Line #34 DerivativeWorks/SherlockHolmes


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3	[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left]] ''Anime/SherlockHound'', ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', ''VideoGame/SherlockTheRiddleOfTheCrownJewels'', ''Film/EnolaHolmes2''[[/labelnote]]]]
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5	This page lists adaptations of Literature/SherlockHolmes stories and derivative works based on the character.
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7	!!Original works:
8	* '''''Literature/SherlockHolmes''''' canon by Sir Creator/ArthurConanDoyle:
9	** Novels:
10	*** ''Literature/AStudyInScarlet'' (1887)
11	*** ''Literature/TheSignOfTheFour'' (1890)
12	*** ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1902)
13	*** ''Literature/TheValleyOfFear'' (1915)
14	** Anthologies:
15	*** ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1892)
16	*** ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes'' (1894)
17	*** ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes'' (1905)
18	*** ''His Last Bow'' (1917)
19	*** ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'' (1927)
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21	!!Adaptations and derivative works:
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23	[[foldercontrol]]
24	[[index]]
25	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
26	* ''Anime/SherlockHound'', an {{anime}} adaptation that recast the characters as {{Funny Animal}}s and aired in 1984 and 1985.
27	* ''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.
28	* ''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.
29	* ''Anime/VampireHolmes'': An anime where Holmes is a vampire, as opposed to a detective.
30	[[/folder]]
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32	[[folder:Audio Plays]]
33	* Creator/BigFinish:
34	** ''Sherlock Holmes'', an audio series starring Creator/NicholasBriggs and Richard Earl as Holmes and Watson.
35	** Holmes, voiced again by Briggs and seemingly the same version from the Big Finish audio series, appears in ''AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray" story "Ghosts of Christmas Pasts".
36	** The 2015 audio adaptation of ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'' also had Briggs and Earl voice Holmes and Watson.
37	[[/folder]]
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39	[[folder:Comic Books]]
40	* ''ComicBook/BakerStreet''[[/index]]
41	* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Batman meets Sherlock Holmes in ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'' #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.
42	* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': ''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.
43	* ''ComicBook/KidSherlock''
44	* ''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.
45	* ''ComicBook/{{Moriarty}}''
46	* ''ComicBook/SherlockHolmesAndTheHorrorOfFrankenstein''
47	* ''ComicBook/VictorianUndead''
48	* ''ComicBook/WatsonAndHolmes''
49	* ''ComicBook/XMen'': In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, it was frequently implied -- and later ''ComicBook/ImmortalXMen'' explicitly confirmed the connection -- that Destiny, whose real name is "Irene Adler", was in fact ''the'' Irene Adler and that [[SamusIsAGirl her lover Mystique was herself Holmes]]. It appears that Destiny was also [[CompositeCharacter Watson]] by being Mystique's partner,with Doyle InUniverse basing his stories on them.[[index]]
50	[[/folder]]
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52	[[folder:Fanfiction]]
53	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.
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55	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) version of Holmes himself.
56	[[/folder]]
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58	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
59	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. Creator/{{Disney}}'s adaptation of ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''. The mice world of England has its own Sherlock Holmes, Basil that is, who lives inside the wall of Sherlock's own house in Baker Street.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes''.
61	* ''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.
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
65	[[AC:Crime/Mystery Films]]
66	* ''Film/SherlockHolmesBaffled'' (1900), silent film which lasts 30 seconds. Considered the earliest known detective movie due to Holmes's presence, even though the film was probably named so just for sake of using a famous name, and the character in the short has little to do with Holmes and doesn't do any detective work.
67	* ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes\|1916}}'' (1916), starring William Gillette.
68	* ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes\|Stoll Pictures}}'' (1921-1923). Stoll Pictures produced a series of 47 films, aiming to be faithful reproductions of the original canon. 45 of the 56 short stories were adapted as short films, with an additional 2 feature length entries dramatised from ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' and ''The Sign of Four'' respectively. Stage actor Eille Norwood played Holmes, with Hubert Willis playing Watson in all films except ''The Sign of Four'', when Arthur Cullin took over the part. To this day, Norwood's portrayal is widely praised by Holmes aficionados, even earning acclaim from Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
69	* ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes\|1922}}'' (1922), a.k.a ''Moriarty'', starring Creator/JohnBarrymore, adapted from the play, ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes''
70	* ''Film/TheSleepingCardinal'' (1931)
71	* ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes\|1932}}'' (1932)
72	* ''Film/TheSignOfFourSherlockHolmesGreatestCase'' (1932)
73	* ''Film/AStudyInScarlet'' (1933)
74	* ''Film/MurderAtTheBaskervilles'' (1937)[[/index]]
75	* ''Sherlock Holmes'' films starring Creator/BasilRathbone and Nigel Bruce:
76	** 20th Century Fox films (set in the Victorian era):[[index]]
77	*** ''Film/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (1939)
78	*** ''Film/{{The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes\|1939}}'' (1939)
79	** Universal films (setting moved to the 1940s):
80	*** ''Film/TheBakerStreetDozen'' (1942-1946)
81	* ''Film/{{The Hound of the Baskervilles\|1959}}'' (1959), the Film/HammerHorror adaptation starring Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes, André Morell as Watson and Creator/ChristopherLee as Sir Henry Baskerville. Cushing would later reprise the role on television.
