History Franchise / SherlockHolmes

* Creator/BasilRathbone (Recorded 5 selected Doyle stories for Caedmon Records in the 1960s, subsequently re-released by HarperColins Audio in 2008)
* Creator/PeterCushing (Recorded ''Literature/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'' for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in 1971. Was widely commercially released in 2011 by Cosmic Hobo Productions.)

* {{Creator/Ian McKellen}} (Narrated ''The Valley of Fear'' for BBC Audio)
* Creator/ChristopherLee

* Creator/BasilRathbone
* Creator/PeterCushing
* Douglas Wilmer
* Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (narrated John Taylor's ''Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries & other stories'' for {{AudioGo}}/BBC Audio)
* {{Creator/Ian McKellen}} (narrated ''The Valley of Fear'' for BBC Audio)

* Creator/DerekJacobi (narrated the Doyle canon for {{AudioGo}}, and Creator/AnthonyHorowitz's ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'')
* Edward Hardwicke
* Creator/StephenFry (narrated the entire Doyle canon for Audible, also wrote and read introductions for each story)
* Creator/TimCurry (narrated Creator/StephenKing's ''The Doctor's Case'')
* Simon Vance (narrated the Doyle canon, and numerous pastiches including Lyndsay Faye's ''Literature/DustAndShadow'')
* David Timson (narrated the complete Doyle canon for Naxos AudioBooks)
* John Telfer (narrated Donald Thomas's pastiches)

* Jenny Sterlin (narrated Laurie R. King's Literature/MaryRussell series)
* Katherine Kellgren (narrated Nancy Springer's Literature/EnolaHolmes series)

* Creator/BenedictCumberbatch

* Creator/StephenFry

* David Timson (narrated the Doyle canon for NAXOS Audio)

* John Telfer

* {{Creator/Ian McKellen}}

* Creator/DerekJacobi

* Creator/TimCurry
* Simon Vance
* David Timson

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* ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes'' (1939 to 1950) an Old Time Radio series with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprising their popular film roles as Holmes and Watson. Other actors took over once they left, including Creator/TomConway who was Rathbone's initial replacement.

* ''Sherlock in Russia'', a 2020 Russian series, has Holmes going to St. Petersburg, Russia to capture UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.

[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes''

Holmes was assisted by his trusty {{sidekick}}, [[TheWatson Doctor John Watson]], an ex-army surgeon with an injured limb. Watson also served as CharacterNarrator: the majority of Holmes's adventures were told via the FramingDevice of Watson's journals.

A final note: as one of the oldest continuous franchises in existence (there have been over 230 versions of Holmes in film, television, stage, and radio), it stands to reason that it also has a ''very'' extensive fandom, and there's a very compelling argument that, even more so than ''Franchise/StarTrek'', Holmes and the works about him laid the groundwork for what a high-interest, high-engagement fandom of a [[LongRunner long-running]] media franchise would be in the 20th century and beyond (for good and ill). For many {{Fanfic Trope|s}} and Audience Reaction examples, it happened in the Sherlock Holmes fandom first.

* ''Series/{{House}}'' (or ''House M.D.'') owes quite a bit to Holmes. Besides the [[{{Expy}} acknowledged parallels]] -- Greg House/Sherlock Holmes and James Wilson/John Watson -- there are a number of references and running jokes that pay homage to Sherlock Holmes, such as House's address being 221B (Baker Street), the name of the man in "No Reason" who [[spoiler:shoots House]], named as "Moriarty" [[AllThereInTheManual (although never onscreen)]], a book by Dr. Bell, the inspiration for Holmes, being given to House as a gift, an episode where House writes the phrase "The game is a itchy foot" on an envelope, and the fact that the very first patient that he treats in the pilot episode is a woman named "Adler". On that note, one episode had Wilson tell another character about a woman named Irene Adler, who he described as being essentially the same as the original Irene Adler--[[spoiler:then subverting it by admitting that he made it up]]. Finally, in the series finale [[spoiler:House fakes his death, just like Holmes did via the Reichenbach Falls incident]].

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' features an amateur detective with phenomenal powers of observation and his less-able, though still clever, partner, who are retained as consultants by a skeptical police department. If it's not officially a Holmes adaptation, it may as well be.

* ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' (1989 to 1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. This production is notable for adapting every novel and short story with the same pair of actors playing Holmes and Watson. Merrison's performance has some marked similarities to Brett's. It was so popular that a series of pastiches called ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' was commissioned which ran for four seasons. Merrison reprised his role as Holmes, but since Michael Willimas had passed away, Andrew Sachs was tapped to replace him as Watson.

* Creator/BigFinish, most famous for their extensive range of ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays]], have been producing a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas. Besides the regular series, set between canon stories, one is set during Holmes' elderly years after the passing of Dr. Watson, one is a metafictional tale in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Moriarty conspire against Holmes, and another pits Holmes against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The Great Detective is played by Roger Llewellyn (in his old age) and Nicholas Briggs (in the regular episodes). Briggs' Holmes has also met the Creator/BigFinish version of [[AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire the Doctor himself]].

* Three Sherlock Holmes games were released on a Famicom, but none of them outside Japan. Two were your typical adventure games solving clues. The third one was an action-adventure game which wasn't received well.

* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1954), a series of adaptations in 1964-65 and 1968 starring Douglas Wilmer and later Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson.

* Creator/BigFinish, most famous for their extensive range of ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays]], have been producing a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas. Besides the regular series, set between canon stories, one is set during Holmes' elderly years after the passing of Dr. Watson, one is a metafictional tale in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Moriarty conspire against Holmes, and another pits Holmes against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The Great Detective is played by Roger Llewellyn (in his old age) and Nicholas Briggs (in the regular episodes). Briggs' Holmes has also met the Creator/BigFinish version of [[Series/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire the Doctor himself]].

[[folder:Literature]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]

!! Sherlock Holmes adaptations:

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson''
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes''
* ''Series/{{Elementary}}''
* ''Series/TheIrregulars''
* ''Series/MissSherlock''
* ''Series/MurderRooms''
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''
* ''Series/SherlockHolmes'' - Television series starring Creator/JeremyBrett, often referred to as the 'Granada Series' by fans.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes''
* ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' (1989 to 1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. This production is notable for adapting every novel and short story with the same pair of actors playing Holmes and Watson. Merrison's performance has some marked similarities to Brett's. It was so popular that a series of pastiches called ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' was commissioned which ran for four seasons. Merrison reprised his role as Holmes, but since Michael Willimas had passed away, Andrew Sachs was tapped to replace him as Watson.

* William Gillette, famous for playing Holmes on stage also played in two separate radio plays. The first was an adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and the second was an adaption of his famous play for ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre''. Sadly both performances have been lost to time.
* Creator/OrsonWelles played Holmes in adaptation of Gillette's melodrama in an episode of his famous ''Radio/TheMercuryTheatreOnTheAir''.
* After the success of ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' and ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|1939}}'', Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprised their famous film roles for ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes'', which despite the title was a mix of adaptations of Conan Doyle's stories and new pastiches. Several are available here [[http://www.archive.org/details/HQSherlockRathboneTCS]])
* [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio]] has done numerous Holmes dramas over the years. Amongst the most famous are:
** ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1954-55), a 16 episode series starring Sir John Gielgud as Holmes and Sir Ralph Richardson as Watson. The show was co-produced with ABC Radio which meant that Creator/OrsonWelles guest-starred as Professor Moriarty.
** Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley played Holmes and Watson in over 80 different dramas from 1952 to 1969.
* Blackstone Audio's The Hollywood Theatre of the Ear did a boxset called ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Theater'' which featured Martin Jarvis as Holmes and Kristoffer Tabori as Watson. It featured two classic stage adaptions of Holmes: William Gillette's ''Sherlock Holmes'', which also featured Creator/TonyJay as Professor Moriarty, Doyle's own adaption of ''The Speckled Band'', and an original parody by Yuri Rasovsky entitled ''Ghastly Double Murder in Famed Detective's Flat''.
* Creator/BigFinish, most famous for their extensive range of ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays]], have been producing a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas. Besides the regular series, set between canon stories, one is set during Holmes' elderly years after the passing of Dr. Watson, one is a metafictional tale in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Moriarty conspire against Holmes, and another pits Holmes against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The Great Detective is played by Roger Llewellyn (in his old age) and Nicholas Briggs (in the regular episodes). Briggs' Holmes has also met the Creator/BigFinish version of [[Series/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire the Doctor himself]].

