The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976)
1h 14m
Running Time
June 16, 1976Release Date
The Return of the World's Greatest Detective (1976)
1h 14m
Running Time
June 16, 1976Release Date
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Plot.
A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.
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The Return of the World's Greatest Detective is a 1976 American made-for-television mystery comedy film starring Larry Hagman as an inept motorcycle cop named Sherman Holmes, who, after sustaining a head injury, became convinced that he was actually Sherlock Holmes and as a result of his injury acquired formidable powers of observation and deduction. Dean Hargrove and Roland Kibbee wrote the film's story directly for television, intending it to be a pilot for a series that would have been titled Alias Sherlock Holmes. The film originally aired on NBC on June 16, 1976.
The genres into which The Return of the World's Greatest Detective fits are comedy-drama and mystery-suspense.