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* LetOffByTheDetective: After learning that John Turner killed Charles to protect his daughter Alice, and that Turner [[YourDaysAreNumbered has only a few months to live]], he decides to keep his guilt secret, though he does have Turner write a confession in case it proves necessary to exonerate James of the murder.
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* ImmortalityImmorality: Professor Presbury's use of a rejuvenation drug causes him to exhibit animal-like behavior. Holmes' comment indicates that he disapproves of immortality in and of itself.
-->''"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it... Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"''
-->''"When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it... Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become?"''
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original short story, Duke of Holdernesse is so desperate to avoid scandal that he allows his kidnapped son to stay at an inn for three days after he's found before bringing him home and allows Hayes, one of the boy's abductors, to flee justice. In the TV series, the Duke is also concerned about preventing scandal and demands the police to keep a low profile, but Sherlock Holmes talks the Duke into putting his son's life over his reputation and allows greater freedom of movement for the police and Sherlock Holmes to continue his investigation.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original short story, Duke of Holdernesse is so desperate to avoid scandal that he allows makes his kidnapped son to stay at an inn for three days after he's found before bringing him home and allows Hayes, one of the boy's abductors, to flee justice. In the TV series, the Duke is also concerned about preventing scandal and demands the police to keep a low profile, but Sherlock Holmes talks the Duke into putting his son's life over his reputation and allows greater freedom of movement for the police and Sherlock Holmes to continue his investigation.
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* TheCoatsAreOff: Woodley slaps Holmes across the face. Holmes proceeds to calmly remove his hat and coat, hang them up and then lay a serious beatdown on Woodley.
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* TheCoatsAreOff: Woodley slaps Holmes across the face. Holmes proceeds to calmly remove his hat and coat, hang then up and then lay a serious beatdown on Woodley.
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* RapunzelHair: Violet Hunter is very proud of hers. One reason she consults Holmes is that she finds her employer's demand that she cut it to be very odd.
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* IllBoy: Percy Phelps is an old school friend of Watson's. Watson remembers him as a delicate boy, and when he becomes their client he's just recovering from a nervous breakdown that's lasted almost ten weeks.
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* BilingualBonus: This is one of the only dramatic Holmes adaptations where Irene Adler's name is pronounced as it would be in German. (ee-REN-uh AHD-ler)
* BrickJoke: At the beginning, the King of Bohemia ignores Watson's offer to shake hands; at the end, Holmes ignores the ''King's'' offer to shake hands, and Watson caps things off by shaking hands uninvited. And it is ''hilarious''. The look on Watson's face is what really perfects the whole scene.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Watson's voiceover at the beginning and end did not become a trend, although he later would sometimes read aloud from his writing onscreen.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Watson and Holmes's first scene together is a beautiful establishing moment for them both. Watson is shown to be soldierly, stern, concerned for Holmes's wellbeing, and willing to listen to and put up with Holmes. Holmes, on the other hand, is shown to be careless with his health, easily bored because of his fast mind, absolutely ''dependent'' upon mental stimulation, brilliant, quirky, fond of "his Boswell"... And just look at him when he's sitting all folded up before the fire - it's a powerful image. He's just ''alone'', and he'll always be a bit alone.
* WhatTheHellHero: Holmes and Watson's first conversation involves Watson tearing into Holmes because of his drug addiction because it will destroy his deductive powers as time goes on.
* BrickJoke: At the beginning, the King of Bohemia ignores Watson's offer to shake hands; at the end, Holmes ignores the ''King's'' offer to shake hands, and Watson caps things off by shaking hands uninvited. And it is ''hilarious''. The look on Watson's face is what really perfects the whole scene.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Watson's voiceover at the beginning and end did not become a trend, although he later would sometimes read aloud from his writing onscreen.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Watson and Holmes's first scene together is a beautiful establishing moment for them both. Watson is shown to be soldierly, stern, concerned for Holmes's wellbeing, and willing to listen to and put up with Holmes. Holmes, on the other hand, is shown to be careless with his health, easily bored because of his fast mind, absolutely ''dependent'' upon mental stimulation, brilliant, quirky, fond of "his Boswell"... And just look at him when he's sitting all folded up before the fire - it's a powerful image. He's just ''alone'', and he'll always be a bit alone.
* WhatTheHellHero: Holmes and Watson's first conversation involves Watson tearing into Holmes because of his drug addiction because it will destroy his deductive powers as time goes on.
* IllBoy: Percy Phelps is an old school friend of Watson's. Watson remembers him as a delicate boy, and when he becomes their client he's just recovering from a nervous breakdown that's lasted almost ten weeks.
* RuleOfDrama: After solving the case, Holmes invites Percy Phelps to breakfast and offers him a covered tray--when Phelps demurs for lack of appetite Holmes resorts to asking Phelps to help him. Beneath the lid: the treaty poor Phelps has been literally fainting over for the past two months. Holmes subsequently has to apologize for almost inducing another attack of nerves.
* RuleOfDrama: After solving the case, Holmes invites Percy Phelps to breakfast and offers him a covered tray--when Phelps demurs for lack of appetite Holmes resorts to asking Phelps to help him. Beneath the lid: the treaty poor Phelps has been literally fainting over for the past two months. Holmes subsequently has to apologize for almost inducing another attack of nerves.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Woodley and (originally) Carruthers' plan. Holmes, Watson, and Carruthers arrive too late to prevent the priest proclaiming "man and wife." However, Holmes points out that even if they hadn't hired a ''defrocked'' priest to do the job, England does not recognized forced marriages and in fact treats the matter as a serious felony.
* TheAtoner: Carruthers was originally in on the plot to get Violet Smith to marry Woodley; but he fell in love with her himself and realised how dreadful their plan was, and refused to have anything more to do with it or Woodley. He keeps an eye on Violet over the next few weeks to protect her from his former cronies, and when Woodley abducts her to forcibly wed her, Carruthers shoots him in an effort to free Violet from being married to such a brute. In the end he only has to serve about six months in prison, since the court recognises his reasons for injuring Woodley.
* BrickJoke: At the beginning, Holmes is about to perform a chemistry experiment that a case he's investigating hinges on when Violet shows up with the focus case of the episode. At the end of the episode, Holmes once again attempts the experiment, saying that the reaction it creates will determine the result of the case. The reaction in question is the room filling with smoke, Holmes and Watson shoving their heads out a hastily opened window to get breathable air, and someone in the street below calling the fire department. This was apparently the chemical reaction that Holmes was expecting.
* TheCoatsAreOff: Woodley slaps Holmes across the face. Holmes proceeds to calmly remove his hat and coat, hang then up and then lay a serious beatdown on Woodley.
* DoubleEntendre: A non-sexual version when Holmes and Watson discuss the horse and ''trap'' ordered to transport Violet home.
* EvilRedhead: Mr. Woodley, a predatory ruffian who assaults Violet and later attempts to forcibly marry her.
