I recall looking forward to this episode. It would feature Charles Gray as Mycroft Holmes. I remember the character being played by Christopher Lee in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
The episode begins with a bored Holmes, lamenting on the lack of crime in London. Mycroft calls on his brother on a matter of national importance. Confidential designs on a secret submarine project have gone missing. A government clerk, Cadogan West has been found dead. He is the likely suspect for the theft. His body was found next to the railway line with some pages of the plans on his body.
Holmes needs to visit all the people who had the keys to the safe where the plans were stored. One of whom has subsequently died before Holmes can get to talk to him.
Of course Holmes soon realises that there is more to this theft as it points towards international espionage. The clerk it seems was killed elsewhere and his body placed on the railway.
This is a more thoughtful case and it needs more deductions from Holmes. It also involves Holmes breaking and entering. Gray was an imposing Mycroft and would go on to appear a few more times as Mycroft, mainly as cover for an ill Jeremy Brett.
The episode begins with a bored Holmes, lamenting on the lack of crime in London. Mycroft calls on his brother on a matter of national importance. Confidential designs on a secret submarine project have gone missing. A government clerk, Cadogan West has been found dead. He is the likely suspect for the theft. His body was found next to the railway line with some pages of the plans on his body.
Holmes needs to visit all the people who had the keys to the safe where the plans were stored. One of whom has subsequently died before Holmes can get to talk to him.
Of course Holmes soon realises that there is more to this theft as it points towards international espionage. The clerk it seems was killed elsewhere and his body placed on the railway.
This is a more thoughtful case and it needs more deductions from Holmes. It also involves Holmes breaking and entering. Gray was an imposing Mycroft and would go on to appear a few more times as Mycroft, mainly as cover for an ill Jeremy Brett.