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Conan Doyle's duo investigate a missing schoolboy and his art master. With Norman Shelley as Watson. From 1962.

Investigating the disappearance of young lord from his school, the great detective ponders upon the hoof-prints of cattle on a moor where there are no cattle...

Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale was first published in 1904 in ‘The Return of Sherlock Holmes’.

Adapted by Michael Hardwick.

Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson …. Norman Shelley
Dr Huxtable …. Eric Anderson
Roberts …. Peter Hutton
Reuben Hayes …. Victor Lucas
The Duke of Holdernesse …. Wilfred Grantham
James Wilder …. David Spenser

Producer: Robin Midgley.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1962.

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30 minutes

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