82	* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheDeadlyNecklace'' (1962)
83	* ''Film/AStudyInTerror'' (1965), where Holmes confronts UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
84	* ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfSherlockHolmes'' (1970), directed by Creator/BillyWilder.
85	* ''Film/SherlockHolmesInNewYork'' (1976)
86	* ''Film/MurderByDecree'' (1979), starring Creator/ChristopherPlummer as Holmes and Creator/JamesMason as (a Non-Flanderized) Watson on the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case. The basis for the plot was the book ''Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution'' by Stephen Knight, the same book that would be the basis for Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/FromHell'' some years later. It was seen by some as a DarkerAndEdgier Sherlock Holmes movie but, given the subject matter, it's understandable.
87	* ''Film/{{The Hound of the Baskervilles\|1983}}'' (1983)
88	* ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'' (1985). A teenaged Holmes and Watson meet at a boarding school decades prior to their adult companionship. (Unusual in that it began with a disclaimer explaining that it is a "WhatIf" story).
89	* ''Film/NineteenNinetyFourBakerStreetSherlockHolmesReturns'' (1993)
90	* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'' (2002)
91	* ''Film/{{The Hound of the Baskervilles\|2002}}'' plays up Holmes's addiction and has several {{adaptation deviation}}s. Starring Creator/RichardRoxburgh as Holmes and Creator/IanHart as Watson.
92	* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAndTheCaseOfTheSilkStocking'' (2004)
93	* ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes\|Film Series}}'' film series by Creator/GuyRitchie starring Creator/RobertDowneyJr as Holmes and Creator/JudeLaw as Watson. The Holmesian film adaptations [[ActionizedAdaptation packing the most action]] by far. And perhaps the most [[HeterosexualLifePartners bromantic]] as well between Holmes and Watson.
94	** ''Film/{{Sherlock Holmes\|2009}}'' (2009)
95	** ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'' (2011)
96	* ''Film/SirArthurConanDoylesSherlockHolmes'' (2010): TheMockbuster from Creator/TheAsylum, made to piggyback on the 2009 Guy Ritchie film. Starring Ben Syder as Holmes and Gareth David-Lloyd as Watson. Oh, and, it's {{Steampunk}} and involves ''dinosaurs''.
97	* ''Film/MrHolmes'' (2015), starring Sir Creator/IanMcKellen as a 93 year old Holmes on a last case he wants to solve before he starts losing his mind. Based on the novel ''A Slight Trick of the Mind''.
98	* ''Film/TheReturnOfSherlockHolmes'' (2016)
99	* ''Film/{{Enola Holmes\|Film Series}}'' film series adapting the [[Literature/EnolaHolmes novel series of the same name]] by Nancy Springer. Creator/MillieBobbyBrown stars as Holmes' non-canon little sister Enola, while Sherlock is played by Creator/HenryCavill.
100	** ''Film/EnolaHolmes'' (2020)
101	** ''Film/EnolaHolmes2'' (2022)
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103	[[AC:Comedy/Parody Films]]
104	* ''[[Film/LelicekInTheServiceOfSherlockHolmes Lelíček in the service of Sherlock Homes]]'' (1932), Czechoslovak film that combines Sherlock Holmes with ''Literature/ThePrisonerOfZenda''. Holmes (played by Martin Fric) is hired by the Prime Minister of Portorico to find a double for their weak and cowardly king Fernando XXIII. Holmes finds Lelíček, a streetwise debt-plagued man from Prague (played by Czech comedy legend Vlasta Burian). Then, while Holmes dismantles a conspiracy against the king, Lelíček manages to survive several attempts on the "king's" life and falls in love with the queen.
105	* ''Film/TheManWhoWasSherlockHolmes'' (1937), German film. Two unsuccessful private detectives (played by Hans Albers and Heinz Rühmann) decide to drum up interest by dressing up as Holmes and Watson. They are met with great deference everywhere, solve the theft of valuable stamps, but are put on trial for impersonation, where they insist that they told everybody that they ''weren't'' Holmes and Watson. Conan Doyle is shown laughing his head off in the courtroom audience and mentioning that Holmes and Watson are fictional characters he invented, which means the movie must be set before 1930.
