Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens) is presented with what looks to be a straightforward missing persons case. Madame Gabrielle Valladon (Genevieve Page) has come to London from Brussels in search of her missing husband, a mining engineer who stopped writing to her three weeks ago. She discovered that the address she was using was an empty storefront and was then attacked and thrown into the Thames to drown. Waterlogged and with a mild case of amnesia, she is dumped onto the doorstep of 221B Baker St for Holmes and Dr. Watson (Colin Blakely) to figure out. Holmes is warned off the case by his brother, Mycroft (Christopher Lee), but is undeterred. He tracks Mr. Valladon to Inverness, Scotland, home of Loch Ness and its monster. Holmes must solve the mystery of the lake, the missing man, dead canaries, little people acrobats, Trappists monks, and national security, all while guarding his heart from the beautiful Madame.
Stephens' Holmes is very arch, very British, very dry. Blakely's Watson is annoyingly hyperactive, though, which made Stephens seem much more reasonable. Page is absolutely the star of the show here and Lee steals every scene. I would have loved a Diogenes Club series starring him instead.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is streaming on Tubi, the Roku Channel, and PlutoTV.
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