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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century is an animated television series, in which Sherlock Holmes is brought back to life in the 22nd century. The series is a co–production by DiC and Scottish Television and

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 11 - The Adventure of the Dancing Men
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #1 - The Adventure of the Dancing Men

    S1:E11

    Hilton Cubitt and his wife, Elsie, are devloping a way to grow plants at subzero temperatures. But someone wants their research, and he is willing to kill them for it. Someone breaks in and a struggle ensues, ending with Hilton falling into a cryogenic tank and Elsie out cold beside it. Holmes and the gang arrive to help. Not only must they solve the case, but they must also deal with a nosy cousin, Abe Slaney. They end up finding out quite a bit, involving a strange email with a series of dancing stick figure men and Mrs. Cubitt's past.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 16 - The Red-Headed League
    6.6/10(11 votes)

    #2 - The Red-Headed League

    S1:E16

    Carter Wilson is tricked by Vince Spaulding into working for the Red Headed League.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 4 - The Gloria Scott
    6.8/10(11 votes)

    #3 - The Gloria Scott

    S2:E4

    Holmes' friend Victor's father is apparently being blackmailed. Ever since the appearance of Hudson, a new hiree, he has seemed edgy, and mysterious notes have been found. But how far back will this case take our heroes? Holmes' must unravel events from before Victor's birth in order to solve this case, including why Mr. Trevor is using an alias.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 14 - Silver Blaze
    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #4 - Silver Blaze

    S1:E14

    The racing vehicle Silver Blaze is missing. Now the owner blames his rival, who blames him back. Holmes must figure out how to get information out of the only one who witnessed the crime: the owner's dog, who barks loudly if anyone unfamiliar comes near. The ending will have Lestrade at the wheel as they fly through asteroids to catch the culprit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 2 - The Crime Machine
    7.0/10(25 votes)

    #5 - The Crime Machine

    S1:E2

    This story introduces Martin Fenwick, who like Dr. Frankenstein is overwhelmed by his creation, a Moriarty clone and the 22nd century Baker Street Irregulars -- as always street-wise young people -- anti-grav chaired computer whiz Tennison, a Black would-be boxer Wiggins and a girl, Deidre.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 3 - The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #6 - The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb

    S2:E3

    A blood regenerating device is stolen from the safe of a scientist named Victor Hatherley. Hatherley's thumbprint is needed to open the safe.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 7 - The Adventure of the Beryl Board
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    #7 - The Adventure of the Beryl Board

    S2:E7

    The Beryl Board, a new computer processor, has been stolen from the home of Mr. Holder. Holder accuses his son, Arthur of stealing the board, which was found in his possession with apiece broken off. It is up to Holmes, Watson, and the Baker Street Irregulars to clear Arthur, and to expose the one he has been hiding.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 3 - The Hounds of the Baskervilles
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    #8 - The Hounds of the Baskervilles

    S1:E3

    A giant hound has been seen-and strangely enough, heard- on the moon. People are worried. It's up to Holmes, Watson, and Lestrade to expose what's happening and to catch who's responsible for it all. Of course, being jumped by the hound along the way doesn't help matters...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 8 - The Scales of Justice
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #9 - The Scales of Justice

    S1:E8

    Dr. Grimsby Roylott uses a snake, not to kill his daughter, but to become a snake-man to steal nanobot technology to save his failed New London Zoo. The clues are a snake scale with hair, a sabotaged hovercraft, the Zoo financial records and the history of the animal rights activists, the Earth Sentinels.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Ken Pontac

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  10. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 17 - The Man with the Twisted Lip
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #10 - The Man with the Twisted Lip

    S1:E17

    Lois St. Clair asks Holmes to find her husband Neville. The investigation leads to a panhandler with a twisted lip.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 5 - The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #11 - The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

    S2:E5

    During a car chase, their quarry vanishes. Then our heroes get a call that a wealthy man's car (The Napoleon) was broken into and vandalized. Not stolen, and precious gems are ruined nearby.

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  12. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 5 - The Crooked Man
    7.3/10(12 votes)

    #12 - The Crooked Man

    S1:E5

    A loud argument between a man and his wife attracts the attention of their housekeeper. The man is then discovered to be missing. The room shows signs of a great struggle, with curious parallel slashes everywhere. It also seems that a great change has come over the wife since her walk that afternoon. Holmes is determined to find out what happened on that walk. The result is amazing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 9 - The Resident Patient
    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #13 - The Resident Patient

    S1:E9

    Fenwick and Moriarty's other henchmen assume disguises, using technology invented by Dr. Blessington to make their DNA unrecognizable.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 10 - The Sign of Four
    7.3/10(13 votes)

    #14 - The Sign of Four

    S1:E10

    Mary Morstan comes to Holmes with a problem. The solution of that problem, however, will lead them clear to the moon! Mary's father had been killed in a mine accident on the moon years ago. Now Mary is finding out that the circumstances were strange then, and the sequel is even stranger now.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 1 - The Secret Safe
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #15 - The Secret Safe

    S2:E1

    Inspired by ""His Last Bow"" A robbery at 10 Downing Street threatens the very existence of England itself. A thief steals data plans of the ultimate security system out of a secret safe hidden in a high light fixture, replacing them with a copy. When he accidently sets off the alarm, he steals an African doll to use as a decoy burglary.