106	* ''Film/{{They Might Be Giants\|1971}}'' (1971). Starred Creator/GeorgeCScott as a man who thought he was Sherlock Holmes, and Joanne Woodward as his psychiatrist, whose name was Watson. The film itself took its name from a line in ''Literature/DonQuixote''.
107	* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'' (1975). Creator/GeneWilder's directorial debut. It stars Wilder as Sherlock's (self-proclaimed) smarter younger brother Siegerson, who attempts to thwart Moriarty on his own.
108	* ''Film/{{The Hound of the Baskervilles\|1978}}'' (1978), starring Creator/DudleyMoore, Creator/PeterCook and Creator/TerryThomas.
109	* ''Film/MyDearlyBelovedDetective'' (1986). Soviet film. Not quite an adaptation, since Holmes and Watson are stated to be fictional in-story. However, [[DistaffCounterpart two ladies]] with the last names of Holmes and Watson decide to enter the business...
110	* ''Film/WithoutAClue'' (1988). The Holmes/Watson roles are reversed, with Watson (Creator/BenKingsley) as the real detective and "Holmes" (Creator/MichaelCaine) as an alcoholic actor hired by Watson as his public front ala ''Series/RemingtonSteele''.
111	* ''Film/ZeroEffect'' (1998). A modern-dress US adaptation of "A Scandal in Bohemia", with the Holmes and Watson figures renamed Daryl Zero (Creator/BillPullman) and Steve Arlo (Creator/BenStiller). Despite the name changes, the plot and characters are instantly recognizable.
112	* ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' (2018). Stars Creator/WillFerrell and Creator/JohnCReilly as the title characters, with a supporting cast consisting of Creator/RebeccaHall, Creator/LaurenLapkus, Creator/RobBrydon, Creator/KellyMacdonald, Creator/SteveCoogan, Creator/RalphFiennes and Creator/HughLaurie.
113	[[/folder]]
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115	[[folder:Literature (post-Conan Doyle)]]
116	* ''Literature/TheAngelOfTheCrows''
117	* ''Literature/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]].
118	* ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet''
119	* ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney''
120	* ''Literature/DrJekyllAndMrHolmes''
121	* ''Literature/TheEmpireOfCorpses'' has Watson as the main character and 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.
122	* ''Literature/EnolaHolmes''
123	* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles''
124	* ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk''
125	* ''Literature/TheInfernalDevice'' and sequel books focused on Professor Moriarty by Creator/MichaelKurland.
126	* ''Literature/TheItalianSecretary''
127	* ''Literature/LockAndMori''
128	* The fanfiction and published pastiches of Creator/MarciaWilson.
129	* ''Literature/MaryRussell''
130	* ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}''
131	* ''Literature/ProfessorMoriartySeries''
132	* ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution''
133	* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesAndDoctorWasNot'' - An anthology of {{Elseworlds}} stories where Holmes is paired with a doctor other than Watson.
134	* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesOfBakerStreet''
135	* ''Literature/TheSherlockHolmesStoriesOfEdwardDHoch''
136	* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Game's Afoot'' - A compilation of short stories written by multiple authors
137	* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesVsDracula''
138	* ''Literature/TheSherlockian''
139	* ''Literature/SherlockInLove''
140	* ''Literature/SolarPons''
141	* ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald''
142	* ''Literature/AStudyInCharlotte''
143	* ''Literature/UndeadGirlMurderFarce'': Alongside other VictorianLondon characters, Holmes and Watson appear and play a major role in the second arc. Moriarty serves as the novels' overarching BigBad.
144	* ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes''
145	* ''Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota'' series places Sherlock and Watson in Minnesota, working with [[RailroadBaron James J. Hill]] to solve crimes. Many historic characters such as [[UsefulNotes/JohnWilkesBooth Boston Corbett]] and incidents are included.
146	[[/index]]
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149	* Adrian Conan Doyle (son of Arthur Conan Doyle) and Creator/JohnDicksonCarr (Doyle's biographer and friend) wrote a series of short stories called ''The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes'', supposedly the accounts of the cases that Watson mentioned but never made it to the original 56 short stories. Some consider it canon, for being written by Arthur Conan Doyle's son, and treat it as the tenth volume of Sherlock Holmes canon, but many more don't for the obvious fact that it wasn't written or approved by Arthur Conan Doyle (it was written and published after his death) and it was co-written by an unrelated author. Sequels were expected but never produced, mainly because the authors got in a dispute over who wrote what.
