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Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century - Season 1

Series: Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century
4.2
(75)
Episodes
26
Rating
TVY7
Year
1998
Language
English

About

The world's greatest detective is back -- and this time, he's fighting crime in the brave new world of the 22nd Century! Thanks to Inspector Beth Lestrade of New Scotland Yard, Sherlock Holmes is brought back from the dead. His body is rejuvenated to that of a 25 year-old to help Lestrade battle an unprecedented crime wave wreaking havoc on this peaceful future. To assist Holmes, the personality of his loyal friend and companion, Dr. John Watson, is programmed into the brain of an android. They quickly lock wits once again with the consummate criminal: Professor James Moriarty, the only adversary Holmes ever considered an equal. Like Holmes, he's been brought back to life by 22nd Century technology. Unlike Holmes, Moriarty is determined to dominate the crime-free world of the future.

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Episodes

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1. The Fall And Rise Of Sherlock Holmes

30m

In the 22nd Century, Inspector Beth Lestrade believes that New London's fool-proof crime control process, called crypnosis, has been sabotaged by the criminal genius Professor James Moriarty…who has been dead for over a century! To prove her theory and catch the crook, Lestrade brings back to life the only man smart enough to have ever defeated Moriarty: Sherlock Holmes. Holmes tracks the villain, finally confronting him in the heart of the computer itself! Though the system gets back online, Moriarty manages to elude them. For now.

2. The Crime Machine

30m

When New London is caught in the grip of a massive crime wave, Holmes uses his eyes and intellect to deduce that the heat of the criminal activity lies in the city's long abandoned underground. With the guidance of the street-wise Baker Street Irregulars, Holmes, Watson and Lestrade plunge into the shadowy depths to foil the plot, but lose Watson when their wild escape ends with a train crash into the Thames. Only then does Holmes realize that the robot is becoming a true friend.

3. The Hounds Of The Baskervilles

30m

On the moon, in the domed Galileo City, an old legend appears to be true when three children go missing and eerie howling can be heard echoing throughout the resort. But Sherlock Holmes suspects there is an all too human reason behind this supernatural phenomenon. His sleuthing quickly dispatches the mythical beast for what it is: trickery created by Moriarty to vacate the moon of its tourists so that its powerful defense and life support systems would be his from which to rule the earth. Though Moriarty escapes, Holmes and Lestrade cleverly foil the evil plot and save the day, the moon, and the earth!

4. The Resident Patient

30m

When Lestrade corners the notorious Fenwick and his crew in an abandoned building, all she finds are innocent, mild-mannered citizens. Confounded, she calls in Sherlock Holmes to investigate. He quickly deduces that the citizens are indeed the culprits… and that Moriarty has forced a renowned plastic surgeon to use his DNA Washer device to completely alter their appearances! Using the device on himself, a disguised Holmes foils Moriarty's evil plot to switch the leaders of the free world with his own look-alike henchmen!

5. The Scales Of Justice

30m

Someone has robbed the supposedly impenetrable safe room at Genie Tech. In the locked room – with no window or other way out - Sherlock Holmes discovers tiny scales which prove to belong to a mysterious unknown species of snake. Is this the work of the eminent herpetologist Grimsby Roylott who is trying desperately to keep the old London Zoo afloat? Or, as Watson suspects, is it the work of Forest Chapman, the proprietor of the spooky Mythological Museum where monstrous hybrid creatures are created and displayed to the delight of 22nd Century kids? Holmes looks past the obvious to discover that someone has mixed his own DNA with that of a python in order to commit the daring robberies. Holmes must then wrestle with the snake-man for his very life to win the day!

6. The Five Orange Pips

30m

In seclusion at his remote country estate, radical anti-tech group leader Joseph Openshaw blacks out after opening a mysterious envelope containing only a cryptic note and five orange seeds. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers that the pips are poisoned and that Joseph was targeted because he – along with his brother Elias – had invented a cyber nest that could wipe out all the computers they despise forever. Though the two brothers stopped before unleashing it, Holmes now finds that Moriarty wants to use the invention to destroy New Scotland Yard's databanks and hold the world hostage. In order to get the antidote for the poison, Holmes gives Moriarty the cyber nest… but not before knowing that it is useless. All are saved and Watson helps Joseph's young son, John, learn that the true value of someone is what's in their heart.

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