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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]

* ''TabletopGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective''

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Sherlock Holmes first appeared on television in 1937.
* 1951 saw the first regular TV series based on Holmes' exploits, airing on the BBC with Alan Wheatley as Holmes and Raymond Francis as Watson.
* A syndicated 1954-55 TV series, filmed in France, starring Ronald Howard and Howard Marion-Crawford as Holmes and Watson.
* A series of adaptations in 1964-65 and 1968 starring Douglas Wilmer and later Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes and Nigel Stock as Watson.
* Creator/JohnCleese starred as Holmes' grandson - Arthur Sherlock Holmes - in the comic TV special ''The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It'' (1977). Arthur Lowe played Dr. William Watson, the original doctor's grandson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson'', a 24-part series from 1979-80 with Geoffrey Whitehead and Donald Pickering as Holmes and Watson. The series' producer, Sheldon Reynolds, also produced the Ronald Howard version.
* In 1982, Creator/TomBaker starred as the Great Detective in Creator/TheBBC's adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles''. He claimed that the BBC apologised for both the production and his performance.
* ''Series/SherlockHolmes'', produced by Granada Television (ITV), starring Creator/JeremyBrett, David Burke, and Edward Hardwicke. Ran from 1984 to 1994, and is generally considered to be most faithful to Conan Doyle's original vision of the character. Series one and two ran under then name ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'', three and four ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'', five ''The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes'', and six ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes''. Five feature-length episodes were made and released between series, two based on the novels ''The Sign of Four'' and ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', three based on short stories turned into AdaptationExpansion.
* The [[TheEighties 1979-1986]] [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] series of TV movies ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'' -- no relationship to the above. A Russian-language series notable for ''not'' [[{{Flanderization}} flanderizing]] Watson into an idiot, being a generally faithful AdaptationDistillation and for the fact that the actor playing Holmes got an Order of the British Empire for his portrayal (surprising for a Soviet citizen). It's also provided fodder for a lot of [[RussianHumor Russian jokes]] (but then again, what doesn't?)
* ''[[Series/MurderRooms Murder Rooms: The Dark Origins of Sherlock Holmes]]'' is a BBC series which featured not Holmes and Watson, but instead had the young Arthur Conan Doyle himself in the [[TheWatson Watson role]] and expounded on the theory that the character of Holmes was a thinly-veiled stand-in for one of Doyle's medical school teachers, Professor Joseph Bell.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', a BBC miniseries beginning July 2010. Created by Creator/StevenMoffat and Creator/MarkGatiss, the series stars Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Creator/MartinFreeman as Dr. John Watson in a 21st-century SettingUpdate of the original stories. The show has been a critical and commercial smash hit both in the UK and abroad and cleaned up at the 2011 UsefulNotes/{{BAFTA}}s, including wins for Best Supporting Actor (Freeman) and Best Drama Series.
* The Canadian mystery series ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'' was about the great-grandniece of Sherlock Holmes solving crimes.
* ''Series/{{House}}'' owes quite a bit to Sherlock Holmes. Besides the [[{{Expy}} acknowledged parallels]] -- Greg House/Sherlock Holmes and James Wilson/John Watson -- there are a number of references and running jokes that pay homage to Sherlock Holmes, such as House's address being 221B (Baker Street), the name of the man in "No Reason" who [[spoiler:shoots House]], named as "Moriarty" [[AllThereInTheManual (although never onscreen)]], a book by Dr. Bell, the inspiration for Holmes, being given to House as a gift, an episode where House writes the phrase "The game is a itchy foot" on an envelope, and the fact that the very first patient that he treats in the pilot episode is a woman named "Adler". On that note, one episode had Wilson tell another character about a woman named Irene Adler, who he described as being essentially the same as the original Irene Adler--[[spoiler:then subverting it by admitting that he made it up]]. Finally, in the series finale [[spoiler:House fakes his death, just like Holmes did via the Reichenbach Falls incident]].