150	* Nicholas Meyer's novel (later adapted to film), ''Literature/TheSevenPercentSolution'' proposed that the Moriarty stories were complete fictions invented by Watson to cover for Holmes's recovery from cocaine addiction. (This was to explain the canon's apparent contradiction of Moriarty dying in the story that ''introduced'' him, yet figuring in other prequel stories.) In the story, Moriarty is revealed as Holmes's childhood maths tutor, whom Holmes had cast as a criminal in his drug-induced delirium. The story ends with a departing Holmes suggesting that Watson explain his absence to the readers by telling them he'd been murdered by his math tutor.
151	* Laurie R. King's ''Literature/MaryRussell'' series takes place in the 1910s-20s. The title character, a young woman who comes to live on the Sussex Downs after being orphaned in a car accident, meets the retired Holmes there and becomes first his protege and later his wife.
152	* Robert L. Fish's ridiculously pun-packed Schlock Homes stories...where to begin...
153	** Some titles of stories: "The Adventure of the Printer's Inc.", "The Adventure of the Spectacled Band" (there is a Holmes adventure of the ''speckled'' band), "The Adventure of the Snared Drummer", "The Adventure of the Perforated Ulster", "The Adventure of the Dog in the Knight", "The Adventure of the Artist's Mottle"
154	** Watney's first paragraph of "The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarters":
155	--> "My notes for the early part of the year '65 contain several instances of more than passing interest for those who follow the adventures of my friend Mr. Schlock Homes. There was, for example, his brilliant solution to the mysterious gunning down of a retired boilermaker, a case which I find listed as ''The Adventure of the Shot and the Bier''; and there is also reference to the intriguing business of the hitchhiking young actress, noted in my journal as ''The Adventure of the Ingenue's Thumb''." (There's a Holmes adventure of the ''engineer's'' thumb.)
156	* The ''Literature/EnolaHolmes'' series by Nancy Springer, which depicts the adventures of the much younger sister of Sherlock. On top of each mystery, the overall plot arc is the eventual reconciliation of the Holmes siblings as Enola finds that she is a match for her brother in every way for her age and Sherlock learns to admire his brilliant sister as a professional colleague. It has [[Film/EnolaHolmes a film adaptation]] released on Netflix in 2020, starring Creator/MillieBobbyBrown as the titular main character and Creator/HenryCavill as the great detective himself.
157	* Creator/MichaelChabon's 2004 novella ''Literature/TheFinalSolution'', in which Holmes (never named directly, but it is clearly him), a 90ish old man living in country retirement as a beekeeper, tries to locate a German Jewish boy's stolen parrot.
158	* Andrew Lane's ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'' series (not to be confused with the movie of the same name), chronicling a [[TeenGenius teenage Sherlock's]] adventures. These stand to be the only teen novels endorsed by the Doyle Estate.
159	** As Andy Lane, he'd earlier written ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', a Literature/{{Doctor Who New Adventure\|s}} crossing Holmes over with the Doctor, Ace and Benny. It was later adapted by Creator/BigFinish, who also made it a ''de facto'' crossover with their own regular Sherlock Holmes series, mentioned below.
160	* ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'', later adapted by Creator/{{Disney}} as ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''. A FunnyAnimal version of the mythos, and many a child's first exposure to Sherlock Holmes. Basil's name is an obvious ShoutOut to Creator/BasilRathbone. In the film, Rathbone himself even has a vocal cameo (albeit one well after his death) as Holmes himself.
161	* ''Literature/SherlockHolmesOfBakerStreet'', a popular tongue-in-cheek "biography" of Sherlock Holmes written in 1962 by W.S. Baring-Gould, has been the source of many interesting theories about Holmes, some of which are often assumed to be canon (even in this very entry). These include the idea that the King of Bohemia was Edward [=VII=]; that Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler became lovers in Montenegro during the time Holmes was hiding from Moran, and that Irene returned to New Jersey to bear his child, a boy later known as Literature/NeroWolfe [[note]]This was actually suggested to him by Creator/RexStout, the writer of the Nero Wolfe novels, but given that Stout once wrote a paper suggesting that Watson was a woman...[[/note]]; that Holmes in his twenties was a stage actor in a company that toured America; that he worked on the UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper case; that Watson had three wives; that Holmes's bee-keeping in later years was intended as a way of producing royal jelly, then thought of as a "fountain of youth"; and that Holmes died in the 1950s after spending the war years - when he would have been roughly 90 years old - fighting Nazis. In ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', the title character, Siegerson, is named for Baring-Gould's Holmes ''pere''. As a way of freeing up Sherlock and Mycroft for their various occupations while still ensuring they were members of the "right" class, Baring-Gould invented Sherringford, the eldest--and smartest--brother, who stayed home in Yorkshire to take care of the responsibilities of a country squire. Sherringford was Holmes's original name in Doyle's first draft of ''A Study in Scarlet''.
