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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson is a series of five films produced by Lenfilm for the Soviet Central Television, split into eleven episodes, starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr. Watson. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov and filmed in Russia (the then Soviet Union) between 1979 and 1986, and the series was one of the most successful in the history of Russian television.
The first part of the Soviet series of television films based on the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes, filmed in 1979. The film consists of two parts and was filmed based on the story "The Speckled Band" (1st part "The Acquaintance") and the novella "A Study in Scarlet" (beginning of the 1st part and the 2nd part "Bloody Inscription").
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
The heroes of the series are employees of a very modest St. Petersburg newspaper "Russian Horror Stories", who write about various anomalies and miracles.
Holmes receives a message from Inspector Gregson about a strange case in an abandoned house on Brixton Road: the body of an elderly American was found there, and the word "Revenge" is written in blood on the wall.
Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
A high-schooler named Valentin Kuzyayev is invited to appear on a TV show about youth. When he is given a questionnaire, Valentin finds himself unable to answer the simplest questions. To sort himself out, he starts to keep a diary.
The film's protagonists are speed skaters. The competition scenes feature champions and medalists of the USSR, World, European, and Olympic championships: Ants Antson, Irina Egorova, Viktor Kosichkin, and Valentina Stenina.
Between the king and the soldier Ivan a serious dispute occurs. A seasoned soldier, of course, takes precedence over the quarrelsome sovereign. But until then happen in the Kingdom a lot of unusual and fun…
In the village of Timokhino, an explosion occurred due to the designers' oversights regarding the gas pipeline, resulting in fatalities, while the designers did not admit any guilt.
There is a noisy bazaar inconspicuous shop with a sign "Smart Things". And the goods in it completely wonderful no ordinary thing to find. Anyone who would go to the store, they can buy there thing and pay high seller does not require. That's just not everyone will be able to such curiosities to really take advantage of.
An attack is carried out on the accountant of a research institute, and a large sum of money is stolen. The criminal investigation colonel not only solves the crime but also investigates its motives.
Rare materials go missing from the archive. A conflict arises between two researchers—Ozerov and Rozhkin—over these missing materials.
