"Sherlock Holmes" was a British television series produced by Granada Television and broadcast from 1984 to 1994. Some episodes were broadcast under the title "The Return of Sherlock Holmes."
The series starred Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson.
This episode is titled "The Empty House" and was first broadcast on July 9, 1986.
It is set in 1894, three years after Sherlock Holmes disappeared at Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls in 1891. Dr. Watson and every one else had believed that Holmes was dead. Dr. Watson is working as a police surgeon when Holmes reappears at his office. He explains that he has been travelling and returned to find the killer of a wealthy young Englishman. Several people look at a desk which belonged to the dead man. On top of the desk are coins, including British gold sovereigns and silver half crowns.

A Swiss mountain peak is shown.

Dr. Watson sees Sherlock Holmes fighting with Professor Moriarty and both of them go over the falls.

Dr. Watson has opened an office in London and is working as a police surgeon.

He is called to examine the body of a young Englishman, Ronald Adair, who has been shot. Police Inspector Lestrade is in charge of the case and both men accompanied by other policemen examine Adair's room.

Gold and silver coins appear on the desk.
They appear to be British sovereigns and half crowns of the period and most likely would have a portrait of Queen Victoria on them. A flashback scene shows the desk when Adair was still alive.

The same coins appear.

Both men wish that Sherlock Holmes was still around to work on the case.

Dr. Watson encounters an old bookseller who follows him back to his office. The bookseller removes a disguise.

Dr. Watson is, of course, surprised. Holmes tells him that he faked his death and then disappeared to avoid Moriarty's henchmen wanting revenge.

Dr. Watson still lives at 221B Baker Street and has left Holmes' room untouched. They notice that there is a vacant house across the street and explore it. They discover that from the house one can see their residence. Holmes suspects that someone else has been in the house and that suspicious men have been nearby.

Holmes has placed a plaster bust of himself in a window.

A man enters the empty house and puts together an exotic air rifle.

Holmes jumps on the man and the noise brings Lestrade and several policemen.

The man is identified as Colonel Sebastian Moran, one of Prof. Moriarty's henchmen. Some items found on him indicate that he also used his weapon to kill Ronald Adair.

Holmes tells Watson that Colonel Moran had become a "card shark" and was visiting a club and making money by cheating at cards. Adair had told Moran that he was going to inform the other club members of Moran's activities.

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes
Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Watson
Eric Porter as Professor Moriarty
Patrick Allen as Colonel Sebastian Moran
Colin Jeavons as Inspector Lestrade
Director: Howard Baker
Writers: Arthur Conan Doyle, John Hawkesworth