* ExactWords: When arriving at Charlington to protect Violet, Watson asks who would want to harm her on such a fine morning.
-->'''Holmes:''' I hope nobody.\\
'''Watson:''' Then why did you bring your revolver?\\
'''Holmes:''' You talked about my hope, not my ''expectations.''
* FateWorseThanDeath: Carruthers calls the plan to marry Violet Hunter "the worst fate that can befall a woman," and it's why he wants to put another bullet in Woodley when Watson pronounces the wound non-fatal--Holmes assures him, however, that the marriage is in no way legally binding.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Basically the gist of Holmes's remonstrance to Watson after Watson's attempted reconnaissance. The adaptation leaves out the line towards the end of the original story where Holmes admits that one observation Watson made during his recon (the mystery cyclist appearing to adjust his necktie) should've told him everything he needed to know about the case, and he also earlier admits that his own visit to the area wasn't much more successful.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
** An appropriately Holmsian one after Woodley backhands Holmes and Holmes calmly removes and hangs up his coat.
--> "Everybody here will bear witness to the fact that I am acting in self-defense."
** Carruthers gets a good one at the end of the same episode. It was meant to be a PreMortemOneLiner, but the gunshot proved non-fatal.
-->'''Woodley:''' You're too late. She's my wife!\\
'''Carruthers:''' No, she's your widow. [BANG]
* RightBehindMe: Holmes is asking the barman at Surrey about the gentlemen at Charlington Hall and is just getting to the man with the red mustache when who should walk in behind him, but the red-mustached Woodley. Holmes is not at all abashed, even when Woodley backhands him.
* SinisterMinister: The defrocked priest Williamson happily performs a force marriage and keeps a gun in his Bible during the ceremony.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At first it appears that the villains have won, since Woodley has forced Violet to marry him by the time the heroes find them and Carruthers doesn't manage to kill him -- but Holmes points out that firstly, the priest involved in the plot was defrocked and not legally allowed to officiate a wedding, plus they very likely got the marriage license through dishonest means; and second, a forced marriage is not only not recognised by English law, it's a serious felony.
* TheAtoner: Carruthers was originally in on the plot to get Violet Smith to marry Woodley; but he fell in love with her himself and realised how dreadful their plan was, and refused to have anything more to do with it or Woodley. He keeps an eye on Violet over the next few weeks to protect her from his former cronies, and when Woodley abducts her to forcibly wed her, Carruthers shoots him in an effort to free Violet from being married to such a brute. In the end he only has to serve about six months in prison, since the court recognises his reasons for injuring Woodley.
* BrickJoke: At the beginning, Holmes is about to perform a chemistry experiment that a case he's investigating hinges on when Violet shows up with the focus case of the episode. At the end of the episode, Holmes once again attempts the experiment, saying that the reaction it creates will determine the result of the case. The reaction in question is the room filling with smoke, Holmes and Watson shoving their heads out a hastily opened window to get breathable air, and someone in the street below calling the fire department. This was apparently the chemical reaction that Holmes was expecting.
* TheCoatsAreOff: Woodley slaps Holmes across the face. Holmes proceeds to calmly remove his hat and coat, hang then up and then lay a serious beatdown on Woodley.
* DoubleEntendre: A non-sexual version when Holmes and Watson discuss the horse and ''trap'' ordered to transport Violet home.
* EvilRedhead: Mr. Woodley, a predatory ruffian who assaults Violet and later attempts to forcibly marry her.
* ExactWords: When arriving at Charlington to protect Violet, Watson asks who would want to harm her on such a fine morning.
-->'''Holmes:''' I hope nobody.\\
'''Watson:''' Then why did you bring your revolver?\\
'''Holmes:''' You talked about my hope, not my ''expectations.''
* FateWorseThanDeath: Carruthers calls the plan to marry Violet Hunter "the worst fate that can befall a woman," and it's why he wants to put another bullet in Woodley when Watson pronounces the wound non-fatal--Holmes assures him, however, that the marriage is in no way legally binding.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Basically the gist of Holmes's remonstrance to Watson after Watson's attempted reconnaissance. The adaptation leaves out the line towards the end of the original story where Holmes admits that one observation Watson made during his recon (the mystery cyclist appearing to adjust his necktie) should've told him everything he needed to know about the case, and he also earlier admits that his own visit to the area wasn't much more successful.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
** An appropriately Holmsian one after Woodley backhands Holmes and Holmes calmly removes and hangs up his coat.
--> "Everybody here will bear witness to the fact that I am acting in self-defense."
** Carruthers gets a good one at the end of the same episode. It was meant to be a PreMortemOneLiner, but the gunshot proved non-fatal.
-->'''Woodley:''' You're too late. She's my wife!\\
'''Carruthers:''' No, she's your widow. [BANG]
* RightBehindMe: Holmes is asking the barman at Surrey about the gentlemen at Charlington Hall and is just getting to the man with the red mustache when who should walk in behind him, but the red-mustached Woodley. Holmes is not at all abashed, even when Woodley backhands him.
* SinisterMinister: The defrocked priest Williamson happily performs a force marriage and keeps a gun in his Bible during the ceremony.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At first it appears that the villains have won, since Woodley has forced Violet to marry him by the time the heroes find them and Carruthers doesn't manage to kill him -- but Holmes points out that firstly, the priest involved in the plot was defrocked and not legally allowed to officiate a wedding, plus they very likely got the marriage license through dishonest means; and second, a forced marriage is not only not recognised by English law, it's a serious felony.
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* UriahGambit: Then Sergeant Barclay purposely gave Corporal Henry Wood bad instructions for escaping their camp, leading to his capture and torture for years, hoping he would die. This is was so Sergeant Barclay could marry Nancy who was dating Nancy at the time. It was even {{Discussed}} when Nancy cries out the name David, liking James Barclay to King David who sent [[TropeNamer Uriah]] to the frontlines in hopes that he would die and David could marry his widow.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Colonel Barclay was noted to sometimes go quiet and distant when discussing old campaigns. This is not uncommon for soldiers of long service, but in his case it's lingering guilt.
* ThrowTheDogABone: The original ending has Holmes casually giving Watson the chapter and verse of King David's UriahGambit. Here, Watson looks it up and catches Holmes out for looking up the reference beforehand, although the clue that tipped him off -- he'd marked the page with a recent receipt -- is so obvious as to look like a deliberate giveaway.
* UpThroughTheRanks: Colonel Barclay began as a private sergeant who gained officership during an uprising in India. His second-in-command notes that his rise through the ranks subsequently has been unusually rapid.
* UriahGambit:Then Sergeant This is how Colonel Barclay purposely gave Corporal Henry Wood bad instructions for escaping came to marry Nancy, and the reason she shouts "David" during their camp, leading to his capture and torture for years, hoping he would die. This argument--she's not talking about a lover, she is was so Sergeant Barclay could marry Nancy who was dating Nancy at the time. It was even {{Discussed}} when Nancy cries out the name David, liking James Barclay to King calling ''him'' David who sent [[TropeNamer Uriah]] for sending her other suitor to the frontlines in hopes that he would die and David could marry his widow. be killed (the Uriah).
