Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs

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Sherlock Holmes

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Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective.

Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective - resident of 221B Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 3: 1. The Empty House

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Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 3

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The detective returns from the dead to solve a puzzling locked-room murder.

The detective returns from the dead to solve a puzzling locked-room murder. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thriller from 1961.

Years have passed since Dr Watson saw Holmes and Moriarty hurtle to their inevitable deaths into the chasm. 

Now by chance Watson meets Holmes's brother, Mycroft...

Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale originally appeared in ‘The Return of Sherlock Holmes’ published 1903. 

Adapted by Michael Hardwick.

Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson …. Norman Shelley
First Man …. Stanley Lebor
Inspector Lestrade/Second Man …. Humphrey Morton
Colonel Moran …. Noel Johnson
Third Man …. David Terence
Jessie …. Eva Huszar 
Mrs Hudson …. Gudrun Ure

Carleton Hobbs played the Baker Street sleuth in 80 radio dramas between 1952 and 1969.

Producer: Robin Midgley.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1961.

Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 3

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