Holmes and Watson find themselves running afoul of the law as they try to help an up and coming politician who is being blackmailed by a marriage broker. The scheme is to set up rich or powerful men with potential brides, create some ruse like battery or assault, and then blackmail them. Holmes and Watson go undercover and Holmes ends up in the slammer. Watson and LeStrade are forced into taking over the case because an overzealous police lieutenant won't let him out of jail. It has amusing results. However, the whole plot is so silly. Obviously, this was TV fluff for the time, but for clever people, these guys get themselves into the most ridiculous situations. How about a confederate, watching out for things, witnessing if you will. Instead they end up in the same trap the young politician is. Without some clever intervention, there would be no arrests. It is a treat watching Watson squirm in front of his prospective "bride."
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series)
The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors (1955)
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The Case of the Baker Street Bachelors
Prismark1011 May 2024
A would be politician finds himself being blackmailed. So he consults Sherlock Holmes.
He went to see a marriage broker. As the man has good prospects, he was matched up with a suitable bride. Only later to find himself embroiled in a potential scandal and now he faces blackmail demands.
So Sherlock Holmes takes Dr Watson along to the same marriage broker. Holmes makes out he is a man of means and they are immediately introduced to ladies.
On a later date at a tea rooms. A man walks in claiming that he is the husband of one of the ladies and that Holmes is trying to break up the marriage.
Holmes is arrested and the overzealous Inspector Mason will not let him out of jail. Despite protests that he is on an important case.
So it is up to Dr Watson and Inspector Lestrade to break up the blackmailing scammers.
An interesting story goes downhill very quickly. It gets silly and Inspector Mason has no idea the importance of Sherlock Holmes. Or that the marriage bureau is a sham. There is a race against time to clear the would be politician's name.
He went to see a marriage broker. As the man has good prospects, he was matched up with a suitable bride. Only later to find himself embroiled in a potential scandal and now he faces blackmail demands.
So Sherlock Holmes takes Dr Watson along to the same marriage broker. Holmes makes out he is a man of means and they are immediately introduced to ladies.
On a later date at a tea rooms. A man walks in claiming that he is the husband of one of the ladies and that Holmes is trying to break up the marriage.
Holmes is arrested and the overzealous Inspector Mason will not let him out of jail. Despite protests that he is on an important case.
So it is up to Dr Watson and Inspector Lestrade to break up the blackmailing scammers.
An interesting story goes downhill very quickly. It gets silly and Inspector Mason has no idea the importance of Sherlock Holmes. Or that the marriage bureau is a sham. There is a race against time to clear the would be politician's name.
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