:
A women’s suffrage group becomes entangled in danger when one of its members is killed by a bomb. The tragedy shocks London, and suspicion falls on political rivals as well as members of the movement itself. Holmes investigates, uncovering that the “careless suffragette” may not have been careless at all—someone wanted her silenced.
💡 Why Watch This Episode?
✔️ A bold story mixing social issues with classic detective intrigue
✔️ Holmes unravels a mystery where politics, activism, and crime collide
✔️ A gripping blend of suspense and period atmosphere in 1950s television
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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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#sherlockholmes #CarelessSuffragette #TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes #1954TVSeries #ClassicTV #RonaldHoward #DrWatson #InspectorLestrade #vintagemystery #detectivedrama #GoldenAgeTelevision
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01:00There's been an accident at the house
01:05Please, miss, please give me the key so I can unlock you
01:09Be sensible, Doreen
01:11This nonsense is getting you nowhere
01:13I demand to be arrested
01:14Now, just what's going on here?
01:17This young lady, Doctor
01:18Oh, hello, Miss Strong
01:19Oh, good day, Wiggin
01:20She's a suffra...
01:22Suffragette
01:23We demand that women be given the right to vote
01:26Yes, yes, yes
01:28She and some other suffragettes
01:30Invaded the home of the Honourable Chauncey Pimpleton
01:33And started a demonstration
01:34Pimpleton? Why, he's a Member of Parliament
01:36Lives just round the corner
01:37That's him, sir
01:39We were getting them to move on
01:40And this young lady broke loose and chained herself here, sir
01:43But why did you do it, Miss?
01:46Because we want equal rights for women
01:48That's why
01:49Yes, but I don't see how chaining herself to iron railings is going to obtain for you
01:53You wouldn't understand
01:54You're a man
01:55She probably wants to wear trousers, too
01:58If I wanted to, I would
02:02Mr. Holmes, can you get her loose?
02:05She slipped the key of the handcuffs down her
02:07We're waiting for a hacksaw now, sir
02:10That's right, a hacksaw
02:12Hack me to pieces while you're at it
02:14I'm only a woman
02:15I believe I can help you
02:17I don't want any help
02:19She wants to vote
02:20Now go on home and cook your old man his supper
02:23No arrest me, I insist upon it
02:29I'll leave her in your hands, if I may, Mr. Holmes
02:32Coward!
02:34You'd arrest me if I was a man
02:36Mr. Holmes, may we impose upon you?
02:38I somehow have the impression you already have
02:41Won't you come up?
02:49Let me introduce ourselves
02:57This is my fiancee, Miss Dorian Meredith
02:59Let me introduce ourselves.
03:10This is my fiancee, Miss Doreen Meredith.
03:12First Secretary for Give the Women the Vogue Weeks.
03:14I'm delighted to meet you, Miss Meredith.
03:16And I'm Henry Travers, personal secretary to Mr. Pimpleton.
03:20Oh yes, yes.
03:21I seem to remember that it was Mr. Pimpleton who led the attack on the suffragette bill
03:26in the house the other day when it was defeated.
03:29And very, very resoundingly defeated.
03:32Yes, that old stuffed shirt.
03:35He'll be sorry.
03:36I wish you'd get out of this Give Women the Vote League, Doreen.
03:39It's dangerous.
03:43Yes, I can see that it has its inconveniences, Mr. Travers.
03:46But I don't really believe that it's dangerous.
03:49Would you call bombs dangerous, Mr. Holmes?
03:52Good heavens, are they using bombs now?
03:55Oh, just a teeny one.
03:57Boris and I made it to blow up a lion.
04:00My dear young lady, you don't blow up a lion.
04:03You shoot it.
04:05Who is Boris, an anarchist?
04:09An anarchist.
04:10He's an old deer who wouldn't hurt a fly.
04:13Throwing up lions, anarchists.
04:16Sometimes I don't know where modern England's going.
04:20Well, perhaps Miss Meredith might be good enough to indicate that direction for us.
04:24Well, it all began at the meeting of the Give Women the Vote League.
04:28Miss Agatha Axton, our president, was presiding.
04:32Quiet, ladies, quiet.
04:37I call this meeting of the council in order to consider our next step in view of the defeat
04:44we suffered last week.
