Conan Doyle

Name: Conan Doyle
Director: Brian Farnham
Released: 1972-12-12
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Nigel Davenport, Maria Aitken, Alison Leggatt, John Nettleton, Bernard Brown

S1 E4 December 12, 1972 1h 30m

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Overview

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, has his own mystery to solve when he answers a call from George Edalji, who claims to have been falsely convicted of mutilating animals and imprisoned. Edalji had been accused in a series of anonymous letters and Conan Doyle finds that the police seem to have reinterpreted evidence to fit the accused's movement. His spirited defense of Edalji in a newspaper article leads to friction with the powers that be, particularly in the police.