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Thor Bridge

Directed by: Anthony Kearey

Screenplay by: Harry Moore

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Willoughby Gray
        Juliet Mills

Release Date: November 4, 1968

IMDB Storyline: 

Wealthy Neil Gibson becomes Holmes' latest client. He is unhappily married and fond of Grace Dunbar, his children's governess. His wife was found shot in the head at Thor Bridge, and Grace, who is accused of the murder,went to the bridge to meet her at the time of the death.

The Musgrave Ritual

Directed by: Viktors Ritelis

Screenplay by: Alexander Baron

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Brian Jackson
         Norman Wooland

Release Date: November 11, 1968

IMDB Storyline: 

Reginald Musgrave, who comes from a family with a long and noble history, asks for Holmes' assistance when his womanizing butler mysteriously disappears after Musgrave has caught him trying to locate a map of instructions, known as the Musgrave Ritual, which will allegedly unearth royal treasure, hidden in the Civil War.

Black Peter

Directed by: Anthony Kearey

Screenplay by: Richard Harris

Cast: Peter Cushing
         Nigel Stock
         Wilfred Downing
         James Kenney

Release Date: November 18, 1968

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Holmes helps Inspector Hopkins investigate the murder of 'Black' Peter Carey, a drunken, aggressive ex-sailor, harpooned to death in his log cabin in the woods. Peter seems to have known his killer as he had been drinking with them. A tobacco pouch with the initials P.C. is found but Carey did not smoke. A book with the initials J.H.N. leads Hopkins to arrest John Neligan, who was certainly in the cabin at some time but Holmes reckons he was too feeble a man to wield a harpoon.

Wisteria Lodge

Directed by: Roger Jenkins

Screenplay by: Alexander Baron

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Walter Gotell
        Richard Pearson

Release Date: November 25, 1968

IMDB Storyline: 

Mr. John Scott Eccles tells Holmes how he went to stay overnight at Wisteria Lodge as the guest of Spaniard senor Garcia but in the morning everyone had gone. Senor Garcia is dead and Holmes travels to Surrey to assist Inspector Baynes in the murder enquiry. Baynes believes that Garcia's servant is to blame but Holmes is more interested in a neighbour, Henderson, and his English governess, Miss Burnet, who are not what they first appear to be.

Shoscombe Old Place

Directed by: Bill Bain

Screenplay by: Donald Tosh

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Nigel Green
        Edward Woodward

Release Date: December 2, 1968

IMDB Storyline: 

Holmes is engaged by John Mason, groom to Sir Robert Norberton, whose horse is to run in the Derby in a few days. Mason has noticed many things wrong at Shoscombe Old Place, such as Norberton's meeting a stranger in the family vault, the discovery of bones in a furnace, and the distant behaviour of Sir Robert's sister, who has refused to acknowledge her favourite horse and given away her dog. Holmes reveals a plot which, rather than criminal,is a desperate bid to buy time.

The Solitary Cyclist

Directed by: Viktors Ritelis

Screenplay by: Stanley Miller

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Carole Potter
        Charles Tingwell

Release Date: December 9, 1968

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Miss Violet Smith is hired as a governess to the kindly widower Mr. Carruthers at his country house. She is unsettled by the presence of a rude house guest and even more so by a solitary cyclist who appears out of nowhere to follow her along lonely lanes, disappearing just as suddenly. She asks Holmes to investigate.

The Sign of Four

Directed by: William Sterling

Screenplay by: Michael Hardwick
                      Mollie Hardwick

Cast: Peter Cushing
        Nigel Stock
        Ann Bell
        Paul Daneman

Release Date: December 16, 1968

IMDB Storyline: 

When she receives pearls beyond price and a mysterious message from an anonymous source, Miss Mary Morstan goes to the famous consulting detective of 221B Baker St., Mr. Sherlock Holmes for advice in how to answer the message. Together with his staunch comrade, Dr. John Watson, and a mutt named Toby, Holmes tracks down the secret of the Sign of Four.

The Blue Carbuncle

Directed by: Bill Bain

Screenplay by: Stanley Miller

Cast: Peter Cushing
          Nigel Stock
          Madge Ryan
          James Beck

Release Date: December 23, 1968

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A blue carbuncle, a valuable jewel, is stolen from Lady Morcar, and an innocent workman charged and remanded in the run-up to Christmas. Holmes gets a visitor, a gentleman who belongs to a Christmas Club putting money by to purchase a goose for his Christmas dinner. Someone has tried to steal his goose. Another member of the club finds the carbuncle in the goose he has bought. Who put it there? Holmes must find out if one family is to avoid a miserable Yuletide.

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