Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (TV series 1967)

Inside the lost 1967 BBC TV series 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle', by Mark Jones. Order the book.

"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" was a BBC TV series of 13 episodes based on non-sherlockian short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The TV series was also known under the title "The Short Stories of Conan Doyle" or "Conan Doyle".

The 50-minutes episodes were written by John Hawkesworth (the future writer of the Jeremy Brett series between 1984-1994 for Granada TV).

The episodes varied from horror, medical to boxing stories. A connecting thread ran through the series in the form of three university students around whom each of the stories was centered : Philip Hardacre (Michael Latimer), Tom Crabbe (Keith Buckley) and Monkhouse Lee (Christopher Matthews).

Series producer was Harry Moore, the concept being created by John Hawkesworth.

Episode list

#	Date	Episode	Original story
1	15.01.1967	Lot 249, A Horrific Tale	Lot No. 249 (1892)
2	22.01.1967	The Croxley Master, A Heroic Tale	The Croxley Master (1899)
3	05.02.1967	The Chemistry of Love, A Romantic Tale	A Physiologist's Wife (1890)
4	12.02.1967	The Lift, A Desperate Tale	The Lift (1922)
5	19.02.1967	Crabbe's Practice, A Comic Tale	Crabbe's Practice (1884)
6	26.02.1967	The Willow House School, A Mysterious Tale	The Story of the Latin Tutor (1899)
7	05.03.1967	The Brown Hand, A Fantastic Tale	The Story of the Brown Hand (1899)
8	12.03.1967	The Mystery of Cader Ifan, A Tragic Tale	The Surgeon of Gaster Fell (1890)
9	19.03.1967	The New Catacomb, A Scandalous Tale	The New Catacomb (1898)
10	26.03.1967	Redhanded, A Bloody Tale	The Story of B 24 (1899)
11	02.04.1967	The Black Doctor, A Strange Tale	The Story of the Black Doctor (1898)
12	16.04.1967	The Beetle Hunter, A Mysterious Tale	The Story of the Beetle Hunter (1898)
13	23.04.1967	Playing with Fire, A Haunted Tale	Playing with Fire (1900)

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• Conan Doyle on screen