04:45As you know, the honorable, honorable, even if he is my cousin.
04:56Well, anyway, Chauncey Pimpleton rallied the anti-women forces in parliament and defeated our bill
05:04by the narrow margin of 347 to 1.
05:11Boo!
05:12Down, Pimpleton!
05:13Boo!
05:13Down, Pimpleton!
05:14Boo!
05:15We've got to do something, ladies.
05:17We're not making enough noise in the world.
05:21What would Joan of Arc do?
05:26What would Catherine of Russia do?
05:28They would attack.
05:30They would blow up something.
05:32Blow up something?
05:33How do you do that?
05:35I don't know, but they would do it.
05:38Don't bombs blow up things?
05:40I think they do.
05:42Let's buy a bomb.
05:43Where can you buy one?
05:44I've never heard of a bomb, Sharpe.
05:46We could make one.
05:48I'll make one.
05:50Can you?
05:52I don't know.
05:53I've never tried.
05:55I'll get a book.
05:57Good.
05:58But, um, what shall we explode?
06:02Let's explode a lion.
06:04Wonderful.
06:05We'll explode a lion.
06:07A very small one, of course.
06:11Well, anyway, I didn't know how to make a bomb.
06:14So I...
06:15So she advertised in the Times,
06:17wanted a person who knows how to make a bomb.
06:20Oh, yes, yes.
06:22Dr. Watson and I read the advertisement.
06:24We tried to decipher it under the impression that it was a code.
06:27Never occurred to us for a moment that it meant what it said.
06:30Well, anyway, Boris answered it.
06:33Yes.
06:34That's right.
06:35I am the person who makes a bomb.
06:36Sit down.
06:37Please, it is you advertised.
06:38Yes, it's me.
06:39Uh, I'm so glad you answered, Mr. Mr.
06:40Turgoff.
06:41Boris Turgoff.
06:42Do you really know how to make a bomb, Mr. Turgoff?
06:46Tch!
06:47Tch!
06:48All over the world, I have made bombs.
06:49Big ones.
06:50And little ones.
06:51Bombs that go...
06:53And bombs that go...
06:54Tch!
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07:45all i believe in is nothing oh excuse me that sounded funny have you the ingredients for the
07:55bomb please oh well i'm afraid you'll think me an awful amateur but i don't know what
08:02ingredients go into a bomb is nothing we will go to the chemist and buy them
08:15there you are sir everything you ordered visceral toluene nitrate and sulfuric acid oh yes and
08:34yes ma'am be careful though you could make a bomb with what you have here
08:45so good law that's all they can make with a stud a bomb
09:15it's clever no a green croquet ball who would suspect a green croquet ball and i'm sure i
09:29wouldn't like this it unscrews in half are you sure it'll work with a trigger yes with no trigger no
09:38a trigger i must put in have you bought some wire please oh no i'm afraid i forgot
09:48oh i would a hair can be all right is possible
09:52oh
10:07guess what this is croquet ball of course no it isn't here let's put it back into the garden
10:12the garden but darling
10:20well fortunately boris made the wrong formula it was only a small explosion and so you made another bomb
10:27out of a croquet ball oh yes we went to work on it right away where is it yes doreen good lord get get it
10:36away from her homes well it won't go off unless it's hit very hard might i see it miss meredith
10:44take care my dear chap that's no croquet ball you know that's precisely what it is watson just a very
10:49ordinary croquet ball with a crest on it why that's mr pimbleton's favorite croquet ball from his garden set
10:56and the crest the family's his uncle's earl of clareborough his favorite croquet ball did you say mr
11:01travers does he always use the green one always he he plays every afternoon at five he's as regular
11:08as the clock then if that's his croquet ball then someone must have exactly watson well then he'll go and
11:16play croquet with a bomb what time is it now hmm five o'clock he only lives just around the corner if
11:28he's as punctual as mr travers says he is
11:30he was standing here when it happened it was his first swing at it and that's the first time in
11:57the history of scotland yard a man's been killed that way oh really straight was there anyone
12:00else with him at the time fortunately no mr pimpleton had invented a game where he played alone
12:07he always won that way
12:11tell me that ball homes might be another bomb oh well we'll soon know won't be watson
12:17any other leads of strain well he received a delegation here in the garden oh yes yes i seem
12:23to have heard something about that yes a girl named doreen meredith presented him with a suffragette's
12:28petition sorry meredith yeah lovely name yes he's rather lestrade do you believe the ladies blew him up
12:36because he defeated their petition in the house yeah let me have a go at this well you know these
