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Those Who Would Be Holmes

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The Speckled Band

Directed by: Robin Midgley

Screenplay by: Giles Cooper

Cast: Douglas Wilmer
        Nigel Stock
        Felix Felton
        Liane Aukin

Release Date: May 18, 1964

IMDB Storyline:

Helen Stoner needs the great man's help. She lives in a country mansion with her flamboyant and sinister guardian Grimesby Raylott, who has travelled abroad and brought home some souvenir livestock. Recently her sister Julia, about to be married and made by Raylott to sleep in a bed that was screwed to the floor, died in mysterious circumstances. Her final words referred to a "speckled band." Helen is fearful for her own safety and Holmes and Watson investigate.
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The Illustrious Client

Directed by: Peter Sasdy

Screenplay by: Giles Cooper

Cast: Douglas Wilmer
        Nigel Stock
        Peter Wyngarde
        Jennie Linden

Release Date: February 20, 1965

IMDB Storyline:

Sir James Damery, acting for a very illustrious client, consults Holmes. Violet Merville is engaged to marry the Austrian Baron Gruner, who has murdered at least one wife and yet the foolish, headstrong Violet will not hear a word against him. The client is fearful for Violet's safety should the marriage go ahead. Holmes enlists the assistance of Kitty Winter, a woman whom the Baron used and threw aside, to get access to Gruner's album in which he has catalogued his conquests, to make Violet see him in his true light.
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The Devil's Foot

Directed by: Max Varnel

Screenplay by: Giles Cooper

Cast: Douglas Wilmer
        Nigel Stock
        Carl Benard
        Camilla Hasse

Release Date: February 27, 1965

IMDB Storyline: 

Whilst in Cornwall Holmes is approached by the local vicar to determine how Brenda Tregennis died whilst sitting in a room, playing cards with her two brothers, who were struck down with dementia as a result. The trail leads to an African adventurer and a deadly root known as the Devil's Foot.
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The Cooper Beeches

Directed by: Gareth Davies

Screenplay by: Vincent Tilsley

Cast: Douglas Wilmer
        Nigel Stock
        Patrick Wymark
        Suzanne Neve

Release Date: March 6, 1965

IMDB Storyline:

Miss Violet Hunter has been engaged by the jovial if odd Mr. Rucastle at his country house in Hampshire as a governess to his little boy. The pay is excellent but the terms are bizarre - Miss Hunter has to cut her hair short and stand in the window wearing a blue dress. She realizes that this is for the benefit of a person watching the house continually but needs Holmes' help in working out why.
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The Red Headed League

Directed by: Peter Duguid

Screenplay by: Anthony Read

Cast: Douglas Wilmer
        Nigel Stock
        Davis Andrews
        John Barcroft

Release Date: March 13, 1965

IMDB Storyline:

Red-headed shop-keeper Jabez Wilson comes to Holmes with a puzzle. Goaded on by his young assistant Spaulding, he answered an advert for men with his hair colouring to join the Red-Headed League. It merely consisted of his sitting alone in a room, copying out words for several weeks. One day he found a notice on the door to state that the league had disbanded. What could it mean? Realizing that Wilson's premises are next to a bank and young Spaulding has been digging Holmes is in a position to set a trap to find out.
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The Abbey Grange

Directed by: Peter Cregeen

Screenplay by: Clifford Witting

Cast: Douglas Wilmer
        Nigel Stock
        Ronald Adams
        Ian Anders

Release Date: March 20, 1965

IMDB Storyline: 

Holmes is called in by Inspector Hopkins to assist in solving the murder of Sir Eustace Brackenstall, whose house, the Abbey Grange, was also robbed, his young Australian wife Mary, being tied up by the thieves. Evidence points to it being the work of the Randall family, notorious local thieves, but certain discrepancies lead Holmes to rightly suspect a justified crime of passion, made to look like a break-in and a crime whose participants may be allowed to go free.
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The Six Napoleons

Directed by: Gareth Davies

Screenplay by: Giles Cooper

Cast: Douglas Wilmer
        Nigel Stock
        Arthur Hewlett
        Donald Hewlett

Release Date: March 27, 1965

IMDB Storyline:

Why should a wild-eyed Latin go around London, entering shops and burgling houses purely to smash miniature busts of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte? Holmes knows. The man is not a lunatic, as the police suspect,but is looking for something concealed in one of the Napoleons.
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