For Balladeer’s Blog’s review of the first episode of this 1971-1973 series about non-Holmes detectives of the Victorian and Edwardian Ages click HERE   

*** This review will cover the three 1st Season episodes featuring Max Carrados, Simon Carne and Romney Pringle, each with their own defect. I’m borrowing the term «Defective Detectives» from a subgenre of Pulp stories starring detectives who had some form of defect (even pin-headedness) as their gimmick. 

Episode: THE MISSING WITNESS SENSATION (September 27th, 1971)

Detective: Max Carrados, created by Ernest Bramah. The first Max Carrados story was published in 1914.

Review: Private Detective Max Carrados (Robert Stephens) was blind, but brilliant. His gimmick was the ingenious way he alertly used other sensory clues and his computer-like mind to compensate for his blindness.

Amazingly enough, during the six years (1914-1920) that Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados tales went head-to-head with Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes…