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5. The Crooked Man
Probing a military murder, the sleuth exposes a cryptic connection to Colonial India. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thriller from 1966.
Probing a military murder, the great detective exposes a cryptic connection to Colonial India.
Starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley.
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Doctor Watson …. Norman Shelley
Corporal Wood ...... Allan McClelland
Sergeant Barclay ...... Douglas Hankin
Major Murphy ...... Alan Dudley
Eva Stuart … Miss Morrison
William Flinn ...... William Eedle
Jane Stewart ...... Beth Boyd
Producer: Martyn C Webster
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1966.
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