12:42suffragettes they're capable of anything these workers aren't in line you know no it's not that
12:47the strength a swing is wrong look but nevertheless bombing seems a bit drastic even for suffragettes
12:55oh so is this business of their wanting a vote well why not give them the vote they couldn't do any
12:59worse with it than we have oh hello sir uh this is mr travers mr pimpleton's private secretary mr
13:06holmes dr watson oh i've already heard mr travers you've already watched oh i've already seen mr
13:12holmes down from the window i understand that mr pimpleton was the heir of the old heir of clareboro
13:17yes tell me who is next in line to the title well possibly i am i i'm a remote cousin of the earls
13:25yes i understand that you were in the garden with mr pimpleton when the delegation from the
13:29suffragette movement called on him yes i was interesting do you play croquet mr travers no i prefer
13:37lawn tennis quite so quite so but you really ought to try croquet you know under normal circumstances
13:43it's a fascinating and completely harmless game
13:48from the pimpleton home suggested a stroll in hyde park i suspected what he hoped to find there
13:59here in hyde park where vast multitudes of people can gather to hear us under the banner of free speech
14:07i call on the women of england to demand equal rights with men
14:13we cook we sew we scrub why shouldn't we vote
14:21throughout the ages women have been the pawns of men
14:27men of england hold your ground keep women where they belong in the kitchen
14:32women of england keep out of the kitchen give them the vote now and in five years time
14:40they'll be running the country sir i ask you are women played sir i ask you are they capable of voting
14:49i don't speak english
15:03haven't you got anything better to do you you here now don't you talk to me like that no rioting
15:10police or i'll have to ask you to move along i was moving along anyway
15:14i'm very particular whom i speak next to
15:22huh free speech you say something men don't like they tell you to move on
15:26well of course miss meredith like all profits you're ahead of your times
15:29uh without honor in your own country oh we suppose we'd like to ask you a few questions about boris
15:37turgov oh poor boris he'll never forgive me for getting him in this fix
15:41he's so gentle really
15:54is who there
16:05sherlock holmes you want what i'd like to have a word with you mr turgor
16:11this is my good friend dr watson i'm told you manufacture bombs mr turgov all kinds
16:29long fuse short fuse did you make only one bomb for miss meredith
16:35oh you know of that one well two bombs i make for her but one her young man sets off accidentally
16:46he says do you know where this other bomb blew up yes in mr pimpleton's garden
16:54not the first time that the turgov bomb goes off in the wrong place
16:58can you explain how the bomb became substituted for the croquet ball no i do not go inside the house
17:08i wait outside then the police come and when the police come turgov goes always without exception
17:20i see miss meredith tells me that you sent her to someone who makes little bags in which to carry
17:26bombs yes a friend of mine i have who makes bomb bags who is he and where does he live a greek
17:35named chen ten young he lives in soho 22 flower street a greek name chen ten young he says he's a
17:45greek am i to call him a liar thank you very much mr turgov come watson
17:56mr turgov i wouldn't manufacture any more bombs if i were you scotland yard's looking for you
18:12what no more bombs what am i to make then paper bags filled with air maybe
18:19paper bags
18:35now where home well now a visit to mr chen ten young and then a bit of research at the college
18:40of heralds college of heralds you mean where they keep all the records of the title family precisely
18:44this case started with the theory that women would get the vote and i believe that one day
18:48they will oh nonsense and the solution of the crime lies in the theory you mean some hidden
18:54factor we may have overlooked well some subtle factor watson like a bomb
19:14is
19:19oh dr watson isn't there a wonderful day and you look very pleased with yourself i am holmes i am
19:27i'm going to give you a sample of scotland yard at work no magnifying glasses just plain ordinary police
19:35routine excuse me dr watson
19:38send him in wilkins very good sir send who it all the people connected with this bond business
19:49one tax movie you sit here please miss meredith will you sit over there mr tugel
19:55This, Mr. Holmes, is Miss Doreen Meredith,
20:02the young lady who presented the suffragette's petition
20:04to Mr. Pimpleton.
