Sherlock Holmes with Peter Cushing - The Blue Carbuncle
Episode Details
First aired: December 23, 1968.(TV series 1964-1968, UK, Horror|Crime|Drama, color)
Director: Bill Bain
Writers: Stanley Miller (dramatisation), Arthur Conan Doyle (story "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle") (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Stars: Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock, Madge Ryan
Storyline: A blue carbuncle, a valuable jewel, is stolen from Lady Morcar, and an innocent workman charged and remanded in the run-up to Christmas. Holmes gets a visitor, a gentleman who belongs to a Christmas Club putting money by to purchase a goose for his Christmas dinner. Someone has tried to steal his goose. Another member of the club finds the carbuncle in the goose he has bought. Who put it there? Holmes must find out if one family is to avoid a miserable Yuletide.