* ThrowTheDogABone: The original ending has Holmes casually giving Watson the chapter and verse of King David's UriahGambit. Here, Watson looks it up and catches Holmes out for looking up the reference beforehand, although the clue that tipped him off -- he'd marked the page with a recent receipt -- is so obvious as to look like a deliberate giveaway.
* UpThroughTheRanks: Colonel Barclay began as a private sergeant who gained officership during an uprising in India. His second-in-command notes that his rise through the ranks subsequently has been unusually rapid.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: From the original text, the "swamp adder". There was and is no snake with that common name, although the cobra is considered the most likely candidate.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Roylott is the scion of an ancient Saxon family and had a rich wife, but the investments that formed his income have tanked, leaving him desperate not to lose funds.
* MadDoctor: Dr. Grimesby Roylott doesn't actually use medicine for evil, but Holmes believes anyone clever enough to be a doctor is particularly dangerous when they turn to evil.
* OldDarkHorse: Roylott's ancient Saxon seat. He keeps it surrounded with his dangerous menagerie from India and allows Roma to live on the property (thanks to ValuesDissonance this is a mark of his wickedness).
* OldFriend: Watson has an unseen man named Coombes who was in Calcutta around the same time that Dr. Roylott was, and it is he who tells Watson about Roylott's behaviour outside of England.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Dr. Roylett. His stepdaughter's fiance promises to try and improve his own chess game for his next visit to the estate.
* WickedStepfather: Dr. Roylett dominates his stepdaughters, kills one, and plots to kill the other so their marriages don't take away his portion of their mother's inheritance.
* ImpoverishedPatrician: Roylott is the scion of an ancient Saxon family and had a rich wife, but the investments that formed his income have tanked, leaving him desperate not to lose funds.
* MadDoctor: Dr. Grimesby Roylott doesn't actually use medicine for evil, but Holmes believes anyone clever enough to be a doctor is particularly dangerous when they turn to evil.
* OldDarkHorse: Roylott's ancient Saxon seat. He keeps it surrounded with his dangerous menagerie from India and allows Roma to live on the property (thanks to ValuesDissonance this is a mark of his wickedness).
* OldFriend: Watson has an unseen man named Coombes who was in Calcutta around the same time that Dr. Roylott was, and it is he who tells Watson about Roylott's behaviour outside of England.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Dr. Roylett. His stepdaughter's fiance promises to try and improve his own chess game for his next visit to the estate.
* WickedStepfather: Dr. Roylett dominates his stepdaughters, kills one, and plots to kill the other so their marriages don't take away his portion of their mother's inheritance.
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* ChristmasEpisode: Played with. "The Blue Carbuncle" takes place on Christmas Eve and various characters including Holmes and Watson are seen celebrating the holiday or talking about their Christmas celebrations. However, the plot has nothing to do with the holiday except for the titular blue carbuncle being hidden inside a Christmas goose. Remove Christmas and change the hiding place to another livestock, and the plot will remain largely the same.
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* ChristmasEpisode: Played with. "The Blue Carbuncle" The story takes place on Christmas Eve and various characters including Holmes and Watson are seen celebrating the holiday or talking about their Christmas celebrations. However, the plot has nothing to do with the holiday except for the titular blue carbuncle being hidden inside a Christmas goose. Remove Christmas and change the hiding place to another livestock, and the plot will remain largely the same.
* GetOut: The terrified and guilt-stricken culprit begs Holmes for mercy. Holmes tells him, somewhat disgustedly, simply to get out (meaning that he will not report the crime).
* ScareEmStraight: Creator/JeremyBrett's performance in climax is probably infamous for this - dashed if Holmes isn't going all out for scaring James Ryder straight!
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Holmes' retort to Watson's mild remonstrance at the end. After a startling outburst, Holmes explains that he "may be commuting a felony, but I am saving a soul."
* GetOut: The terrified and guilt-stricken culprit begs Holmes for mercy. Holmes tells him, somewhat disgustedly, simply to get out (meaning that he will not report the crime).
* ScareEmStraight: Creator/JeremyBrett's performance in climax is probably infamous for this - dashed if Holmes isn't going all out for scaring James Ryder straight!
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Holmes' retort to Watson's mild remonstrance at the end. After a startling outburst, Holmes explains that he "may be commuting a felony, but I am saving a soul."
* AdaptationDecay: {{Invoked}} when Holmes lectures Watson on emphasizing the details of crimes rather than Holmes' deductions—since crime is ubiquitous, he thinks that the ''logic'' is the key feature of his adventures.
* BookEnds: The episode opens with Holmes complaining bitterly about Watson's writing. It ends with Watson reading out his narrative of the titular case and Holmes declaring it an admirable account.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After repeatedly threatening people with the mastiff, Rucastle gets mauled by his own guard dog at the end. Watson even seems to hesitate for a few moments before shooting the beast.
* OldDarkHorse: The Copper Beeches in Hampshire. Actually it's occupied and well-kept, but the goings-on within are quite sinister. In this story, Holmes expresses his belief that ''all'' country manor houses are liable to be more dangerous than the city. In crowded places, aggravated neighbors will report screams, but in the quiet isolation of the country, criminals can act with impunity.
* RapunzelHair: Violet Hunter is very proud of hers. One reason she consults Holmes is that she finds her employer's demand that she cut it to be very odd.
* ShipperOnDeck: Averted. In the original version, Watson remarks at the end of his narrative that he was disappointed that Holmes didn't get romantically involved with Violet Hunter. At the end of the Granada version, Watson is reading his tale aloud to Holmes, and so the only hint we get as to any romantic sparks between Holmes and Ms. Hunter is the way he can't seem to help touching her hair.
* ShootOutTheLock: Watson shoots out the lock to the turret room when Rucastle locks him, Holmes and Violet Hunter there.
* BookEnds: The episode opens with Holmes complaining bitterly about Watson's writing. It ends with Watson reading out his narrative of the titular case and Holmes declaring it an admirable account.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After repeatedly threatening people with the mastiff, Rucastle gets mauled by his own guard dog at the end. Watson even seems to hesitate for a few moments before shooting the beast.
* OldDarkHorse: The Copper Beeches in Hampshire. Actually it's occupied and well-kept, but the goings-on within are quite sinister. In this story, Holmes expresses his belief that ''all'' country manor houses are liable to be more dangerous than the city. In crowded places, aggravated neighbors will report screams, but in the quiet isolation of the country, criminals can act with impunity.
* RapunzelHair: Violet Hunter is very proud of hers. One reason she consults Holmes is that she finds her employer's demand that she cut it to be very odd.
* ShipperOnDeck: Averted. In the original version, Watson remarks at the end of his narrative that he was disappointed that Holmes didn't get romantically involved with Violet Hunter. At the end of the Granada version, Watson is reading his tale aloud to Holmes, and so the only hint we get as to any romantic sparks between Holmes and Ms. Hunter is the way he can't seem to help touching her hair.
