Sherlock Holmes (1984): The Dancing Men
Episode score
8.7
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The Dancing Men
- 2.
- Season: 1
- Episode: 2
- First Aired: 5/1/1984
Hilton Cubitt, from Derbyshire, consults Holmes about a series of dancing men picture-messages his wife is receiving. On their wedding-day, she had made Cubitt promise he would ask her nothing about her past, but she now seems to be terrified.
Holmes has to decipher the code of the matchstick men and get to the bottom of a dreadful murder which lies behind it.
- Director:
- John Bruce
- Stars:
- Colin Jeavons (Inspector Lestrade)
- David Burke (I) (Dr Watson (Seasons 1 and 2))
- Rosalie Williams (Mrs Hudson)
- Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Holmes)
- Guest Star:
- Paul Jaynes (Walker)
- David Ross (Inspector Martin)
- Lorraine Peters (Mrs King)
- Wendy Jane Walker (Saunders)
- Tenniel Evans (Hilton Cubitt)
- Betsey Brantley (Elsie Cubitt)
- Eugene Lipinski (Abe Slaney)
- Bernard Atha (Dr Carthew)
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- This episode is based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of the Dancing Men which first appeared in The Strand magazine in December, 1903.
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