Shadows and Sleuths
After Sherlock’s return from the dead, Arthur Conan Doyle became an evangelist for spiritualism. His star declined after a public spat, whereas Sherlock Holmes found a life beyond his author on stage and screen.
Episodes
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Shadows and Sleuths
S1 E3 - 52m 56s
After Sherlock’s return from the dead, Arthur Conan Doyle became an evangelist for spiritualism. His star declined after a public spat, whereas Sherlock Holmes found a life beyond his author on stage and screen.
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Fact and Fiction
S1 E2 - 52m 48s
Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most famous creation, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, after just six years. In this episode, Lucy Worsley explores who Arthur Conan Doyle was without Sherlock, and whether he’ll was able to become the hero of his own story.
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Doctor and Detective
S1 E1 - 53m 22s
World famous detective Sherlock Holmes brought Arthur Conan Doyle fame and fortune. So why did he choose to kill the character off, only 6 years after he first appeared in print? In the first episode of a 3-part series, Lucy Worsley delves into this curious case.
Extras + Features
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Janice Allan
S1 E3 - 3m 35s
There's a lot of weirdness in the later Sherlock Holmes stories – the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes. There are vampires, even a bit of science fiction. To Sherlock Holmes fans who liked Holmes’s rationality, this must have seemed like a really strange new departure? Lucy explores the story ‘The Creeping Man’ with Professor Janice Allan.
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The Gun
S1 E3 - 3m 12s
So how did the first story in the new collection – 1903’s The Empty House – measure up? It weaves together Sherlock’s return, with a classic murder mystery. Lucy re-stages the crime with Jonathan Ferguson, the keeper of firearms at the Royal Armouries. Does Arthur’s science stand up to scrutiny?
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The War
S1 E3 - 3m 34s
Dressed in military attire, Arthur heads to the front line during the first world war. Much to Arthur's disappointment, he was visiting as the author of Sherlock Holmes, not as a soldier fighting for his country. After meeting and greeting the troops at the trenches, Arthur turns his attention to devising a new Sherlock Holmes story – a spy novel set just before the war titled "His Last Bow."
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Waterfall
S1 E3 - 3m 27s
Sherlock Holmes is back from the dead! After mounting pressure from fans across the world, Arthur Conan Doyle finally revives the great, fictional detective in a new story published in The Strand Magazine. Visiting the Reichenbach Falls, the site of Sherlock's "death," Lucy Worsley explains how Holmes survived his brawl with Professor Moriarty.
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The Bodybuilder
S1 E2 - 3m 13s
If Sherlock Holmes had been about brains, this was about brawn. Arthur
became the judge of Britain’s very first body building competition at the Albert Hall. Can you image 80 men standing on pedestals, wearing leopard skin? But what was the aim of it? -
War is Coming
S1 E2 - 3m 7s
With the Boer War looming, Arthur vows to leave Sherlock behind for good and applies to the war office to fight for his country instead. Both Doyle and Holmes' futures are uncertain, but is this Arthur's chance to finally become the hero of his own story?
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George Edalji
S1 E2 - 2m
The public had wanted Arthur to channel his inner Sherlock for years. In 1908, he received another letter from a fan, who’d read The Hound of the Baskervilles while in prison. His name was George Edalji. George believed he’d been wrongly accused of a crime and thought Arthur Conan Doyle was the man to help.
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Hound of the Baskervilles
S1 E2 - 2m 55s
Arthur thought he had the makings of a great ghost story. There was this phantom hound, and there was the spooky setting of Dartmoor. It is of course Hound of the Baskervilles. At the heart of this gothic tale there was a mystery to be solved, and one man would be perfect for the job. But Arthur had spent the last 8 years trying to make a name for himself away from Sherlock Holmes.
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Sue Black
S1 E1 - 2m 50s
Sherlock Holmes solved some of his most challenging cases through his careful observation and masterful skills of deduction. However, would this fictional detective's methods hold up in the non-fictional world? Lucy Worsley and Professor Sue Black discuss how some aspects of Sherlock's investigative tactics are still being used to solve crimes today.
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Richard Pooley
S1 E1 - 2m 47s
Arthur's head and heart are in conflict with one another. On one hand, Arthur believes Sherlock is preventing him from being taken seriously as a writer, but – on the other – the detective has made Arthur rich beyond his wildest dreams. Lucy, alongside Arthur's step great-grandson, Richard Pooley, inspect the letters the author wrote to his Mam in hopes of revealing more about his inner turmoil.
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Killing Sherlock
S1 E1 - 2m 47s
How do you kill the world's most famous detective? Lucy Worsley visits the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, the site where Arthur Conan Doyle finally decided to have his fictional sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, killed following a dramatic confrontation with prolific criminal, Professor Moriarty.
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Preview
S1 - 30s
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.
Schedule
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Doctor and Detective
Sunday
Dec 29
1 Hour
The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Doctor and Detective
Friday
Jan 3
1 Hour
The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Fact and Fiction
Friday
Jan 3
1 Hour
Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Shadows and Sleuths
Friday
Jan 3
1 Hour
How Sherlock found a life beyond his author on the stage and screen. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Doctor and Detective
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Fact and Fiction
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Shadows and Sleuths
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
How Sherlock found a life beyond his author on the stage and screen. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Doctor and Detective
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Fact and Fiction
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Shadows and Sleuths
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
How Sherlock found a life beyond his author on the stage and screen. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Doctor and Detective
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Fact and Fiction
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Shadows and Sleuths
Saturday
Jan 4
1 Hour
How Sherlock found a life beyond his author on the stage and screen. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Sunday
Jan 5
1 Hour
British historian Lucy Worsley delves into the complex love-hate relationship between Sherlock Holmes and the man who created him, Arthur Conan Doyle. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Doctor and Detective
Tuesday
Jan 7
1 Hour
The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Doctor and Detective
Tuesday
Jan 7
1 Hour
The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Fact and Fiction
Wednesday
Jan 8
1 Hour
Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Fact and Fiction
Wednesday
Jan 8
1 Hour
Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Shadows and Sleuths
Thursday
Jan 9
1 Hour
How Sherlock found a life beyond his author on the stage and screen. -
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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle
Shadows and Sleuths
Thursday
Jan 9
1 Hour
How Sherlock found a life beyond his author on the stage and screen.
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