162	* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'' by Creator/KimNewman focuses on Professor Moriarty and his subordinate, Sebastian Moran, as they share a series of adventures that oddly echo Holmes's famous cases and have them meeting [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover numerous other characters from Victorian and Edwardian fiction]]. The last story in the collection, "The Problem of the Final Adventure", retells "The Final Problem" from Moran's point of view.
163	** Titan Books, Newman's publisher, has an ongoing series of Holmes pastiches.
164	* ''Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries'' is Sherlock Holmes in "Bugland," where everyone is an insect. Holmes is Inspector Mantis, a praying mantis, and Watson is Doctor Hopper.
165	* In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/TimePatrol'', the Victorian era office would like to hire a contemporary detective, but the only one clever enough is probably clever enough to figure out the Time Patrol. Other clues make it clear who this unnamed detective is.
166	* ''Literature/TheHouseOfSilk'', by Creator/AnthonyHorowitz, follows two crimes that end up closely linked, one where a family is being hounded by an American gang boss and another where Holmes searches for the elusive House of Silk. Notable in that it's the first novel that the Conan Doyle Estate has endorsed.
167	** Horowitz has since published a follow-up, ''Literature/{{Moriarty}}'', which begins immediately after the encounter at Reichenbach Falls.
168	* ''The Holmes/Dracula Files'' by Fred Saberhagen, a {{Crossover}} novel that's pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; Sherlock Holmes meets {{Dracula}}. Also used to explain [[NoodleIncident The Giant Rat of Sumatra]].
169	* Brazilian TV personality Jô Soares (a veteran TV comedian, now known for his Creator/DavidLetterman-style talk show) wrote a book titled "O Xangô de Baker Street". In that book, Holmes was described as knowing the Portuguese language, which helped him since he went to Brazil to try to figure out the identity of a serial killer. His portrayal in that book had him misinterpret clues. He [[spoiler:failed, which was attributed to his lack of knowledge of how musical notes were known in Brazil. The culprit, whose identity was revealed to the readers, moved to England and was implied to be UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper]].
170	* ''[[Literature/DustAndShadow Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson]]'', by Lyndsay Faye. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
171	* ''Bert Coules'', the writer who set out to dramatize the entire canon for BBC radio, also wrote 15 dramatizations of his own, available from the BBC as ''The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''.
172	* Contained in Creator/StephenKing's short-fiction collection ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'' is the Sherlock Holmes pastiche "The Doctor's Case." A shipping magnate has been murdered in what Lestrade describes as "the perfect locked-room mystery"; Holmes and Watson investigate, and the solution takes an unusual and surprising turn.
173	* Denis O. Smith's ''The Lost Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes'' is twelve new cases from Holmes' early years, in a fair imitation of Doyle's style.
174	* Creator/MichaelKurland's Moriarty novels, beginning with ''Literature/TheInfernalDevice'', are a PerspectiveFlip in which Moriarty is the protagonist.
175	* Donald Thomas has published multiple short stories and novella pastiches featuring Holmes and Watson, most recently ''The Execution of Sherlock Holmes and Other New Adventures of the Great Detective.''
176	* Loren D. Estleman has published crossover novels featuring Holmes meeting up with Literature/{{Dracula}} and [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Jekyll and Hyde.]]
177	* In the early 2000s, David Pirie wrote three novels featuring Arthur Conan Doyle and Joseph Bell as the detectives. Although the novels are self-enclosed, the larger plot arc remains [[OrphanedSeries unfinished.]]
178	* Michael Dibdin's take on Sherlock Holmes and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, ''The Last Sherlock Holmes Story.'' [[spoiler: Holmes ''is'' Jack. He's also Moriarty.]]
179	* H. Paul Jeffers' ''The Stalwart Companions'' pairs a young Holmes with future US President UsefulNote/TheodoreRoosevelt, who also narrates the story.
180	* ''The Veiled Detective'' by David Stuart Davies, is a twist on the canon by revealing "Watson" to be employed by Moriarty, who planted him in Baker Street to keep an eye on Holmes.
181	* Creator/ManlyWadeWellman wrote one short story in which a by-then elderly Holmes and Watson stop a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi agent]] from setting up an invasion of England in 1940. He also wrote a novel in which Sherlock, Watson, and Sherlock's cousin Literature/ProfessorChallenger help to stop [[AlienInvasion the War of the Worlds]]. Rather disliked by some fans for setting up a romance between Holmes and Mrs. Hudson.
182	* Robert Ryan has three novels and a forthcoming collection of short stories in which the primary detective is Watson, not Holmes. They're set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
183	* Creator/NeilGaiman's 2003 story ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'' puts Sherlock Holmes characters in a Franchise/CthulhuMythos setting, where the Earth is ruled by the Great Old Ones.
