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The Illustrious Client ()

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  • Season 1
  • Episode 5
Violet Merville is determined to marry the man she loves, who Holmes knows has already murdered one wife.
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Sherlock Holmes
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Dr. Watson
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Baron Gruner
Carol Noakes ...
Baroness Gruner
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Sir James Damery
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Miss Violet Merville
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Mrs. Hudson
John Pickles ...
Jarvis
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Kitty Winter
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Shinwell Johnson
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First Thug

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Tim Sullivan

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Arthur Conan Doyle ... (by) (as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
 
Robin Chapman ... (dramatised by)
 
Arthur Conan Doyle ... (short story "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client" from volume "The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes") (uncredited)

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Michael Cox ... producer

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Patrick Gowers

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Lawrence Jones ... director of photography

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Clive Maltby

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Ian Mackie ... assistant film editor
Stephen Volp ... assistant film editor (as Steve Volp)

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Carolyn Bartlett

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Alan Price

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Esther Dean

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Sue Milton ... makeup supervisor
Susan Parkinson ... make-up assistant (as Sue Parkinson)

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Roy Jackson ... production manager

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Gordon Pleasant ... second assistant
Graham Wild ... first assistant

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Keith Aldred ... graphic designer
David Butterworth ... design assistant
Eric Crompton ... chargehand asm
David Round ... production buyer

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David Eve ... boom operator
Nick Steer ... sound recordist
John Whitworth ... dubbing mixer

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Andy Bradford ... fight arranger

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Mike Fisher ... grips
Steve Oxley ... focus puller
Tim Pollard ... camera operator
David Ratcliffe ... lighting gaffer

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Louise Pipping ... wardrobe supervisor

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Lynne Marriott ... location manager

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Craig Dickson ... script editor
Sue Pritchard ... continuity

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Sue Pritchard ... production assistant
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Plot Summary

Holmes is hired by Sir James Damery to do anything he can to stop the forthcoming marriage of Violet Merville, daughter of a famed General, to Baron Gruner, a known philanderer and womanizer who has been known to seduce - and perhaps even dispose of - well-to-do women on the Continent. The young woman is madly in love with him and will hear nothing against him. It's also apparent that Sir James is acting as an intermediary for someone else, whom he refuses to reveal. The Baron is soon onto Holmes' attempt to discredit him and he is not above hiring ruffians to get rid of troublemakers. Homes recruits one of the Baron's discarded women to try and convince Miss Merville of her ill-advised romance but it is only when he learns that Gruner has a diary does he find the weapon he needs. Written by garykmcd

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  • The Illustrious Client (United Kingdom)
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Trivia Repeated references are made to "oil of vitriol." This is the old name for sulfuric acid, in this case thrown in the faces of women to disfigure them. See more »
Goofs In one scene, Baron Gruner is listening to a recording of a baritone singing the "Madamina" aria from Mozart's "Don Giovanni", and the singer is backed by a full orchestra. Such recordings were impossible to make in the nineteenth century, when the story takes place. Until the advent of electrical recording (i.e., using microphones) in 1925, singers and instrumentalists had to stand around a large horn to make recordings, and the use of a large orchestra would have distorted the sound. Special "chamber music" arrangements had to be made of orchestral pieces to prevent distortion and overload. Recordings were made on wax cylinders then, not discs, and the quality of sound was far worse than demonstrated in this episode. See more »
Movie Connections Version of The Illustrious Client (1965). See more »
Quotes [first lines]
Baron Gruner: Oh. Oh, my dear. My dearest. I warned you; I said, "Do not go too near the edge."
Baroness Gruner: Why did you push me, Baron?
Baron Gruner: My dear wife... you, you're dreaming.
Baroness Gruner: No. Dying. Dying.
Baron Gruner: Oh, my darling.
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