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  16. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 6 - The Adventure of the Deranged Detective
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #16 - The Adventure of the Deranged Detective

    S1:E6

    Holmes fakes madness and babbles about oysters apparently after exposure to a boobytrapped puzzlebox, not infected with mind-altering nanobots. At Midgard Hospital are the suspected nanatech thieves: Dr. Cushing, Dr. Cuthbertson Smith and Dr. Chang. Smith is given away by the surgeons' knot on his retro nonvelcro shoes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Henry Gilroy

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  17. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 12 - The Musgrave Ritual
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #17 - The Musgrave Ritual

    S1:E12

    The ancient Musgrave sword is stolen from the heavily-guarded museum even though the inscription on it is readily available on the replicas in the souvenir stand. The trail leads to the Musgrave graveyard and on into ""the Abyss"".

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  18. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 13 - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
    7.5/10(15 votes)

    #18 - The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

    S1:E13

    Henry Baker loses hat and doll, a GREEN Carbuncle rather than the usual blue one from the Wundygate toy store. It is actually a prototype robot with a human-like personality. Naturally Moriarity wants it. Holmes lets him have it!

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 2 - The Adventure of the Second Stain
    7.5/10(9 votes)

    #19 - The Adventure of the Second Stain

    S2:E2

    A holodisc containing a security code is stolen from an intelligence agent named Mark Trenton. Holmes is brought in by the intelligence agency to find the disc. Trenton's wife and another agent named Edward Lucas appear to be connected to the case.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 1 - The Fall and Rise of Sherlock Holmes
    7.6/10(38 votes)

    #20 - The Fall and Rise of Sherlock Holmes

    S1:E1

    The pilot tells how Holmes survived in and came to be revived in the Holmes Museum. He anticipated two centuries' progress in cryogenics, preserving himself -- in honey! The criminal activity of Moriarty's clone prompts Inspector Lestrad, like her ancestor, to seek Holmes' help. Her compudroid so loves the Canon of Sherlock Holmes stories that it assumes the name and role of Dr. Watson.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 6 - The Adventure of the Creeping Man
    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #21 - The Adventure of the Creeping Man

    S2:E6

    Inspector Lestrade learns Alice Murphy is engaged to their old teacher, Prof. Jacob Presbury. The professor is moody and forgetful. His daughter is jealous. Family friend Trevor is over-protective. Meanwhile Holmes investigates three monkeys stolen from the Primate Shelter, stolen as it turns out by Trevor who wants Alice for himself and so turned Presbury into an apeman.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 7 - The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Lot
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #22 - The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Lot

    S1:E7

    A mysterious and somewhat theatrical vampire is crashing computer grids, swimping codes, invading locked vaults, and causing panic in New London. The only clue is video images of the devil grinning into the camera as he crushes a computer disk in his hand. Lestrade pursues the Sussex vampire with her usual (destructive) aplomb, which rather amuses the detective. Diedre--who has a unique female perspective on things that Holmes cannot for all his smarts manufacture--notes an interesting quirk their foe has while watching hours of old vamp flicks and tapes of the Sussex vamp's little disk-breaking show. Holmes, Watson, and the Baker St. Irregulars pursue the data-sucking fiend into its sewer lair...and meet up with an old ""friend"" of Holmes', who is also looking into the vamp matter.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 9 - A Case of Identity
    7.8/10(9 votes)

    #23 - A Case of Identity

    S2:E9

    To prevent Inspector Lestrade's dangerous antics and police chases, Grayson has assigned her a new partner ""fresh out of the academy."" As the Scotland Yard's security becomes compromised, the rookie keeps bumbling, making mistakes and getting in everyone's way. Is he really what he seems to be?

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 2 Episode 8 - The Adventure of the Mazarin Chip
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #24 - The Adventure of the Mazarin Chip

    S2:E8

    Moriarty and Fenwick steal the Mazarin Chip, a microchip which can be used to create virtual environments instantly, and kidnap the Prime Minister. Holmes uses a waxwork likeness of himself to catch Moriarty in a trap.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century Season 1 Episode 15 - The Five Orange Pips
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #25 - The Five Orange Pips

    S1:E15

    A man receives five orange seeds, or pips in a letter, but they have been tainted with some kind of serum that induces a coma in him. Before succumbing, he writes down an address and gives his son these instructions. Get help from Sherlock Holmes, and under no circumstances is he to be brought to a hospital. Complicating matters, is the family are ""anti-techs,"" people who are strongly against tecnology and robots of any kind, preferring to live in Sherlock's time period. Watson is not exactly welcome...

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Adventure of the Dancing Men" is the worst rated episode of "Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century". It scored 6.6/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/27/1999. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Red-Headed League".