Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear(1983)

movie - first aired/released 1983-01-01 - audience 5.5

Holmes & Watson receive a letter from an informant who known by the pseudonym Fred Porlock. Porlock is a man well connected with criminals. The letter is written in code, and Holmes determines that the code comes from the words in a book. They decipher the code by page and column and find that John Douglas of Birlstone House is in danger.