The Best Episodes Directed By Peter Hammond

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.3/10(6 votes)

   #1 - The Settling of the Sun

   S2:E33/15/1988

   Oxford is shocked when a a Japanese student dies in what seems to be a brutal ritual killing. Then Morse finds he has unwittingly given all his suspects a watertight alibi.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #2 - The Eligible Bachelor

   S6:E32/3/1993

   American heiress Henrietta Doran (known as Hatty) marries Lord St Simon, but she vanishes without trace on her wedding day, leaving London agog. Later, the police find her wedding dress in the Serpentine, a lake in a London park, with a note in the pocket of the dress. While investigating the case, Holmes suffers from nightmares, which he sees as a factor in the mystery.

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   #3 - The Golden Eggs

   S2:E192/2/1963

   A burglar steals two gold-plated eggs from Dr Ashe, not knowing that they contain a deadly virus. The man quickly falls ill, but refuses to indicate where the case containing the eggs is buried.

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   #4 - Brief for Murder

   S3:E19/28/1963

   Thanks to the clever briefing of the Lakin brothers a man charged with treason is found not guilty. Mrs Gale believes that Steed is implicated, and contacts the newspapers. Steed threatens her: either withdraw her allegations or pay the consequences. Soon Steed is on trial for Gale's murder.

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   #5 - Don't Look Behind You

   S3:E1212/14/1963

   Invited to spend the weekend at the home of medievel costume expert Sir Cavalier Resagne, Cathy finds herself alone in the house, pestered by a young man who claims to be a film director, and haunted by her past. And where is Steed?

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   7.8/10(4 votes)

   #6 - The Master Blackmailer

   S6:E11/2/1992

   Holmes and Watson attempt to thwart the schemes of the infamous blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton from blackmailing Lady Eva Blackwell. But things do not seem as easy as they do and Holmes must sacrifice his morality and his honourable career to stop Milverton from wrecking her marriage.

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   #7 - The Sins of the Fathers

   S4:E21/10/1990

   Morse investigates the murder of Trevor Radford, managing director of the family-owned Radford's Brewery, who was attacked and killed while working late. Morse becomes immersed in the implications of a hostile take-over bid by another company. Then Helen Radford goes to the brewery to look for her missing husband Stephen and finds him also murdered.

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   7.7/10(5 votes)

   #8 - The Golden Pince-Nez

   S7:E33/21/1994

   The police are baffled by the murder of Willoughby Smith, and Inspector Hopkins looks to Holmes to solve the case.

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   7.6/10(6 votes)

   #9 - The Abbey Grange

   S3:E27/16/1986

   Holmes is called in to investigate a murder. Lady Brackenstall says she saw a gang of men kill her bullying husband, Sir Eustace, but on Holmes's arrival the case seems to have been solved. Holmes is uneasy and returns to the scene of the crime, where he finds things are not as they appear to be. And Watson is curious to hear about the lady's love affair with a sea captain during a long voyage.

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    7.2/10(5 votes)

    #10 - The Sign of Four

    S4:E112/29/1987

    For years after her father's disappearance, the beautiful Miss Mary Morstan receives anonymously every year one large and valuable pearl. When, finally, an invitation arrives to meet the mysterious pearl-giver, Mary Morstan seeks Holmes's advice, and he begins to unravel some remarkable clues, including a poison dart and a man with a wooden leg. What Holmes finds is an old soldier who is determined to punish those who betrayed him and his friends by stealing their oriental treasure.

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    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Service of All the Dead

    S1:E31/20/1987

    Morse investigates murder on hallowed ground. A quiet country church is an unlikely setting for the killing, and a vicar and his voluntary helpers are the unlikely suspects. Among them is Ruth Rawlinson, whom Morse is attracted to. Then it appears that a serial killer is at work.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Bullseye

    S2:E410/20/1962

    Shareholders in Anderson's, a small-arms manufacturers, are being killed one by one whilst a tycoon plans a take-over. Rifles and other weapons, possibly manufactured by Anderson's, are being smuggled into Africa. Cathy Gale joins the board with a 20 per cent share in order to investigate.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Death of a Great Dane

    S2:E811/17/1962

    A man involved in a car crash is found to have fifty thousand pounds worth of diamonds in his stomach. Steed investigates the man's joke shop, Big Laugh, and then the offices of multi-millionaire Litoff. The burial of one of Litoff's Great Danes is not quite what it seems.

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    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Warlock

    S2:E181/26/1963

    Steed is entrusted with the safe-keeping of a new fuel formula when its inventor is found in a coma. The scientist had been involved in a black magic circle which leads Steed and Cathy into the world of hexes and magic powers.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Conspiracy of Silence

    S2:E233/2/1963

    The Mafia aren't about to let Steed get in the way of their lucrative drug-smuggling operation between Britain and North America, and arrange for him to be assassinated. Steed survives, and tracks his intended killer to a circus, where some of the clowns prove to be anything but figures of fun.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Second Sight

    S3:E811/16/1963

    The cornea grafts that will, hopefully, restore the sight of blind millionaire Marten Halvarssen fascinate Steed: they're rumoured to be coming from a live patient, one Hilda Brauer. Steed suspects that all is not what it seems and so sends Cathy to Switzerland to oversee the operation.

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    #17 - The Golden Fleece

    S3:E1112/7/1963

    Steed and Cathy eat at a Chinese restaurant, but, as ever, it's not just for fun: Steed suspects the owner, Mr Lo, of gold smuggling. He also seems to be allied with Army types who are smuggling ammunition to support ex-servicemen.

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    #18 - Build a Better Mousetrap

    S3:E212/15/1964

    What does Cathy joining a motorcycle gang, two elderly ladies who own a watermill and claim to be witches, and all of the clocks stopping at a local atomic research station have in common? They're all present in Brian Clemen's first great step into the bizarre.

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    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #19 - The Three Gables

    S7:E13/7/1994

    Holmes investigates when a man dies and the manuscript of his recently-completed book is stolen. He has to discover who was behind an unusual proposal to buy a house and all of its contents.

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    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #20 - The Mazarin Stone

    S7:E54/4/1994

    The Mazarin Stone, a famous jewel, acts as a magnet for crime. Holmes investigates the latest and perhaps most curious episode in its adventures.

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    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - The Moles

    S5:E65/30/1982

    Two cash-strapped business owners tunnel their way into a bank – only to find they missed a crucial notice on the door.

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    #22 - The Mugger

    S7:E1410/14/1984

    When a married politician falls in love with a woman at a party, things soon go wrong and his entire career and reputation are put in jeopardy.

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    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #23 - Wisteria Lodge

    S4:E44/20/1988

    On a visit to Wisteria Lodge, Scott Eccles gets a strange reception. A mysterious note arrives for his host, Garcia, and the next morning Garcia and his servants have vanished without trace. Eccles consults Holmes, who decides to treat the case as a murder investigation, but it appears that Holmes and Watson are on a wild goose chase.

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    #24 - Who's Got the Lady?

    S5:E178/15/1982

    When a piece of art is stolen, the gallery owner gets his girlfriend to make copies of it to sell.

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    #25 - Hit and Run

    S6:E125/10/1983

    Dr Roger Ashburn's beautiful wife tells him their marriage is over. Devastated, he begins a new life.

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