* ShootOutTheLock: Watson shoots out the lock to the turret room when Rucastle locks him, Holmes and Violet Hunter there.
* AffectionatePickpocket: Mycroft combines this with PercussivePickpocket, sharing a close handshake with Kemp after an amiable dinner and then pretending to be shaken by the train into pulling him close, lifting his revolver.
* BilingualBonus: The episode is made of this trope. Lots of Greek spoken here - even ''Holmes'' can speak modern, conversational Greek!
* ClickHello: Wilson Kemp gets one from Mycroft during. With his own weapon.
-->'''Mycroft''': I believe this is your revolver, sir.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** Paul Kratides was gassed to death in the original story. Here it's stated he was beaten to death.
** Harold Latimer was stabbed off-page after escaping England. Here, he attempts to escape Holmes by jumping off a train... and the door swings into another train's path.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Wilson Kemp just doesn't stop ''smiling'', even when he's threatening terrible things!
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wilson Kemp is perhaps the creepiest villain in the entire series, what with his [[SlasherSmile constant grin]], [[GigglingVillain wicked snicker]], [[SuddenlyShouting sudden]] [[MoodSwinger outbursts of rage]], and a vocal delivery that has hints of Creator/PeterLorre.
* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't actually see Harold Latimer get torn apart by an oncoming train, but you know it happens when the door he was hanging from swings shut, devoid of Latimer and quite a bit of the window glass.
* NewspaperThinDisguise: Harold Lattimer is revealed to have sneaked into the Diogenes Club, using a newspaper to conceal his face.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mycroft places a missing persons notice in the paper after hearing Mr. Melas' story. This, of course, alerts Kemp and Latimer that Melas has betrayed their secret and they abduct him at gunpoint.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the original story, Kemp was KilledOffscreen, presumably by Sophie. Here, he is arrested, along with Sophie.
* UnexplainedAccent: Wilson Kemp, a British almost Dickensian name, played by George Costigan, a British actor. So WhatTheHellIsThatAccent? Sounds like Creator/JimBroadbent in ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''.
* BilingualBonus: The episode is made of this trope. Lots of Greek spoken here - even ''Holmes'' can speak modern, conversational Greek!
* ClickHello: Wilson Kemp gets one from Mycroft during. With his own weapon.
-->'''Mycroft''': I believe this is your revolver, sir.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation:
** Paul Kratides was gassed to death in the original story. Here it's stated he was beaten to death.
** Harold Latimer was stabbed off-page after escaping England. Here, he attempts to escape Holmes by jumping off a train... and the door swings into another train's path.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Wilson Kemp just doesn't stop ''smiling'', even when he's threatening terrible things!
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Wilson Kemp is perhaps the creepiest villain in the entire series, what with his [[SlasherSmile constant grin]], [[GigglingVillain wicked snicker]], [[SuddenlyShouting sudden]] [[MoodSwinger outbursts of rage]], and a vocal delivery that has hints of Creator/PeterLorre.
* GoryDiscretionShot: We don't actually see Harold Latimer get torn apart by an oncoming train, but you know it happens when the door he was hanging from swings shut, devoid of Latimer and quite a bit of the window glass.
* NewspaperThinDisguise: Harold Lattimer is revealed to have sneaked into the Diogenes Club, using a newspaper to conceal his face.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Mycroft places a missing persons notice in the paper after hearing Mr. Melas' story. This, of course, alerts Kemp and Latimer that Melas has betrayed their secret and they abduct him at gunpoint.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In the original story, Kemp was KilledOffscreen, presumably by Sophie. Here, he is arrested, along with Sophie.
* UnexplainedAccent: Wilson Kemp, a British almost Dickensian name, played by George Costigan, a British actor. So WhatTheHellIsThatAccent? Sounds like Creator/JimBroadbent in ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The titular character is an actual murderer, who killed a tramp to provide a corpse so that he could fake his death, which didn't happen in Doyle's original story.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Because the story was adapted for the second series of the ''Adventures'' rather than the ''Return'', the adaptation drops Holmes' reference to Professor Moriarty (who hasn’t yet been introduced in the show), but retains Holmes' complaint that there are no more interesting crimes in London. Two episodes later, in The Red-Headed League, Holmes displays clear and presumably long-standing familiarity with Moriarty's work, painting him as the backbone of the criminal world and one of his most formidable antagonists, which rather undercuts his earlier complaints of boredom.
** This is compounded by Holmes making a very similar complaint in "The Copper Beeches", just two episodes prior.
* BritsLoveTea: Watson returns home to find Holmes in utter despair over the case and refusing to eat. Watson's first move is to pour him a cup of tea.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Oldacre was once engaged to young [=McFarlane's=] mother, but she broke it off after realizing his two-faced cruelty and married a kind man. On her wedding day, Oldacre sent her picture back with the face burnt off.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Because the story was adapted for the second series of the ''Adventures'' rather than the ''Return'', the adaptation drops Holmes' reference to Professor Moriarty (who hasn’t yet been introduced in the show), but retains Holmes' complaint that there are no more interesting crimes in London. Two episodes later, in The Red-Headed League, Holmes displays clear and presumably long-standing familiarity with Moriarty's work, painting him as the backbone of the criminal world and one of his most formidable antagonists, which rather undercuts his earlier complaints of boredom.
** This is compounded by Holmes making a very similar complaint in "The Copper Beeches", just two episodes prior.
* BritsLoveTea: Watson returns home to find Holmes in utter despair over the case and refusing to eat. Watson's first move is to pour him a cup of tea.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Oldacre was once engaged to young [=McFarlane's=] mother, but she broke it off after realizing his two-faced cruelty and married a kind man. On her wedding day, Oldacre sent her picture back with the face burnt off.
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* RevengeByProxy: Years ago, Jonas’s fiancée ended their engagement after seeing how cruel Jonas was and marries a man named [=McFarlane=]. Fast forward to the present, Jonas frames her son John Hector [=McFarlane=]for his murder o of vengeance against his former fiancée.
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* ForensicAccounting: Watson searches through Oldacre's documents while Holmes examines the rest of the property and discovers that there are a number of papers which ''should'' be there but aren't.
* GoodIsNotNice: Lestrade fits this trope for most of the story. True, he's doing his job, but he comes across as a definite SmugSnake ''until'' Holmes reveals the true perpetrator.
* RevengeByProxy: Years ago,Jonas’s Jonas' fiancée ended their engagement after seeing how cruel Jonas was and marries a man named [=McFarlane=]. Fast forward to the present, Jonas frames her son John Hector [=McFarlane=]for his murder o of vengeance against his former fiancée.
* GoodIsNotNice: Lestrade fits this trope for most of the story. True, he's doing his job, but he comes across as a definite SmugSnake ''until'' Holmes reveals the true perpetrator.