184	** Gaiman's other short story ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney'' ties together Sherlock's post-retirement bee-keeping and the canon GenreShift story ''The Adventure Of the Creeping Man'', portraying an elderly Sherlock trying to find a source of eternal youth.
185	* Bob Garcia's novels (for some reason they don't appear to be translated into English as of 2016, although they are available in a few other languages). A fair deal more horror than canon.
186	* G. S. Denning's ''Warlock Holmes'' series is an AffectionateParody of the canon, in which Holmes is a CloudCuckooLander wizard [[Really700YearsOld over two centuries old]] whose mind is [[DemonicPossession filled with demons]], Watson is the actual brains of the outfit and (usually) OnlySaneMan, and Lestrade is a vampire.
187	* The ''Inspector Lestrade'' series by M. J. Trow, portraying him as a skilled detective who is very irritated that John Watson chose to make him look like an idiot to make Holmes look good. The end of the third volume reveals [[spoiler: that during a rest cure in the Swiss Alps, Holmes murdered a certain professor of mathematics under the impression the man was ''Watson''.]]
188	* Mick Finlay's ''Arrowood'' series follows one of Holmes's sleuthing rivals. Accompanied by his own Watson in the form of Norman Barnett, William Arrowood is a self-taught psychologist and private investigator who values understanding the psyche over physical evidence, and despises Holmes with a passion.
189	* The ''Irregular'' thrillers by H.B. Lyle focus on Wiggins, the now grown up leader of the Baker Street Irregulars, as he becomes a secret service agent.
190	* ''Two Hundred and Twenty One Baker Streets'' is an anthology of stories re-imagining Holmes in many different times and places, from 17th century Scotland and 1970s New York to contemporary South Africa and a robot-populated far future.
191	* Keisuke Matsuoka's ''Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan'' has Holmes going to Japan after defeating Moriarty in Reichenbach Falls and investigating a scandal that would ruin the fragile relations between the Meiji-era Japan and the Tsarist Russia. He also teams up with Hirobumi Ito, the first Prime Minister of Japan.
192	* James Lovegrove's ''The Cthulhu Casebooks'' trilogy which is a crossover between Holmes and the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
193	* Former NBA legend, Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar, wrote a book series about Sherlock's older brother, Mycroft Holmes.
194	* Sherry Thomas's ''Lady Sherlock'' series is about Charlotte Holmes, who invents the Sherlock identity in order to be taken seriously as a detective.
195	* Michael Hardwick (who had previously adapted one Holmes story for radio and two for television, and written the novelization of the film ''The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'') wrote two Holmes novels, ''The Prisoner of the Devil'' (1979, in which Holmes is called in to investigate the Dreyfuss Affair) and ''The Revenge of the Hound'' (1987, in which Holmes investigates a supposed return of the Hound of the Baskervilles). He later wrote ''The Private Life of Dr. Watson'', Watson's memoirs of his life before meeting Holmes, and Holmes' own memoirs, ''Sherlock Holmes: My Life and Crimes''.
196	* Leonard Goldberg is writing the ''Daughter of Sherlock Holmes'' series, about the adventures of Joanne Blalock - the illegitimate daughter of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler (the result of an unintended drug-induced one night stand rather than any sort of romance) - and John Watson, Jr in 1914 London.
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198
199	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
200	* Holmes first appeared on television in 1937.
201	* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1951), the first regular TV series based on Holmes' exploits, airing on the BBC with Alan Wheatley as Holmes and Raymond Francis as Watson.
202	* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1954), a syndicated TV series filmed in France and starring Ronald Howard and Howard Marion-Crawford as Holmes and Watson.
203	* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1964), a series of adaptations in 1964-65 and 1968 starring Douglas Wilmer and later Creator/PeterCushing as Holmes and Creator/NigelStock as Watson.
204	* ''Series/TheRivalsOfSherlockHolmes'' (1971, 1973) mentions Holmes by name in the title but is actually an anthology of ''other'' fictional detectives of the same period.
205	* ''The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It'' (1977), a comedic TV special starring Creator/JohnCleese as Holmes' grandson Arthur Sherlock Holmes. Creator/ArthurLowe played Dr. William Watson, the original doctor's grandson.
206	* ''Series/FantasyIsland'' had at least one story in which a guest wanted to be/meet the World's Greatest Detective.
207	[[index]]
208	* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSherlockHolmesAndDoctorWatson'' (1979-1983). A [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet]] series in Russian language 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 (surprisingly for a Soviet citizen). It's also provided fodder for a lot of [[RussianHumor Russian jokes]] (but then again, what doesn't?).
