It is 1900 and Professor James Moriarty (Anthony Andrews) is led to the gallows. The crowd cheered and Inspector Lestrade looked on with approval. Suddenly, smoke bombs exploded and the hangman fainted on the scaffold. When the smoke cleared, Moriarty was gone! Sherlock Holmes (Edward Woodward) blamed Lestrade for the escape. Now Holmes would have to track down the villain again. Before he could do so, he and Watson (John Hillerman) were summoned to the Diogenese Club to see Holmes' brother, Mycroft. Sensitive information was being leaked from Mycroft's office and he wanted Sherlock to find the leaker. Sherlock declined, stating that his efforts to find Moriarty were more important. Of course, the two cases proved to be the same case.
Edward Woodward is passable as Holmes, though he is too old. Holmes should be around 45 in 1900 whereas Woodward was 60. Hillerman is a standard Watson. He's not an oaf like Nigel Bruce but he's not much help either. Anthony Edwards is much too young to be Moriarty, nearly 20 years Woodward's junior. He oozes villainy in every scene. He is oh so villainous. Ugh. Maybe dial that back a bit. The rest of the cast is serviceable, but unremarkable.
It is merely okay. Not bad but not good either. Skip.
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