* Creator/{{CBS}} created an American television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes titled ''Series/{{Elementary}}'', which stars Creator/JonnyLeeMiller as Holmes and Creator/LucyLiu as [[GenderFlip Joan Watson]]. Sherlock goes to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity after a [[TraumaCongaLine becoming a heroin addict after a serious trauma]] while in London and meets Joan Watson, a sober companion hired by his father to help him in the post-rehab life. The main focus of the show is the growing relationship between Holmes and Watson and works as a deconstruction of TheWatson and the {{Sidekick}} tropes. Joan Watson is one of the protagonists, an aspiring consultant detective (ex-sober companion and ex-surgeon) and her insights are crucial to the story arc.
* ''Series/FantasyIsland'' had at least one story in which a guest wanted to be/meet the World's Greatest Detective.
* An episode of ''The Father Dowling Mysteries'' had the good Father doubting his detecting skills when the police arrest the wrong man on his advice. This causes him to conjure up an image of his hero Holmes as a consulting detective to help him solve the case.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' features an amateur detective with phenomenal powers of observation and his less-able, though still clever, partner, who are retained as consultants by a skeptical police department. If it's not officially a Holmes adaptation, it may as well be.
* The 1985 television PilotMovie ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' had Michael Pennington as the great detective, thawed out in modern times by a female descendant of Watson.
* ''Sherlock Holmes'', a 2013 Russian 8-part TV series created by Andrey Kavun and starring Igor Petrenko as Sherlock Holmes and Andrey Panin as Watson. Subvert the original stories by forcing Watson to over-romanticise actual events that happen in the series because Watson's editor finds real life boring.
* And a large number of made-for-TV-movies, starring such actors as Creator/TomBaker, Creator/LarryHagman, Creator/RogerMoore, Creator/RichardRoxbourgh, Creator/RupertEverett, and Creator/MattFrewer.
* ''Series/MissSherlock'', a GenderFlip version set in modern Japan produced by HBO Asia. Watson is depicted as "Wato Tachibana," a surgeon returning from a volunteer mission in Syria. Unlike most versions, Wato and Miss Sherlock take an immediate dislike to each other for their opposing personalities and the two only become roommates at the prompting of Sherlock's brother and Wato only joins Sherlock's cases to try and [[DefrostingIceQueen curb Sherlock's more unpleasant character traits.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' featured one of the franchise's characters, Professor James Moriarty, as an antagonist for two episodes. Due to some [[PhlebotinumBreakdown unexpected glitch in the Holodeck]], one of the characters becomes self-aware, realizing that he is a hologram trapped in a simulation. By his second appearance, he states that he is no longer the Moriarty of the books, however, having grown from that starting point due to his experiences on the ''Enterprise''.
* ''Sherlock: Untold Stories,'' a [[Main/JapaneseMedia Japanese]] series [[Main/SettingUpdate set in 2019]] UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, following the adventures of Shishio Homare (a freelance crime consultant) and Junichi Wakamiya (a psychiatrist) as they partner up to solve crimes.
* ''Sherlock in Russia'', a 2020 Russian series, has Holmes going to St. Petersburg, Russia to capture UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
* ''Series/TheIrregulars'', a 2021 Netflix-original series set in the Victorian era, follows [[BakerStreetRegular a group of street urchins]] who are hired by Holmes and Watson to solve supernatural cases.
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'''[[TropeCodifier The]]''' PrivateDetective. As {{Dracula}} is to vampires and Franchise/{{Superman}} is to superheroes, so Sherlock Holmes is to detectives.

* ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio''

[[folder:Radio]]
* William Gillette, famous for playing Holmes on stage also played in two separate radio plays. The first was an adaptation of "The Speckled Band" and the second was an adaption of his famous play for ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre''. Sadly both performances have been lost to time.
* Creator/OrsonWelles played Holmes in adaptation of Gillette's melodrama in an episode of his famous ''Radio/TheMercuryTheatreOnTheAir''.
* After the success of ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' and ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|1939}}'', Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce reprised their famous film roles for ''Radio/TheNewAdventuresOfSherlockHolmes'', which despite the title was a mix of adaptations of Conan Doyle's stories and new pastiches. Several are available here [[http://www.archive.org/details/HQSherlockRathboneTCS]])
* [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio]] has done numerous Holmes dramas over the years. Amongst the most famous are:
** ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1954-55), a 16 episode series starring Sir John Gielgud as Holmes and Sir Ralph Richardson as Watson. The show was co-produced with ABC Radio which meant that Creator/OrsonWelles guest-starred as Professor Moriarty.
** Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley played Holmes and Watson in over 80 different dramas from 1952 to 1969.
** ''Radio/SherlockHolmesBBCRadio'' (1989 to 1998) starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. This production is notable for adapting every novel and short story with the same pair of actors playing Holmes and Watson. Merrison's performance has some marked similarities to Brett's. It was so popular that a series of pastiches called ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' was commissioned which ran for four seasons. Merrison reprised his role as Holmes, but since Michael Willimas had passed away, Andrew Sachs was tapped to replace him as Watson.
* Blackstone Audio's The Hollywood Theatre of the Ear did a boxset called ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Theater'' which featured Martin Jarvis as Holmes and Kristoffer Tabori as Watson. It featured two classic stage adaptions of Holmes: William Gillette's ''Sherlock Holmes'', which also featured Creator/TonyJay as Professor Moriarty, Doyle's own adaption of ''The Speckled Band'', and an original parody by Yuri Rasovsky entitled ''Ghastly Double Murder in Famed Detective's Flat''.
* Creator/BigFinish, most famous for their extensive range of ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays]], have been producing a series of Sherlock Holmes dramas. Besides the regular series, set between canon stories, one is set during Holmes' elderly years after the passing of Dr. Watson, one is a metafictional tale in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Professor Moriarty conspire against Holmes, and another pits Holmes against UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. The Great Detective is played by Roger Llewellyn (in his old age) and Nicholas Briggs (in the regular episodes). Briggs' Holmes has also met the Creator/BigFinish version of [[Series/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire the Doctor himself]].
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!! Sherlock Holmes adaptations (with Wiki/TVTropes pages):

* ''Anime/CaseFileNoTwoTwoOneKabukicho''
* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot''
* ''Anime/SherlockHound''

* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes''
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryMeetSherlockHolmes''

** ''Sherlock Holmes 3'' (TBA)

* ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'' - Stage play which debuted in 1899, ran for over 30 years. Itself adapted into a 1922 film starring Creator/JohnBarrymore, which was also called ''Moriarty''.

* ''Theatre/TheCruciferOfBlood'' - An adaptation of "The Sign of Four".

* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesSecretOfTheSilverEarring''
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheAwakened''
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusArseneLupin''
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusJackTheRipper''
* ''VideoGame/TheTestamentOfSherlockHolmes''
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesCrimesAndPunishments''
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheDevilsDaughter''
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesChapterOne''

* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury''
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockYack''

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!! Sherlock Holmes adaptations (miscellaneous works):
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/SherlockHound'', an {{Anime}} adaptation that recast the characters as {{Funny Animal}}s and aired in 1984 and 1985.
* ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' features one of the protagonists, Aria H. Kanzaki, as the great-granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes. Then in Volume 5, [[spoiler:Sherlock himself made his appearance as one of the antagonists]].
* ''Anime/CaseFileNoTwoTwoOneKabukicho'' is a modernized version set in Shinjuku, Japan. This version of Holmes is a fan of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakugo rakugo]] and explains his findings on the case in this manner.
* ''LightNovel/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and is still a medical student. In this story, he is tasked by the British government to retrieve Victor Frankenstein's notes which are the key to obtaining the souls of the dead.
* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'' focuses on Holmes' archnemesis, James Moriarty, who is actually composed of three brothers sharing the same name. This version of Moriarty wants to destroy the British noble class.
* ''Anime/VampireHolmes'': An anime where Holmes is a vampire, as opposed to a detective.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Franchise/{{Batman}} meets Sherlock Holmes in ''Detective Comics'' #572, the 50th anniversary. In it, Batman travels to London to foil a plot by a descendant of Moriarty based on a previously untold adventure of Holmes. At the end of the adventure, the Dark Knight, and his allies encounter the ancient (but still very much alive) Sherlock.
* ''Watson and Holmes'' are an African-American detective duo based in Harlem.
* ''Deadpool Killustrated'', a sequel to ''Comicbook/DeadpoolKillsTheMarvelUniverse'', has Sherlock Holmes confronting Deadpool, who is killing every famous literary character in the Ideaverse. He even forms his own Avengers team consisting of his partner Dr. Watson, Hua Mulan, Beowulf and Natty Bumppo.
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Sherlock Holmes only appears once in a flashback where he had his confrontation with Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls. He is also possibly a former member of the League where [[https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4342143033_46867d3f10_b.jpg the League's symbol is found on his silver cigar case]]. Like in the original canon, Sherlock fakes his death and retires to Sussex where he is a beekeeper. In 1904, Mina Murray finds him and asks him to be the League's adviser but Sherlock rejects the offer. However, his older brother, Mycroft Holmes, was the director of the League called "M". The same goes with [[spoiler:Moriarty]] who was Mycroft's predecessor and has a descendent in the 1950's.
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[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
A common urban legend is that Sherlock Holmes fanfics were so common as to make the writers of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' believe that the character, as well as his nemesis Professor Moriarty, were in the public domain when they made the episode "Elementary, My Dear Data", only to receive an angry letter from the Doyle estate. This is, unfortunately, not supported by the facts, but it makes a good story -- students of urban legends will, of course, recognize some slight resemblance between this and the Neiman-Marcus Red Velvet Cake legend.