209	[[/index]]
210	* ''Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson'' (1979-1980), a 24-part series with Geoffrey Whitehead and Donald Pickering as Holmes and Watson. The series' producer, Sheldon Reynolds, also produced the Ronald Howard version.
211	* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (BBC, 1982), with Creator/TomBaker starred as the Great Detective. He claimed that the BBC apologised for both the production and his performance.
212	[[index]]
213	* 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.
214	* ''Series/SherlockHolmes'' (1984-1994), produced by Granada Television (ITV), starring Creator/JeremyBrett, David Burke, and Edward Hardwicke. 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.
215	* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' was a duology of miniseries featuring Creator/ChristopherLee as the fifty-six-year-old Holmes and Creator/PatrickMacnee as the fifty-eight-year-old Watson. The two miniseries included ''Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady'' and ''Incident at Victoria Falls'' and featured appearances by historical domain characters such as Sigmund Freud, Elliot Ness, Lillie Langtry, Theodore Roosevelt and, an appearance by A. J. Raffles, the famed creation of Doyle's brother-in-law E. W. Hornung.
216	* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes'' (1997-2000) was a Canadian series about the great-grandniece of Sherlock Holmes solving crimes.
217	* ''[[Series/MurderRooms Murder Rooms: The Dark Origins of Sherlock Holmes]]'' is a 2000 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.
218	* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' (2010-2017), a BBC series. Created by Creator/StevenMoffat and Creator/MarkGatiss, the series stars Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as Sherlock and Creator/MartinFreeman as 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.
219	* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' (2012-2017), Creator/{{CBS}} series starring Creator/JonnyLeeMiller as Holmes and Creator/LucyLiu as [[GenderFlip Joan Watson]]. Sherlock goes to UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity after [[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 as they solve cases together 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.
220	* ''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.
221	* ''Series/MissSherlock'' (2018), 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.]]
222	* ''Sherlock: Untold Stories,'' a {{Japanese\|Media}} series released [[SettingUpdate and set]] in 2019 UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}, following the adventures of Shishio Homare (a freelance crime consultant, played by Dean Fujioka) and Junichi Wakamiya (a psychiatrist, played by Takanori Iwata) as they partner up to solve crimes.
223	* ''Sherlock in Russia'' (also known as ''Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles''), a 2020 Russian series, has Holmes (Maksim Matveyev) going to St. Petersburg, Russia to capture UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.
224	[[/index]]
225	[[index]]
226	* ''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.
227	[[/index]]
228	* And a large number of made-for-TV-movies, starring such actors as Creator/TomBaker, Creator/LarryHagman, Creator/RogerMoore, Creator/RichardRoxburgh, Creator/RupertEverett, and Creator/MattFrewer.
229	* 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 (Rupert Fraser) as a consulting detective to help him solve the case.
230	* ''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''.
231	* ''Watson'', an upcoming CBS series created by Craig Sweeny, (formerly a writer and producer on ''Elementary'') about Dr. Watson resuming his medical career a year after Holmes' demise. Creator/MorrisChestnut will star.
232	* ''Sherlock & Daughter'', an upcoming series from Creator/TheCW, features an older Holmes solving crimes alongside Amelia Rojas, a young American woman who may be his daughter. Creator/DavidThewlis will star as Holmes alongside Creator/BluHunt as Amelia and Creator/DougrayScott as Moriarty.
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234
235	[[folder:Radio and Audio]]
236	* ''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 (of ''Series/FawltyTowers'' fame) replaced him as Watson.
237	[[/index]]
238	* 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, although an excerpt from the play that was recorded in 1936 by the 82 year old Gillette does survive.
239	* Creator/OrsonWelles played Holmes in adaptation of Gillette's melodrama in an episode of his famous ''Radio/TheMercuryTheatreOnTheAir''.
240	* 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]])
241	* [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio]] has done numerous Holmes dramas over the years. Amongst the most famous are:
242	** ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1954-55), a 16 episode series starring Sir Creator/JohnGielgud as Holmes and Sir Creator/RalphRichardson as Watson. The show was co-produced with ABC Radio which meant that Creator/OrsonWelles guest-starred as Professor Moriarty.
243	** Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley played Holmes and Watson in over 80 different dramas from 1952 to 1969.
244	* Blackstone Audio's The Hollywood Theatre of the Ear did a boxset called ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Theater'' which featured Creator/MartinJarvis 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''.
245	* 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 Creator/NicholasBriggs (in the regular episodes). Briggs' Holmes has also met the Creator/BigFinish version of [[AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray Dorian Gray]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire the Doctor himself]].
246	* A very abridged 2017 adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' from indie Canadian company Bleak December, with Creator/DerekJacobi as Holmes.
