The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"The Case of Lady Beryl"
Originally aired October 25, 1954.

Lady Beryl admits to a crime she did not commit. Holmes not only reveals the true murderer, but Lady Beryl's motive for lying about the crime.


This movie is part of the collection: Classic TV

Director: Jack Gage
Producer: Sheldon Reynolds
Audio/Visual: mono, b/w
Language: English
Keywords: Sherlock Holmes; classic television; Sheldon Reynolds; mystery

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: richgoup - - February 22, 2012
Subject: The Case of Lady Beryl (Sherlock Holmes).
Season 1, episode 2.
Original air date: 25 October 1954.
Cast: Ronald Howard (Sherlock Holmes), H. Marion Crawford (Dr. John H. Watson), Paulette Goddard (Lady Nina Beryl), Archie Dundan (Inspector Lestrade), Peter Copley (Lord George Beryl), K. Richard Larke (Bobby) and Duncan Elliott (Ross).
Paulette`s Goddard TV debut.
From IMDB.
Very entertaining episode.

Reviewer: porterville - - October 26, 2010
Subject: An Excellent Sherlock Holmes
An exceptionally good half-hour program. The regular cast was ably abetted by a good supporting cast,which included Paulette Goddard. The plot was interesting and progressed at an acceptable rate. A pleasure to watch!

Reviewer: dymajet - - February 26, 2009
Subject: Classic TV - A must for Holmes Fans
this site introduced me to Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes and I shall be for ever grateful. After watching the six episodes available here, I treated myself to all 37 episodes made on a DVD collection!!

The TV series was never shown in the UK until a few years ago when a satellite channel called Bonanza continually repeated 8 episodes on a daily basis before going bust, They have recently reappeared as the Young@heart channel, repeating the same 8 episodes.

Howard is excellent as Holmes and his Dr Watson is almost as funny as Nigel Bruce was with Basil Rathbone. Archie Duncan (Little John from the 50s British Robin Hood TV series) plays a brilliant, if somewhat grumpy, Inspector Lestrade. The story lines are a little stilted and very dated but all in all, these shows are television history at its best.

Five Stars!!!!!

Reviewer: jammyb"stard - - February 22, 2009
Subject: Caught Red Faced.
Nice cosy little short. The relationships between Lestrade, Holmes and Watson bears little resemblence to the one they share in the stories by Conan Doyle and other screen intepretations. I must say though didnt like the way Watson was portrayed as a slow blithering idiot even more than Nigel Bruces portrayl in the Universal series. Its quite funny to watch the secretary of Lord Beryl doing some extreme "Face Acting" for the camera. Worth a half hour of anyones time to see that alone.

Reviewer: aratbag - - February 22, 2009
Subject: Timeless
A very good vintage production of Sherlock Holmes which stands the test of time in its own right.
A short , 25 ish minute production but very well made.
Good enough to be shown on one of the UK dodgy sat. channels in February 09.
I intend to download what is available of these.

Reviewer: bmovienut - - May 16, 2008
Subject: Excellent
I believe this was the only American television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes - although filmed in France and starred Leslie Howard's son, Ronald. Thanks for the uploads!

Credits

Produced and Written by Sheldon Reynolds
Directed by Jack Gage

Starring:
Ronald Howard ............. Sherlock Holmes
Howard Marion-Crawford .... Dr. John H. Watson (as H. Marion Crawford)
Archie Duncan ............. Inspector Lestrade

Guest Cast:
Paulette Goddard .......... Lady Beryl
Peter Copley .............. Lord Beryl
Richard Larke ............. Bobby (Sgt. Wilkins) (as K. Richard Larke)
Duncan Elliott ............ Ross