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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes
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Main aliases: Sigerson, Escott, Captain Basil, Altamont, etc.
Species: Human
Place of origin: Earth
Appearances: DWM: Funhouse (illusion; cameo)
NA: All-Consuming Fire
NA: Happy Endings
FP: Of the City of the Saved... (multiple iterations and recreatons)
FP: Erasing Sherlock
IWN: The Shape of Things

Sherlock Holmes became the most famous detective of the 19th century through the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle. In the 20th century his existence as a real person was a matter of debate.

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Biography Edit

Life and career Edit

Holmes had several notable relatives: Siger, Sherringford, Mycroft and Genevieve. Early in his career, a murder investigation involved Holmes with the intrigues of Faction Paradox and the Celestis. (FP: Erasing Sherlock)

In 1887, Holmes and Watson helped the Seventh Doctor battle the Old One known as Azathoth. (NA: All-Consuming Fire) Later in 1887, Holmes and Watson travelled to Cheldon Bonniface, 2010 to attend the wedding of Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane, uncovering the schemes of the Master during the festivities. (NA: Happy Endings)

In 1888, Holmes and Watson met up with Iris Wildthyme and her six foot companion Panda. (IWN: The Shape of Things)

In 1894, Holmes investigated The West End Horror (novel by Nicholas Meyer) and may or may not have encountered the Eighth Doctor at the time. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Having completed a second run of Holmes stories for publication in The Strand Magazine, Conan Doyle got tired of writing stories about the detective, and wrote a story in which a villain, Moriarty, caused Holmes' death. This failed to stick. (DWM: Character Assassin)

Historically, The Final Problem appears to have been written under a contract separate from the earlier stories that with it comprise The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, published in 1893. The Empty House, which explains how Holmes faked his death, was set in 1894. Moriarty appeared in NA: All-Consuming Fire and was (somewhat obliquely) mentioned as a real person in NA: The Death of Art and BNA: Ghost Devices.

Like all humanoid life, Holmes was reborn into the City of the Saved but, thanks to the Remembrance Tank technology of The Remote, multiple versions of him were created by the populace, most of them based on film and television depictions of him, rather than Holmes himself. Many of these Holmes iterations joined together to establish the Great Detective Agency. (FP: Of the City of the Saved...)

Other information Edit

Minor references Edit

Holmes' status as fiction Edit

A noted above, different accounts attribute disparate levels of "reality" to Holmes, variously suggesting that he existed as a real person named Sherlock Holmes, some that he never existed, and others that Holmes and Watson were authentic historical figures under different names, whose identities Watson's literary agent Arthur Conan Doyle concealed (NA: All-Consuming Fire). To further disguise the identity of his clients, Conan Doyle instructed his illustrators to dress 'Holmes' in the deerstalker and cape the Fourth Doctor had been wearing when the writer met him in 1880 (MA: Evolution). In accordance with this, the most substantial information regarding Holmes' encounters with the Doctor and his companions has been provided in the subjective form of diary entries written by Bernice Summerfield and 'Watson' (NA: All-Consuming Fire, Happy Endings).

Some who've made his acquaintance, such as Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, still seem to regard him as not quite real (BFBS: The Final Amendment).

While specificlly discussing Holmes in every instance, the Doctor has hinted (NA: Timewyrm: Revelation, EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles) at some permeability between "fiction" and "reality".

Behind the scenes Edit

General information Edit

Many commentators, including Colin Baker, have noted a similarity between the characters of the Doctor and Holmes. Both character have enjoyed rare levels of popularity and longevity as British fictional characters in multiple media. Tom Baker played Holmes in a 1982 television serial adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

The version of Sherlock Holmes depicted on the cover of All-Consuming Fire is based upon arguably the most famous cinematic portrayer of the role, Basil Rathbone.

Crossovers in other works Edit

The Kim Newman short story collection Secret Files of the Diogenes Club, a work which mixes the Sherlock Holmes and other continuities, features Newman's creation the Cold from his Time and Relative, set in the Doctor Who universe.

The Doctor, the TARDIS and Holmes (as well as his brother Mycroft and archnemesis Moriarty) all co-exist in Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen universe.

Big Finish's Sherlock Holmes Edit

Beginning in 2009, Big Finish Productions began releasing a range of Sherlock Holmes audio dramas.[1] In the first two episodes Roger Llewellyn played an older Holmes reflecting on his past adventures, with Nicholas Briggs playing the detective in more traditional Holmes adventures from episode three onward. Many cast and crew from the Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories have contributed to the range.

Steven Moffat's Sherlock Edit

In 2010, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss created the BBC Wales series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock and also featuring Gatiss and Russell Tovey in supporting roles. As of 2012, it consists of six 90 minute episodes written by Moffat, Gatiss and Steve Thompson.

Matt Smith had auditioned for the role of Watson, but was turned down before Steven Moffat cast him as the Eleventh Doctor.

Benedict Cumberbatch was rumoured to have been offered the role of the Eleventh Doctor and turned it down.[1] He denied the rumour, claiming never to have been offered the role.[2] He has expressed his interest in appearing in Doctor Who, but said that he doesn't want a one-off part.

Doctor Who actors who have played Sherlock Holmes Edit

Cleese, Rupert Everett, Matt Frewer and Christopher Lee, all of whom have played Sherlock Holmes, were all considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor in the TV movie [2].

Non-narrative info Edit

  • According to The Brilliant Book 2012, a book that contains non-narrative based information; in an alternate universe where all history occured at once, Holmes hosted a reality TV show called Detects Factor. The book also states that the Eleventh Doctor feared that wearing a deerstalker hat may make people confuse him for Sherlock.

See also Edit

Footnotes Edit

Sherlock Holmes

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