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Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.

No good deed goes unpunished. Benito, the blind Mexican harp player with a heart of gold believes firmly that one day he will finally win the lottery. The money will enable him finally to leave America and return home to his loved ones. Benito has been in America a long time and has a history of risking his own health and safety in order to help others. He lost his eyesight when he caught smallpox while nursing a friend who had the disease.

Sentenced to burn at the stake for sorcery, animal-lover Merofled volunteers to assist a warrior find the gargoyle that is threatening her village, and help rescue the boy it has captured. She's going to die anyway - why not do something positive with her life? So, off she rides with a local farmer and the handsome, war-weary soldier. Merofled secretly hopes that if she and her comrades succeed in saving the boy, she might be granted a pardon. But on the quest to find the gargoyle, Merofled discovers that the men plan to kill the creature she has vowed to defend.

The world’s most famous sleuth returns in The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - a radio show which aired in the USA from 1939-1950, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. In later seasons, Holmes was played by Tom Conway and John Stanley, and Watson was played by Alfred Shirley. Episodes from 1939 through 1943 were written or adapted by Edith Meiser from the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.