Sherlock Holmes was arguably one of the first franchises in the modern era to become almost as famous for its fanfiction as for its fiction. Holmes captured the imagination of many writers and spawned a considerable amount of unauthorized sequels or guest appearances -- especially across the Atlantic, as the state of international copyright enforcement was largely nonexistent at the time. According to Victorian literature expert Jess Nevins, it was fairly common for penny-dreadful writers to write stories in which Sherlock Holmes is immediately murdered and a plucky young protagonist has to figure out who did it. Also, stories of the French character Literature/ArseneLupin began as a Holmes copycat, but subsequently featured a renamed (by order of Conan Doyle's lawyers) and badly-written version of Holmes himself.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. See ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'' below.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryMeetSherlockHolmes''. And not only do the famed cat and mouse, but so do Droopy, Spike, Tyke, and Butch, in grand over-the-top style.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* Sherlock Holmes first appeared on-stage in an 1899 play written by and starring William Gillette. Simply titled ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'', it featured an original plot. Years later, Creator/OrsonWelles would adapt the play for ''The Mercury Radio Theater'' with the explanation that, "It is not enough to say that William Gillette looks like Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock Holmes looks ''exactly'' like William Gillette." It was Gillette, and not Doyle, who popularized most of the visual tropes associated with the character to this day such as the deerstalker cap, the distinctive pipe and riding cloak. His iconic attire was originally depicted by Sidney Paget, who illustrated the stories for their initial publication in ''Strand Magazine'', but he only put Holmes in them in appropriate situations: when the story took him out of London, and into the countryside.
* The 1978 play, ''Theatre/TheCruciferOfBlood'' by Paul Giovanni which was based on ''The Sign of Four''. It was made into a TV movie in 1991 featuring Creator/CharltonHeston as Sherlock Holmes (he had played the role previously in an LA production of the play, and Jeremy Brett had been his Watson).
* Starting in 1988, Creator/JeremyBrett and his second Watson, Edward Hardwicke, starred in a stage production titled ''Theatre/TheSecretOfSherlockHolmes''. It was written by Jeremy Paul, who scripted many episodes of [[Series/SherlockHolmes the Granada Television series.]]
* Charles Marowitz's black comedy ''Sherlock's Last Case,'' in which Watson has been so DrivenToMadness by Holmes' nastiness that he tries to murder him. [[spoiler: That goes so badly that poor Watson is DrivenToSuicide instead.]]
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Three Sherlock Holmes games were released on a Famicom, but none of them outside Japan. Two were your typical adventure games solving clues. The third one was an action-adventure game which wasn't received well.
* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective'' was released for PC, [=TurboDuo=], CTDV and Sega CD in the early '90s, as part of the FullMotionVideo craze that gripped gaming after the introduction of the CD-ROM format.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sherlock|1984}}'' (1984): An InteractiveFiction game.
* ''VideoGame/SherlockTheRiddleOfTheCrownJewels'' (1988): One of the last InteractiveFiction games produced by Creator/{{Infocom}}, in which the player takes the role of Watson.
* ''VideoGame/TheLostFilesOfSherlockHolmes'', published by Creator/ElectronicArts, sadly limited to two adventures (''The Case of the Serrated Scalpel'' and ''The Case of the Rose Tattoo'') were released in the 1990s to portray two Holmes cases [[{{Kayfabe}} considered "too hot to show"]].
* Since 2002, the company Frogwares has been developing a series of Sherlock Holmes puzzle/adventure games based on the original books as well as including various crossovers with other series. As of 2021, the main titles in the series are:
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheMysteryOfTheMummy''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesSecretOfTheSilverEarring''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheAwakened'' -- a crossover with the Franchise/CthulhuMythos