* RevengeByProxy: Years ago,
* YouDontHaveToSayAnything: Lestrade arrives to arrest [=McFarlane=] before he can tell his story. Holmes asks him to do so, but advises him that everything he says will be entered into evidence since the police are there.
* {{Homage}}: Holmes and Watson's first scene is a retelling of a Doyle-written parody called "Watson Learns the Trick". In both versions, Watson is trying to apply Holmes's methods to deduce what is wrong with the detective. He has a bit more success in the Granada scene.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Moriarty becomes the mastermind as a nice bit of foreshadowing before the next episode, ''The Final Problem".
* BadBoss: When Moriarty's subordinate reports failure, just ''look'' at how ''scared'' the man is, and compare that to his earlier smugness.
* BilingualBonus: Holmes makes two separate quotes in Latin and then French.
* ChekhovsGun: There's really no reason why we should see Holmes's silver cigarette case at the end... except for the fact that we then recognize it for what it is at the climax of "The Final Problem".
* BadBoss: When Moriarty's subordinate reports failure, just ''look'' at how ''scared'' the man is, and compare that to his earlier smugness.
* BilingualBonus: Holmes makes two separate quotes in Latin and then French.
* ChekhovsGun: There's really no reason why we should see Holmes's silver cigarette case at the end... except for the fact that we then recognize it for what it is at the climax of "The Final Problem".
* ActionPrologue: Holmes dodges carriages, masonry, and ruffians, all bent on killing him. Eesh.
* AfterActionPatchUp: Watson for Holmes after the chase. Well, he is a doctor after all.
* AsideComment: In the closing narration, Watson speaks directly to the viewer when he offers his final summation of Holmes' character.
* BittersweetEnding: The "sweet" part comes in when Watson demonstrates just how much Holmes has meant to him.
* DisneyDeath: Holmes, although we don't know this for certain until "The Empty House" - apparently, Granada ended the episode with the possibility that Holmes was dead in case their ratings weren't high enough to continue the series.
* PrecisionFStrike: Holmes rarely swore in the canon, and Creator/JeremyBrett as Holmes swore even less. Thus, his ''spat-out'' "g-dd--n" after seeing the sniper across the street carries a ''motherload'' of weight.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A somewhat unusual example; Moriarty's plot to steal the Mona Lisa in order to sell multiple copies to several bidders (which does not appear in the original short story) seems to have been inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia a real-life plot]] to do exactly the same-- in '''1911''', 73 years before this series' adaptation of the story was released (the incident had previously been the basis for the 1979 ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath "City of Death"]]).
* TakingYouWithMe: When Moriarty literally ''pulls Holmes off the cliff with him'' in this version of the Reichenbach fight ("The Empty House" shows us an entirely different conclusion).
* AfterActionPatchUp: Watson for Holmes after the chase. Well, he is a doctor after all.
* AsideComment: In the closing narration, Watson speaks directly to the viewer when he offers his final summation of Holmes' character.
* BittersweetEnding: The "sweet" part comes in when Watson demonstrates just how much Holmes has meant to him.
* DisneyDeath: Holmes, although we don't know this for certain until "The Empty House" - apparently, Granada ended the episode with the possibility that Holmes was dead in case their ratings weren't high enough to continue the series.
* PrecisionFStrike: Holmes rarely swore in the canon, and Creator/JeremyBrett as Holmes swore even less. Thus, his ''spat-out'' "g-dd--n" after seeing the sniper across the street carries a ''motherload'' of weight.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: A somewhat unusual example; Moriarty's plot to steal the Mona Lisa in order to sell multiple copies to several bidders (which does not appear in the original short story) seems to have been inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Peruggia a real-life plot]] to do exactly the same-- in '''1911''', 73 years before this series' adaptation of the story was released (the incident had previously been the basis for the 1979 ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath "City of Death"]]).
* TakingYouWithMe: When Moriarty literally ''pulls Holmes off the cliff with him'' in this version of the Reichenbach fight ("The Empty House" shows us an entirely different conclusion).
* AnimalAssassin: Discussed when Watson and Lestrade note the fact that the murderer of Ronald Adair left no markings, sarcastically suggesting that the murderer was either a monkey or had wings.
* DeadHandShot: An inversion is used when Ronald Adair is seen sitting down with his hands on a desk, counting coins. Then a groan is heard, and Adair's hands disappear...
* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: This was the first episode to feature Edward Hardwicke as Watson. He reenacted a scene from "The Final Problem" in a flashback, consisting of Watson at the waterfall shouting to Holmes and reading his letter, which had been performed by David Burke.
* GoryDiscretionShot: From Watson's reaction, the victim is in an unsightly state at the beginning, but all we see is the bloody sheet covering him.
* HollywoodDarkness: The titular building is much more well lit than its ''pitch black'' book counterpart.
* ReactionShot: We never actually see the corpse, but from how everyone reacts to his fatal headshot, it's a horrible sight.
* DeadHandShot: An inversion is used when Ronald Adair is seen sitting down with his hands on a desk, counting coins. Then a groan is heard, and Adair's hands disappear...
* FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin: This was the first episode to feature Edward Hardwicke as Watson. He reenacted a scene from "The Final Problem" in a flashback, consisting of Watson at the waterfall shouting to Holmes and reading his letter, which had been performed by David Burke.
* GoryDiscretionShot: From Watson's reaction, the victim is in an unsightly state at the beginning, but all we see is the bloody sheet covering him.
* HollywoodDarkness: The titular building is much more well lit than its ''pitch black'' book counterpart.
* ReactionShot: We never actually see the corpse, but from how everyone reacts to his fatal headshot, it's a horrible sight.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original short story, Duke of Holdernesse is so desperate to avoid scandal that he allows his kidnapped son to stay at an inn for three days after he’s found before bringing him home and allows Hayes, one of the boy’s abductors, to flee justice. In the TV series, the Duke is also concerned about preventing scandal and demands the police to keep a low profile, but Sherlock Holmes talks the Duke into putting his son’s life over his reputation and allows greater freedom of movement for the police and Sherlock Holmes to continue his investigation.
* BastardBastard: James Wilder - the bastard son of the Duke of Holdernesse and a woman of lower status named Francesca. The Duke raises James like a son but never acknowledges his relation to him. As a result James kidnaps his younger legitimate brother Lord Saltire to force the Duke into making James his heir instead of his brother. In addition, the Duke reveals to Sherlock that James liked having power over him, and the Duke tried to change his son’s ways.
* DeathByAdaptation: James Wilder falls to his death. In the original short story “The Adventure of the Priory School,” he leaves for Australia.
