History Series / Sherlock

3 90-minute dramas form the initial run, starting July 2010 on {{BBC 1}} (the first episode "A Study in Pink" is based on "A Study in Scarlet", and the second is based on "The Dancing Men"); we may well get more.

* FetishFuel: The riding crop, and the scarf [[spoiler: particularly Holmes being choked by his scarf so many times in The Blind Baker. The fact he keeps wearing it despite this has led to several fangirls suspecting that it might be an in-verse fetish of Holmes. Either that, or it's just damned cold in London in February.]]
** Considering that this is [[BritishWeather England]] we're talking about, and that February is the last of the ''winter'' months (although it's generally warmer than earlier in the season), it could very well be [[JustifiedTrope justfied]].

* WithFriendsLikeThese: There's probably a reason John keeps insisting he's Sherlock's "colleague" and not his "friend" - friends aren't supposed to hand you objects used in a crime and then leave you explaining yourself to the police.

* FetishFuel: The riding crop, and the scarf [[spoiler: particularly Holmes being choked by his scarf so many times in The Blind Baker. The fact he keeps wearing it despite this has led to several fangirls suspecting that it might be an in-verse fetish of Holmes]]

* CypherLanguage: The code from ''The Blind Banker''. Also played with in one of the Hidden Messages on Sherlock's website. [[spoiler: The other's a SignificantAnagram.]]

* FetishFuel: The riding crop ...

* {{Subtext}}: Sherlock/Watson. Oh, and how!

* YouHaveFailedMe: In this respect, Moriarty is a traditionalist.

* ItWasHereISwear: In the second episode, John discovers a wall covered with vitally important graffiti; in the ten minutes it takes him to fetch Sherlock to show him the evidence, however, it's been painted over. [[Subverted: Good thing John took a picture with his camera phone.]]

* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler:What look like suicides in ''A Study In Pink'' turn out to be the work of a SerialKiller, albeit one that makes his victims kill themselves (by telling them they will be shot, unless they take the 50:50 chance on survival by choosing between a poisoned and unpoisoned pill) rather than killing them himself.]]

* SpeakFriendAndEnter: In a moment of awesomeness for John, he discovers the code that Sherlock has been searching for. He runs back, fetches his pal and...finds that the code has been painted over. Sherlock starts spinning John around in a circle in some odd attempt to sharpen his memory, ignoring John's protests that he can remember all of the code and [[ThePhilosopher waxing lyrical]] about the limitations of the (non-Shelockian) human memory. John, meanwhile, is trying to get the detective to stop messing him around so that he can reach his phone - he'd taken a photo of the entire wall.

**Discussed when Sherlock meets with an old friend, after Sherlock appears to scan him. Seems initially to be subverted, since Sherlock tells him that he actually knew about the guy travelling from talking to his secretary. John later questions this, resulting in it becoming double subverted when Sherlock admits that yes, that was a lie, and he really did deduce the travelling from Sheridan's watch.

* SherlockScan: With visual aids to help the audience follow Sherlock's thought processes, even! Discussed when Sherlock meets with an old friend, after Sherlock appears to scan him. Seems initially to be subverted, since Sherlock tells him that he actually knew about the guy travelling from talking to his secretary. John later questions this, resulting in it becoming double subverted when Sherlock admits that yes, that was a lie, and he really did deduce the travelling from Sheridan's watch.

* SherlockScan: With visual aids to help the audience follow Sherlock's thought processes, even!

* ImprovisedWeapon/[[ImprovisedArmour Armour]]: In the second episode. Sherlock [[spoiler:is attacked by someone wearing a mask and defends himself using a ''can of spray paint'']]; not to mention the fact that [[spoiler:said attacker is using a ''knife'' (and quite a large one at that).]]

* NoSympathy: Sherlock, in truly epic fashion. While the Granada and film versions of Holmes could be cold, neither sold their respective Watsons down the river the way this version does.

**In episode 2, Watson gets this: [[spoiler: Gets made the scapegoat for a vandal and is subsequently called into court for an Antisocial Behaviour Order, messes up his first day of work because he was working on a case all night, gets hauled along on Holmes' cases only to be abandoned/left in the dark halfway through them, has his date hijacked by Holmes, puts his foot in his mouth on said date out of frustration at Holmes' obtuseness and finally gets kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity and is forced to sweat until Holmes comes to his rescue (and fress his girlfriend). And, worse, he totally fails to kick any ass throughout).]]

Basically a modern-day version of Sherlock Holmes incorporating forensic technology and other stuff; however, it will be pretty faithful to the original tales in style. [[{{Atonement}} Benedict Cumberbatch]] plays Sherlock, with [[TheOffice Martin]] [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Freeman]] as John Watson. No, Sherlock won't be doing coke (Atleast not on screen). Absurd amounts of nicotine patches, on the other hand...