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusArseneLupin'' -- a crossover with Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin stories, themselves a parody of Sherlock Holmes mysteries
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesVersusJackTheRipper''
** ''VideoGame/TheTestamentOfSherlockHolmes''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesCrimesAndPunishments''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheDevilsDaughter''
** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesChapterOne'' -- Holmes' origin story prior to meeting Watson
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' is an unusual example - while he's not ''the'' focus character, Holmes is introduced as a major character in the game's sixth story chapter and joins the main cast, regardless of the player's status in obtaining him as a playable Ruler-class "Servant" party member, in the course of the ''Epic of Remnant'' expansion and the Cosmos in the Lostbelt arc. [[spoiler:James Moriarty makes a similar debut in the first ''[=EoR=]'' chapter as an Archer-class Servant and makes further appearances later on.]]
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* While the actual storyline itself never came to fruition, Erin confirms that Sherlock Holmes is part of the ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' canon: Watson had wrote a book about a time when he and Sherlock crossed paths with [[Manga/PetShopOfHorrors Count D]], but he shelved it because he knew no one would believe it due to the more supernatural elements and he wanted to be taken seriously as an author. However, the manuscript survived in some fashion, as Integra had been told it as a bedtime story.
* ''Webcomic/SignsOfThree'', a webcomic adaptation updating the stories to contemporary times, adding more diversity and LGBT themes whilst simultaneously putting a modern twist on things. Currently on one finished book, ''A Study of Scarlett'' (''Literature/AStudyInScarlet''), with the second, ''Fangs of Sussex'' (''The Sussex Vampire'') having just begun.
* ''Webcomic/WhateverRemains'' is a webcomic adaptation set in the 1920s.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', a 1999 AnimatedAdaptation of Holmes RecycledINSPACE!
* "[[Recap/BraveStarrS1E53SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart1 Sherlock Holmes]] [[Recap/BraveStarrS1E54SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart2 in the 23rd Century]]", a two-part episode of the 1987 series ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}''
* Holmes and Watson appeared in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''. During their time, Jason Blood tried (and failed) to bring Batman to that time but Holmes completed the spell. Holmes was soon able to deduce Batman must have been born to some doctor or at least a wealthy man.
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockYack'' is another AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation.
* Sherlock, Watson and Lestrade appeared in few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/OrsonAndOlivia''.
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* ''Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective'', was released for PC, [=TurboDuo=], CTDV and Sega CD in the early '90s, as part of the FullMotionVideo craze that gripped gaming after the introduction of the CD-ROM format.
* One of the last InteractiveFiction games produced by Creator/{{Infocom}} was 1988's ''Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels'', in which the player takes the role of Watson.
* Electronic Arts' ''The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes'', sadly limited to two adventures (''The Case of the Serrated Scalpel'' and ''The Case of the Rose Tattoo'') were released in the 1990s to portray two Holmes cases [[{{Kayfabe}} considered "too hot to show"]].

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* While the actual storyline itself never came to fruition, Erin confirms that Sherlock Holmes is part of the ''WebComic/AndShineHeavenNow'' canon: Watson had wrote a book about a time when he and Sherlock crossed paths with [[Manga/PetShopOfHorrors Count D]], but he shelved it because he knew no one would believe it due to the more supernatural elements and he wanted to be taken seriously as an author. However, the manuscript survived in some fashion, as Integra had been told it as a bedtime story.