* BastardBastard: James Wilder - the bastard son of the Duke of Holdernesse and a woman of lower status named Francesca. The Duke raises James like a son but never acknowledges his relation to him. As a result James kidnaps his younger legitimate brother Lord Saltire to force the Duke into making James his heir instead of his brother. In addition, the Duke reveals to Sherlock that James liked having power over him, and the Duke tried to change his son’s ways.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the original short story, Duke of Holdernesse is so desperate to avoid scandal that he allows his kidnapped son to stay at an inn for three days after he’s he's found before bringing him home and allows Hayes, one of the boy’s boy's abductors, to flee justice. In the TV series, the Duke is also concerned about preventing scandal and demands the police to keep a low profile, but Sherlock Holmes talks the Duke into putting his son’s son's life over his reputation and allows greater freedom of movement for the police and Sherlock Holmes to continue his investigation.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In both the original story and the episode, Holmes snarkily taunts the Duke, first over his reluctance for Holmes to investigate his son's disappearance, and later when demanding payment for solving the case before telling the Duke the solution. In the story, Holmes does so as a strategy, because [[spoiler:he has already deduced the Duke has recovered his son and is shielding the kidnapper]]. The episode changes this but keeps the snarking, making Holmes seem needlessly cruel.[[note]]However, Holmes' snarking could also be recontextualized as that he still knows that the Duke knows who the kidnapper is.[[/note]]
* BastardBastard: James Wilder - the bastard son of the Duke of Holdernesse and a woman of lower status named Francesca. The Duke raises James like a son but never acknowledges his relation to him. As a result James kidnaps his younger legitimate brother Lord Saltire to force the Duke into making James his heir instead of his brother. In addition, the Duke reveals to Sherlock that James liked having power over him, and the Duke tried to change hisson’s son's ways.
* DeadHandShot: Used when Holmes and Watson find Heidegger.
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* DeathByAdaptation: James Wilder falls to his death. In the original short story“The "The Adventure of the Priory School,” School", he leaves for Australia.Australia.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Heidegger is beaten to death by Reuben Hayes in the original short story. Here, he's strangled.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In both the original story and the episode, Holmes snarkily taunts the Duke, first over his reluctance for Holmes to investigate his son's disappearance, and later when demanding payment for solving the case before telling the Duke the solution. In the story, Holmes does so as a strategy, because [[spoiler:he has already deduced the Duke has recovered his son and is shielding the kidnapper]]. The episode changes this but keeps the snarking, making Holmes seem needlessly cruel.[[note]]However, Holmes' snarking could also be recontextualized as that he still knows that the Duke knows who the kidnapper is.[[/note]]
* BastardBastard: James Wilder - the bastard son of the Duke of Holdernesse and a woman of lower status named Francesca. The Duke raises James like a son but never acknowledges his relation to him. As a result James kidnaps his younger legitimate brother Lord Saltire to force the Duke into making James his heir instead of his brother. In addition, the Duke reveals to Sherlock that James liked having power over him, and the Duke tried to change his
* DeadHandShot: Used when Holmes and Watson find Heidegger.
-->'''Watson''': The German master.
-->'''Holmes''': What's left of him.
* DeathByAdaptation: James Wilder falls to his death. In the original short story
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Heidegger is beaten to death by Reuben Hayes in the original short story. Here, he's strangled.
* ChekhovsGun: Lady Hilda's card is later shown by Holmes to [=MacPherson=], the constable outside the Lucas house. When the constable recognizes it, Holmes ascertains that Lady Hilda was the one responsible for moving the carpet and stole the document he's been tracking.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Discussed as Holmes and Inspector Hopkins wonder why Lady Brackenstall wasn't killed like her husband.
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-->The criminal mind has its quirks of conscience and scruples, in that respect it is as individual and curious as any other. A noted miser may be secretly charitable, so this violent Randall may draw the line at murdering an unconscious woman.
* BilingualBonus: An interesting example - in the original story, Pietro Venucci is killed between scenes and his sister Lucrezia is mentioned once. In the Granada adaptation, Lucrezia has her own subplot, having several conversations with her father in Italian.
* CovertPervert: The episode opens with the Venucci patriarch watching a woman washing herself from across the street while his children argue.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: In the original story, Beppo had no surname. Here, in a FreezeFrameBonus of his execution notice in the final scene, his full name is Beppo Cicollini.
* CovertPervert: The episode opens with the Venucci patriarch watching a woman washing herself from across the street while his children argue.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: In the original story, Beppo had no surname. Here, in a FreezeFrameBonus of his execution notice in the final scene, his full name is Beppo Cicollini.
* AssholeVictim: Mortimer Tregennis, to the point where Holmes and Watson actually ''let his murderer go free.''
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode transforms the story from a villainy-free comedic romance into a very dark gothic horror piece involving multiple murders, insanity, imprisonment and physical and psychological torture.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The episode transforms the story from a villainy-free comedic romance into a very dark gothic horror piece involving multiple murders, insanity, imprisonment and physical and psychological torture.
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* RevengeByProxy: Years ago, Jonas’s fiancée ended their engagement after seeing how cruel Jonas was and marries a man named McFarlane. Fast forward to the present, Jonas frames her son John Hector McFarlane for his murder o of vengeance against his former fiancée.
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* RevengeByProxy: Years ago, Jonas’s fiancée ended their engagement after seeing how cruel Jonas was and marries a man named McFarlane. [=McFarlane=]. Fast forward to the present, Jonas frames her son John Hector McFarlane for [=McFarlane=]for his murder o of vengeance against his former fiancée.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the original canon, Sherlock is cheerful by the end of the story, joking around with Lestrade. In the TV series, Sherlock is somber by the ending and asks John not to chronicle the case because it is too painful.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed with Jack Ferguson. In the original canon, Jack poisons his baby brother out of sheer jealousy. In the TV series, Jack poisons the maid because he suffers from delusions of being a vampire stemming from a childhood accident.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed with Jack Ferguson. In the original canon, Jack poisons his baby brother out of sheer jealousy. In the TV series, Jack poisons the maid because he suffers from delusions of being a vampire stemming from a childhood accident.
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* PapaWolf: John Turner towards his daughter Alice. Since Alice was a baby, he has been blackmailed by Charles McCarthy who provisions for himself and his son James in exchange for keeping John’s sordid past a secret. John complied, but when Charles demands that Alice marries James, John absolutely refused. He originally planned to talk to Charles and resolve the matter peacefully, but when he overheard Charles and James arguing over Alice, he murdered Charles to protect Alice and maintain his freedom. When Sherlock Holmes confronts John with the truth, John begs Sherlock not to reveal to Alice the truth because it will break her heart.
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* PapaWolf: John Turner towards his daughter Alice. Since Alice was a baby, he has been blackmailed by Charles McCarthy [=McCarthy=] who provisions for himself and his son James in exchange for keeping John’s sordid past a secret. John complied, but when Charles demands that Alice marries James, John absolutely refused. He originally planned to talk to Charles and resolve the matter peacefully, but when he overheard Charles and James arguing over Alice, he murdered Charles to protect Alice and maintain his freedom. When Sherlock Holmes confronts John with the truth, John begs Sherlock not to reveal to Alice the truth because it will break her heart.