20:06We found set up in her kitchen a laboratory.
20:09She's been making bombs.
20:11I do not deny it.
20:12I told you we were going to blow up a lion.
20:14A lion?
20:15Oh, come now, Miss Meredith.
20:19We were also able to nab her confederate,
20:22this man, Boris Turgot.
20:25An anarchist.
20:26He makes bombs, too.
20:28The Turgot bomb, it is famous.
20:31Well, send in Chen Tenyang, will you?
20:34Very good, sir.
20:36Chen Tenyang is a naturalized Greek
20:38born in Brazil of Chinese parents.
20:41He makes little bags for carrying bombs.
20:46Fascinating occupation.
20:52Ah, Chen.
20:53Tell me, Chen.
20:54Did this young lady order a bag from you?
20:57Yes, mister.
20:58Hmm.
21:03Did you make this bag?
21:05Yes, mister.
21:06Five shillings and six pounds.
21:08That is hope, but on price.
21:10I see.
21:11Well, there it is, Holmes.
21:13There you are.
21:14An open and shut case.
21:17Miss Meredith killed Pimpleton because he was anti-suffragette.
21:20Ingenious, Lestrade.
21:22Really quite ingenious.
21:24You know there's only one thing wrong with it.
21:27What?
21:28Neither Miss Meredith nor Mr. Torgoff are guilty.
21:30Oh, I didn't expect you to agree with me.
21:32You never have.
21:33Well, not always, Lestrade, but sometimes, you know, sometimes.
21:36However, in this case, the real murderer killed Pimpleton for one reason, and one reason only.
21:45To be next in line to the title of the Earl of Clareboro.
21:49Well, who is next in line?
21:52Look here, Mr. Holmes, you trying to imply that I...
21:54Miss Meredith, after it was decided at your suffragette meeting to blow up a lion, who invited you to Mr. Pimpleton's house?
22:02Miss Meredith, why, uh, why, Agatha, we had to decide about the lion.
22:07Did you carry the bomb?
22:09Yes, in the bomb bag.
22:11Where?
22:14Wait a minute.
22:16This gentleman had access to it, too.
22:19Together with this lady.
22:22What does that mean?
22:25It's an intriguing title, Clareboro.
22:27First created in 1417, it has an unusual clause in its charter.
22:34Once, and only once, may the title pass to a female, if the female be next in line.
22:40That would automatically make her a countess.
22:44So far, that hasn't happened in the history of the title, until now.
22:49Well, I'm the next male member of the family.
22:52It's Agatha.
22:53She's older than I am.
22:53I refuse to sit here and...
22:57Watson!
23:03You'll notice, Lestrade, that this bag is identical to Miss Meredith's.
23:12Chen, who ordered this second bag from you?
23:15This woman, mister.
23:17Mm-hmm.
23:18Chen, why didn't you tell me this?
23:21You know, ask me, mister.
23:25This man, he ask me.
23:27And you see, the switch was simple and premeditated, of course.
23:31Why, Miss Axton, how could you?
23:37Preposterous!
23:43Anyway, young man, you had no right to come into my house and get that handbag.
23:47It's thieving, and it's against the law!
23:55Detain her, Wilkins.
24:00Mr. Holmes, what ever made you think of Aunt Agatha?
24:03Well, at least I can tell you this much, Mr. Travers.
24:05I didn't use a magnifying glass.
24:08You see, the true deductive mind knows just when to substitute routine investigation for deduction.
24:18Are you going somewhere, Lestrade?
24:21I have crossed the room, Mr. Holmes.
24:28I have put on my hat.
24:31I deduce, therefore, that I am leaving.
24:36Routine investigation will reveal the fact, Mr. Holmes, that I have gone to see the commissioner.
24:42I will ask him to do everything in his power to encourage the suffragette movement.
24:50We will then no doubt have a woman, Inspector, in this office.
24:56And when Boris gets out of jail, Mr. Holmes, I will ask him to make me little bombs.
25:04I will then go about London, blowing up lions!
25:12Good day!
25:19You know, Holmes, I've been worried about his complexion lately.
25:23I think Lestrade needs a rest.
25:25Yes, Watson, yes, I'm inclined to agree.
25:34I think Lestrade needs a rest.
25:44I think Lestrade needs a rest.
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