History Series / MurderRooms

* [[{{FingerInTheMail}} Ear in the Mail]]: Elspeth recieves one in the pilot.

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: In a sense; Doyle identifies the true killer in "The White Knight Stratagem" when [[spoiler:he reads a description the man wrote of a complex chess game; the account was far too detailed for the unobservant idiot the man had been presenting himself as to Doyle and Bell, which prompted them to analyse his actions up to that point from a new perspective and realise that he was the guilty party]].

-> -- '''Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle''', OpeningNarration

* NiceHat: Bell wears a topper, while Doyle wears a derby.

The series only has [[{{BritishBrevity}} six episodes]] (or five depending how the pilot is edited) and some speculate it was ScrewedByTheNetwork after someone from the BBC remarked it was "[[{{Too Good to Last}} too successful for the wrong department]]".

* DownerEnding: The pilot. [[spoiler: The murder escapes to Nova Scotia, Elspeth is killed, and Doyle destroys the only (unstable) evidence against him.]]

''Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes'' [[note]] Also subtitled "Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes" in some markets.[[/note]] has the premise that Arthur Conan Doyle (Robin Laing in the PilotMovie and Charles Edwards in the series) based his character of Literature/SherlockHolmes on surgeon Dr. Joseph Bell, his old medical professor (Creator/IanRichardson) with whom he used to solve murders. Bell did in fact exist, and it is said some of Holmes' personality traits and observational methods were based on him, but Doyle and Bell certainly did not solve murders together. Originally commissioned as a one-off drama, positive reception led to a full series of four 90 minute episodes.

''Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes'' [[note]] Also subtitled "Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes" in some markets.[[/note]] has the premise that Arthur Conan Doyle (Robin Laing in the PilotMovie and Charles Edwards in the series) based his character of Literature/SherlockHolmes on surgeon Dr. Joseph Bell, his old medical professor (Ian Richardson) with whom he used to solve murders. Bell did in fact exist, and it is said some of Holmes' personality traits and observational methods were based on him, but Doyle and Bell certainly did not solve murders together. Originally commissioned as a one-off drama, positive reception led to a full series of four 90 minute episodes.

''Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes'' [[note]] Also subtitled "Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes" in some markets.[[/note]] has the premise that Arthur Conan Doyle (Robin Laing in the PilotMovie and Charles Edwards in the series) based his character of Literature/SherlockHolmes on surgeon Dr. Joseph Bell, his old medical professor (Ian Richardson) with whom he used to solve murders. Bell did in fact exist, and it is said some of Holmes' personality traits and observational methods were based on him, but Doyle and Bell certainly did not solve murders together.

* RedHerring: In the pilot much suspicion is placed upon Sir Henry played by Creator/CharlesDance [[spoiler: He's innocent of the murders. He frequented a brothel, gave is wife syphillis and unknowingly gave her poisoned pills to make her better.]]

The series only has [[{{BritishBrevity}} five episodes]] (or six depending how the pilot is edited) and some speculate it was ScrewedByTheNetwork after someone from the BBC remarked it was "[[{{Too Good to Last}} too successful for the wrong department]]".

!!! Series One [[note]] The pilot was originally broadcast in two parts but is often edited together on home video as one PilotMovie.[[/note]]

!!! Series Two

''Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes'' [[note]] Also known as "Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes" in some markets.[[/note]] has the premise that Arthur Conan Doyle (Robin Laing in the PilotMovie and Charles Edwards in the series) based his character of Literature/SherlockHolmes on surgeon Dr. Joseph Bell (Ian Richardson) with whom he used to solve murders. Bell did in fact exist, and it is said some of Holmes' personality traits and observational methods were based on him, but Doyle and Bell certainly did not solve murders together.

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* InsufferableGenius: Some people (most notably lieutenant Blaney) see Bell as this.

* RedHerring: In the pilot much suspicion is placed upon Sir Henry played by Charles Dance [[spoiler: He's innocent of the murders. He frequented a brothel, gave is wife syphillis and unknowingly gave her poisoned pills to make her better.]]

* TheSummation

* VictorianLondon: The climax of "The Kingdom of Bones" takes place here.

** Many students and professors are aghast that women are allowed to be in medical school, and the professors have discretion if they allow women into their class, and the anatomy professor point blanks refuses to teach them. The tensions get so bad that all the female students are expelled for one two months, much to Dr. Bell's fury.

* FairPlayWhodunnit

* {{Frameup}}: [[spoiler:Neill attempts this in the pilot and Lieutenant Blaney in "The White Knight Stratagem".]]

* MysteryOfTheWeek

* NeverOneMurder
* NiceHat

* NoHeroToHisValet: Doyle doesn't think much of Dr. Bell's methods as a student. Bell is bemused but rather than kick Doyle out of his class he decides to make him his clerk as he believes the ignorant should be taught.

* CostumePorn: It is set in VictorianBritain.

* VictorianBritain: The setting divided mainly between Edinburgh and Southsea.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the pilot, Doyle is played by a [[{{TheOtherDarrin}} different actor]] is brasher and angstier and Ian Richardson has a horrible haircut.

* VictorianBritain
* VictorianLondon