Fun-filled half hour. Has all the ingredients of satisfying light mystery: cast of crazy characters including murder victim/musical composer, victim's wife (Mrs. Howe from Gilligan's Island), Russian ballerina, and director of her St. Petersburg Royal ballet--Serge Smernoff who hams it up even more than Dr. Watson. Standard themes of espionage, illicit affairs, case of mistaken identity (of hats and coats), make for a meaty plot with a nice twist at the end. A rare chance to hear Lestrade say his own name proving that Basil Rathbone may have been in error all these years. Only a better theme song would have made this entertaining series better-maybe a different composer using a different four notes.

this site introduced me to Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes and I shall be for ever grateful. After watching the eight episodes available here, I treated myself to all 37 episodes made on a DVD collection!!

The TV series was never shown in the UK until a few years ago when a satellite channel called Bonanza continually repeated 8 episodes on a daily basis before going bust, They have recently reappeared as the Young@heart channel, repeating the same 8 episodes.

Howard is excellent as Holmes and his Dr Watson is almost as funny as Nigel Bruce was with Basil Rathbone. Archie Duncan (Little John from the 50s British Robin Hood TV series) plays a brilliant, if somewhat grumpy, Inspector Lestrade. The story lines are a little stilted and very dated but all in all, these shows are television history at its best.

Five Stars!!!!!