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* PapaWolf: John Turner towards his daughter Alice. Since Alice was a baby, he has been blackmailed by Charles McCarthy who provisions for himself and his son James in exchange for keeping John’s sordid past a secret. John complied, but when Charles demands that Alice marries James, John absolutely refused. He originally planned to talk to Charles and resolve the matter peacefully, but when he overheard Charles and James arguing over Alice, he murdered Charles to protect Alice and maintain his freedom. When Sherlock Holmes confronts John with the truth, John begs Sherlock not to reveal to Alice the truth because it will break her heart.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Adelbert Gruner. He murdered his previous wife (only being acquitted on a technicality), threw acid at Kitty, and is manipulating his current fiancée Violet de Merville into staying with him.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Adelbert Gruner. He murdered his previous wife (only being acquitted on a technicality), technicality) and threatened a woman to kill the only witness or suffer an acid attack, threw acid at Kitty, and is manipulating his current fiancée Violet de Merville into staying with him. him.
* PapaWolf: Violet’s father General de Merville is very concerned that his daughter will be in mortal danger if she marries Baron Adelbert Gruner and has her meet with Sherlock Holmes and Kitty Winters in hopes they can convince her to break off the engagement. In a way, Sherlock Holmes himself. As he explains to Violet, he does not have a daughter, but if he had one, he would be just as concerned for her as General de Merville is of Violet.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Downplayed. The newspaper greatly exaggerated Holmes’s injuries from an attack as near-fatal with Holmes falling gravely ill, but in actuality, they were only serious but survivable and no grave illness followed suit. Holmes merely stayed in bed for a few days to recover while taking advantage of the false report to retrieve Baron Adelbert Gruner’s book of conquests.
* PapaWolf: Violet’s father General de Merville is very concerned that his daughter will be in mortal danger if she marries Baron Adelbert Gruner and has her meet with Sherlock Holmes and Kitty Winters in hopes they can convince her to break off the engagement. In a way, Sherlock Holmes himself. As he explains to Violet, he does not have a daughter, but if he had one, he would be just as concerned for her as General de Merville is of Violet.
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Downplayed. The newspaper greatly exaggerated Holmes’s injuries from an attack as near-fatal with Holmes falling gravely ill, but in actuality, they were only serious but survivable and no grave illness followed suit. Holmes merely stayed in bed for a few days to recover while taking advantage of the false report to retrieve Baron Adelbert Gruner’s book of conquests.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Downplayed. Baron Adelbert Gruner is a shameless philanderer and a murderer both in the original source material and the Granada adaptation, but in the original source material, he never threw oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid) at his ex-mistress Kitty Winters. In the TV adaptation, he did which permanently scarred her.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Adelbert Gruner. He murdered his previous wife (only being acquitted on a technicality), threw acid at Kitty, and is manipulating his current fiancée Violet de Merville into staying with him.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Adelbert Gruner. He murdered his previous wife (only being acquitted on a technicality), threw acid at Kitty, and is manipulating his current fiancée Violet de Merville into staying with him.
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* BastardBastard: James Wilder - the bastard son of the Duke of Holdernesse and a woman of lower status named Francesca. The Duke raises James like a son but never acknowledges his relation to him. As a result James kidnaps his younger legitimate brother Lord Saltire to force the Duke into making James his heir instead of his brother. In addition, the Duke reveals to Sherlock that James liked having power over him, and the Duke tried to change his son’s ways.
* DeathByAdaptation: James Wilder falls to his death. In the original short story “The Adventure of the Priory School,” he leaves for Australia.
* BastardBastard: James Wilder - the bastard son of the Duke of Holdernesse and a woman of lower status named Francesca. The Duke raises James like a son but never acknowledges his relation to him. As a result James kidnaps his younger legitimate brother Lord Saltire to force the Duke into making James his heir instead of his brother. In addition, the Duke reveals to Sherlock that James liked having power over him, and the Duke tried to change his son’s ways.
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* FakingTheDead: Jonas Oldacre fakes his murder and with plans to start a new life under a new name.
* RevengeByProxy: Years ago, Jonas’s fiancée ended their engagement after seeing how cruel Jonas was and marries a man named McFarlane. Fast forward to the present, Jonas frames her son John Hector McFarlane for his murder o of vengeance against his former fiancée.
* RevengeByProxy: Years ago, Jonas’s fiancée ended their engagement after seeing how cruel Jonas was and marries a man named McFarlane. Fast forward to the present, Jonas frames her son John Hector McFarlane for his murder o of vengeance against his former fiancée.
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* AssholeVictim: Inverted. At first Colonel James Barclay seems like a good man and a respected soldier who was tragically murdered. Then it’s revealed he set up an UriahGambit to get rid of his comrade Corporal Henry Wood so he could marry his girlfriend Nancy, and Colonel Barclay’s death was accidental. Nobody sheds a tear for Colonel Barclay, especially not his wife.
* UriahGambit: Then Sergeant Barclay purposely gave Corporal Henry Wood bad instructions for escaping their camp, leading to his capture and torture for years, hoping he would die. This is was so Sergeant Barclay could marry Nancy who was dating Nancy at the time. It was even {{Discussed}} when Nancy cries out the name David, liking James Barclay to King David who sent [[TropeNamer Uriah]] to the frontlines in hopes that he would die and David could marry his widow.
* UriahGambit: Then Sergeant Barclay purposely gave Corporal Henry Wood bad instructions for escaping their camp, leading to his capture and torture for years, hoping he would die. This is was so Sergeant Barclay could marry Nancy who was dating Nancy at the time. It was even {{Discussed}} when Nancy cries out the name David, liking James Barclay to King David who sent [[TropeNamer Uriah]] to the frontlines in hopes that he would die and David could marry his widow.
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* ChristmasEpisode: Played with. "The Blue Carbuncle" takes place on Christmas Eve and various characters including Holmes and Watson are seen celebrating the holiday or talking about their Christmas celebrations. However, the plot has nothing to do with the holiday except for the titular blue carbuncle being hidden inside a Christmas goose. Remove Christmas and change the hiding place to another livestock, and the plot will remain largely the same.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Sophy Kratides in the original story avenges her brother's death in the end. Whereas here she still remains loyal to her boyfriend even after learning that he killed her brother, which causes Sherlock to remark that she is cold and without compassion.
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* ChristmasEpisode: Played with. "The Blue Carbuncle" takes place on Christmas Eve and various characters including Holmes and Watson are seen celebrating the holiday or talking about their Christmas celebrations. However, the plot has nothing to do with the holiday except for the titular blue carbuncle being hidden inside a Christmas goose. Remove Christmas and change the hiding place to another livestock, and the plot will remain largely the same.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Sophy Kratides in the original story avenges her brother's death in the end. Whereas here she still remains loyal to her boyfriend even after learning that he killed her brother, which causes Sherlock to remark that she is cold and without compassion.
