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The Second Stain

Directed by: Herni Safran

Screenplay by: Jennifer Stuart

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Clifford Cox
        Cherie Lunghi

Release Date: September 9, 1968

IMDB Storyline: 

Whilst trying to retrieve an indiscreet letter which could damage her husband's position, from the blackmailer Fournaye,politician's wife Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope is the innocent witness to the man's murder. No lesser person than the Premier of Britain approaches Holmes to save Lady Hilda's reputation and her spouse's career.

The Dancing Men

Directed by: William Sterling

Screenplay by: Michael Hardwick
                           Mollie Hardwick

Cast: Peter Cushing
          Nigel Stock
          Judee Morton
          Richardson Morgan

Release Date: September 16, 1968

IMDB Storyline: 

Country land-owner Hilton Cubitt is concerned about his American wife Elsie who seems to have been communicating with an unknown party, using a set of hieroglyphics which resemble dancing men.

A Study in Scarlet

Directed by: Henri Safran

Screenplay by: Hugh Leonard

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Joe Melia
        George A. Cooper

Release Date: September 23, 1968

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A corpse is found in an empty house with the word 'Rache' scrawled on the wall next to it. The police arrest a suspect but then a similar murder occurs, proving that they have the wrong man. In exposing the real killer Holmes uncovers a feud stretching back to Salt Lake City and the Mormon community.

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Part One

Directed by: Graham Evans

Screenplay by: Hugh Leonard

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Gary Raymond
        Gabriella Licudi

Release Date: September 30, 1968

IMDB Storyline:

Dr. Mortimer, who has a general practice on Dartmoor, consults Holmes. His friend Sir Charles Baskerville has recently died, supposedly of a heart attack but Dr.Mortimer links the death to the myth of the hound of the Baskervilles, which, centuries earlier, killed wicked Hugo Baskerville and is said to haunt each generation. Sir Charles' young heir and nephew Henry is returning from abroad and the doctor fears for his safety. Sir Henry has a boot stolen from his hotel room and is followed by a bearded man. Holmes sends Dr. Watson off to Dartmoor with Mortimer and Henry, where he meets the butterfly collector and his sister Beryl, plus the very nervous housekeeper and valet to the Baskervilles, Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore, who appear to be signalling to someone on the moor...

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Part Two

Directed by: Graham Evans

Screenplay by: Hugh Leonard

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Gary Raymond
        Gabriella Licudi

Release Date: October 7, 1968

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Sir Henry is apparently attacked and killed by the hound but the victim is actually an escaped convict, Seldon, Mrs. Barrymore's brother, to whom she had given old clothes of Henry's and the dog, recognizing the scent from the boot stolen in London, had gone for him. Watson meets a disguised Holmes, living rough on the moors in order to survey the likely suspects. He believes he has seen the man who controls the hound and sets a trap for him with Sir Henry as its bait.

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

Directed by: Viktors Ritelis

Screenplay by: Bruce Stewart

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        John Tate
        Nick Tate

Release Date: October 14, 1968

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The dead body of grumpy Bill McCarthy is found, brained with a rock, and his son James, with whom he did not get on, is arrested. James' girl-friend approaches Holmes, who discovers that Bill's dying words were nothing to do with "a rat" but concerned with the days of the Australian Gold Rush, decades earlier.

The Greek Interpreter

Directed by: David Saire

Screenplay by: John Gould

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Edward Hardwicke
        Nigel Terry

Release Date: October 21, 1968

IMDB Storyline:

Mr. Melas comes to see Holmes. He was hired by a man called Latimer as a translater but the job became extremely sinister as he was hired to interpret to a fellow Greek, who was clearly being kept in Latimer's house against his will. A woman called Sophy, who turns out to be the prisoner's sister, is also involved.

The Naval Treaty

Directed by: Antony Kearey

Screenplay by: John Gould

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Peter Bowles
        Dennis Price

Release Date: October 28, 1968

IMDB Storyline: 

A Foreign Office employee who had an important Naval treaty stolen whilst he was on duty has become sick with worry and retired from his job, staying with his fiancee and her brother. Watson is concerned for him and brings in Holmes, who is in time to thwart an attempted burglary from the man's sick room.

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