Sherlock Holmes with Peter Cushing - The Boscombe Valley Mystery
Episode Details
First aired: October 14, 1968.(TV series 1964-1968, UK, Horror|Crime|Drama, color)
Director: Viktors Ritelis
Writers: Arthur Conan Doyle (characters) (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), Bruce Stewart (dramatisation)
Stars: Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock, John Tate
Storyline: The dead body of grumpy Bill McCarthy is found, brained with a rock, and his son James, with whom he did not get on, is arrested. James' girl-friend approaches Holmes, who discovers that Bill's dying words were nothing to do with "a rat" but concerned with the days of the Australian Gold Rush, decades earlier.