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!!Episodes
[[AC:''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'']]
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!!!First Series (1984)
# A Scandal in Bohemia
# The Dancing Men
# The Naval Treaty
# The Solitary Cyclist
# The Crooked Man
# The Speckled Band
# The Blue Carbuncle
!!!Second Series (1985)
# The Copper Beeches
# The Greek Interpreter
# The Norwood Builder
# The Resident Patient
# The Red Headed League
# The Final Problem
[[AC:''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'']]
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!!!First Series (1986)
# The Empty House
# The Priory School
# The Second Stain
# The Musgrave Ritual
# The Abbey Grange
# The Man With the Twisted Lip
# The Six Napoleons
# The Sign of Four (feature length adaptation, 1987)
!!!Second Series (1988)
# The Devil's Foot
# Silver Blaze
# Wisteria Lodge
# The Bruce-Partington Plans
# The Hound of the Baskervilles (feature length adaptation, 1988)
[[AC:''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1991)
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# The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
# The Problem of Thor Bridge
# Shoscombe Old Place
# The Boscombe Valley Mystery
# The Illustrious Client
# The Creeping Man
[[AC:Feature-length Episodes]]
# The Master Blackmailer (1992)
# The Last Vampyre (1993)
# The Eligible Bachelor (1993)
[[AC:''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1994)
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# The Three Gables
# The Dying Detective
# The Golden Pince-Nez
# The Red Circle
# The Mazarin Stone
# The Cardboard Box
[[AC:''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'']]
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!!!First Series (1984)
# A Scandal in Bohemia
# The Dancing Men
# The Naval Treaty
# The Solitary Cyclist
# The Crooked Man
# The Speckled Band
# The Blue Carbuncle
!!!Second Series (1985)
# The Copper Beeches
# The Greek Interpreter
# The Norwood Builder
# The Resident Patient
# The Red Headed League
# The Final Problem
[[AC:''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'']]
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!!!First Series (1986)
# The Empty House
# The Priory School
# The Second Stain
# The Musgrave Ritual
# The Abbey Grange
# The Man With the Twisted Lip
# The Six Napoleons
# The Sign of Four (feature length adaptation, 1987)
!!!Second Series (1988)
# The Devil's Foot
# Silver Blaze
# Wisteria Lodge
# The Bruce-Partington Plans
# The Hound of the Baskervilles (feature length adaptation, 1988)
[[AC:''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1991)
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# The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
# The Problem of Thor Bridge
# Shoscombe Old Place
# The Boscombe Valley Mystery
# The Illustrious Client
# The Creeping Man
[[AC:Feature-length Episodes]]
# The Master Blackmailer (1992)
# The Last Vampyre (1993)
# The Eligible Bachelor (1993)
[[AC:''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1994)
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# The Dying Detective
# The Golden Pince-Nez
# The Red Circle
# The Mazarin Stone
# The Cardboard Box
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!!!First Series (1984)
# A Scandal in Bohemia
# The Dancing Men
# The Naval Treaty
# The Solitary Cyclist
# The Crooked Man
# The Speckled Band
# The Blue Carbuncle
!!!Second Series (1985)
# The Copper Beeches
# The Greek Interpreter
# The Norwood Builder
# The Resident Patient
# The Red Headed League
# The Final Problem
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!!!First Series (1986)
# The Empty House
# The Priory School
# The Second Stain
# The Musgrave Ritual
# The Abbey Grange
# The Man With the Twisted Lip
# The Six Napoleons
# The Sign of Four (feature length adaptation, 1987)
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# The Devil's Foot
# Silver Blaze
# Wisteria Lodge
# The Bruce-Partington Plans
# The Hound of the Baskervilles (feature length adaptation, 1988)
[[AC:''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1991)
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# The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
# The Problem of Thor Bridge
# Shoscombe Old Place
# The Boscombe Valley Mystery
# The Illustrious Client
# The Creeping Man
[[AC:Feature-length Episodes]]
# The Master Blackmailer (1992)
# The Last Vampyre (1993)
# The Eligible Bachelor (1993)
[[AC:''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1994)
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# The Dying Detective
# The Golden Pince-Nez
# The Red Circle
# The Mazarin Stone
# The Cardboard Box
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!!!First Series (1984)
# A Scandal in Bohemia
# The Dancing Men
# The Naval Treaty
# The Solitary Cyclist
# The Crooked Man
# The Speckled Band
# The Blue Carbuncle
!!!Second Series (1985)
# The Copper Beeches
# The Greek Interpreter
# The Norwood Builder
# The Resident Patient
# The Red Headed League
# The Final Problem
[[AC:''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'']]
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!!!First Series (1986)
# The Empty House
# The Priory School
# The Second Stain
# The Musgrave Ritual
# The Abbey Grange
# The Man With the Twisted Lip
# The Six Napoleons
# The Sign of Four (feature length adaptation, 1987)
!!!Second Series (1988)
# The Devil's Foot
# Silver Blaze
# Wisteria Lodge
# The Bruce-Partington Plans
# The Hound of the Baskervilles (feature length adaptation, 1988)
[[AC:''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1991)
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# The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
# The Problem of Thor Bridge
# Shoscombe Old Place
# The Boscombe Valley Mystery
# The Illustrious Client
# The Creeping Man
[[AC:Feature-length Episodes]]
# The Master Blackmailer (1992)
# The Last Vampyre (1993)
# The Eligible Bachelor (1993)
[[AC:''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1994)
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# The Three Gables
# The Dying Detective
# The Golden Pince-Nez
# The Red Circle
# The Mazarin Stone
# The Cardboard Box
[[AC:''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'']]
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!!!First Series (1984)
# A Scandal in Bohemia
# The Dancing Men
# The Naval Treaty
# The Solitary Cyclist
# The Crooked Man
# The Speckled Band
# The Blue Carbuncle
!!!Second Series (1985)
# The Copper Beeches
# The Greek Interpreter
# The Norwood Builder
# The Resident Patient
# The Red Headed League
# The Final Problem
[[AC:''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'']]
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!!!First Series (1986)
# The Empty House
# The Priory School
# The Second Stain
# The Musgrave Ritual
# The Abbey Grange
# The Man With the Twisted Lip
# The Six Napoleons
# The Sign of Four (feature length adaptation, 1987)
!!!Second Series (1988)
# The Devil's Foot
# Silver Blaze
# Wisteria Lodge
# The Bruce-Partington Plans
# The Hound of the Baskervilles (feature length adaptation, 1988)
[[AC:''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1991)
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# The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax
# The Problem of Thor Bridge
# Shoscombe Old Place
# The Boscombe Valley Mystery
# The Illustrious Client
# The Creeping Man
[[AC:Feature-length Episodes]]
# The Master Blackmailer (1992)
# The Last Vampyre (1993)
# The Eligible Bachelor (1993)
[[AC:''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'']] (1994)
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# The Three Gables
# The Dying Detective
# The Golden Pince-Nez
# The Red Circle
# The Mazarin Stone
# The Cardboard Box
