Theodore's World

Starring: George Reeves, Jack Klugman, Mary Sinclair

When an actor goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras he falls in love with a beautiful woman,
but a gambling boss warns him that the girl is trouble.

Stars: Charles Bronson, Peggy Ann Garner, Irene Hervey
Director: Arnold Laven

The coddled daughter of a judge befriends a broke young man with a reform school past. Trouble begins when she gives him an expensive watch as a gift, and a detective thinks he stole it.

Stars: Charles Boyer, Jeanette Nolan, Stacy Harris
Director: Robert Florey

A mildly brain-injured war hero lives with his greedy family. All he wants is his own house, while all they want is to preserve their failing wealth. When his younger brother kills a man over a gambling debt, the family convinces him that he did it.

THE CASE OF THE UNLUCKY GAMBLER: Young Andrew Fenwick hires Holmes to find his father, Herbert, who’s been missing for three weeks. Holmes and Watson discover he was a gambler who needed to hide from his impatient debtors. To catch Mr. Fenwick and bring him back to his family, Holmes get Lestrade to make a false arrest during a stakeout at one of the man’s favorite pubs.

THE CASE OF THE DIAMOND TOOTH: Watson’s examination of a body found in the Thames reveals he was crushed to death and missing an eye tooth. The doctor had just found a lost diamond tooth by the river. Believing the man was from South America, Holmes and Watson disguise themselves as sailors head to a bar down at the docks. There they encounter the killer and his bone-breaking method of murder.

THE CASE OF THE NEUROTIC DETECTIVE: Watson is alarmed by Holmes stranger-than-usual behavior: hiding a necklace in his humidor, taking a date to a formal affair and refusing to help Lestrade capture the criminals stealing England’s state secrets and valuables. After employing disguises and old-fashioned snooping, Watson convinces Lestrade that Holmes is the evil genius behind all the thefts.

THE CASE OF THE ROYAL MURDER: While visiting King Conrad in his Balkan nation, his highness requests Holmes and Watson to prove his innocence when Prince Stephan of a neighboring country dies suddenly at dinner. The circumstantial clues implicate the king, so he has the two tossed into a dungeon cell. Princess Antonia, widow of the prince, attracts suspicion because of her previous love affair with Conrad.

THE CASE OF THE BAKER STREET BACHELORS: Candidate Jeffery Bourne is being blackmailed with false abuse charges by a woman he met through a marriage bureau. Holmes and a reluctant Watson investigate the agency by posing as lonely hearts, with Holmes claiming to be a very rich one. As expected, he’s promptly blackmailed as well, but is unexpectedly tossed into jail. It’s up to Watson and Lestrade to burglarize the bureau and find some evidence.