247	* {{Creator/Amazon}}'s audiobook service Audible, has produced several Holmes-based audio plays in recent years:
248	** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason'' (2020), an original tale by Creator/GeorgeMann and Cavan Scott, with Nicholas Boulton as Holmes and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Watson.
249	** A 2021 adaptation of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' also by Mann and Scott. Stars Creator/ColinSalmon as Holmes, Creator/StephenFry as Watson and Creator/MeeraSyal as CanonForeigner Mother Greep.
250	** ''Clockwork Sherlock'' (2021), an audiobook written by Ian W. Sainsbury and read by Shvorne Marks. Captain Jo Barnes becomes the Watson substitute alongside a VR version of Holmes.
251	** ''[[Radio/TheDevilsGame Moriarty: The Devil's Game]]'' (2022). A 10-episode scripted podcast by Charles Kindinger depicting Moriarty as an innocent mathematics professor, who becomes a fugitive after being falsely accused of murder. The production stars Creator/DominicMonaghan as Moriarty, Creator/BillyBoyd as Colonel Sebastian Moran and Creator/PhilLamarr as Sherlock Holmes, with Creator/AdamGodley as Dr. Watson, Creator/CurtisArmstrong as Inspector Gregson, Josh Robert Thompson as Inspector Lestrade, and Creator/RebeccaMader as Mary Watson.
252	** ''The Baker Street Four'' (2023). An adaptation of the graphic novel series by Olivier Legrand, J.B. Djian, and David Etien. Starring Creator/PatersonJoseph as Holmes and Creator/BillNighy as Watson the cat.
253	* ''[[Podcast/SherlockAndCo Sherlock & Co.]],'' released in 2023 by Goalhanger Productions, provides a SettingUpdate to the modern day and reimagines Watson as a true crime podcaster.
254	* ''Fawx & Stallion'' focuses on Hampton Fawx and James Stallion, fellow Baker Street residents, and rival consulting detectives who live across the street at number 224B. When Holmes and Watson leave town on business, Fawx and Stallion get the chance to finally prove themselves when their own case falls into their laps.
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256
257	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
258	[[index]]
259	* ''TabletopGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective''
260	[[/folder]]
261
262	[[folder:Theatre]]
263	* ''Theatre/TheSecretOfSherlockHolmes''
264	* ''Theatre/SherlockHolmes'', 1899 play written by and starring William Gillette. 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.
265	* ''Theatre/TheSpeckledBand'' - adapted by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself.
266	* ''Theatre/TheCruciferOfBlood'' - An adaptation 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 Creator/JeremyBrett was his Watson).
267	* 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.]]
268	* 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.]]
269	* There have been several Holmes musicals over the years, including:
270	** ''Baker Street'' (1965, music by Marian Grudeff, Raymond Jessel and Jerry Bock, lyrics by Grudeff, Jessel and Sheldon Harnick, book by Jerome Coopersmith)
271	** ''Sherlock Holmes: The Musical'' aka ''The Revenge of Sherlock Holmes'' (1988, music and lyrics by Creator/LeslieBricusse)
272	** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels'' (2015, book, music and lyrics by Janet Yates Vogt and Mark Friedman)
273	** ''Sherlock: The Musical'' (2022, music and lyrics by Denning Burton, book by Burton and Stefan van de Graaff)
274	** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Poisonwood'' (2024, music by Ben Glasstone, book by P Burton-Morgan, lyrics by Burton-Morgan and Glasstone)
275	[[/folder]]
276
277	[[folder:Video Games]]
278	* Three Sherlock Holmes games were released on the Famicom, but none of them outside Japan:
279	** ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesHakushakuReijouYuukaiJiken'' (1986) ("The Case of the Kidnapped Countess"), an action-adventure game which wasn't received well.
280	** ''VideoGame/MeitanteiHolmesKiriNoLondonSatsujinJiken'' (1988) ("The Great Detective Holmes: The Murder Case in Foggy London") an adventure game.
281	** ''VideoGame/MeitanteiHolmesMKaraNoChousenjou'' (1989) ("The Great Detective Holmes: M's Challenge"), an adventure game.
282	* ''VideoGame/SherlockHolmesConsultingDetective'' was released for PC, [=TurboDuo=], CTDV and Sega CD in the early '90s, as part of the InteractiveMovie craze that gripped gaming after the introduction of the CD-ROM format.
283	* ''VideoGame/{{Sherlock\|1984}}'' (1984): An InteractiveFiction game.
284	* ''VideoGame/SherlockTheRiddleOfTheCrownJewels'' (1988): One of the last InteractiveFiction games produced by Creator/{{Infocom}}, in which the player takes the role of Watson.
285	* ''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"]].
286	* ''VideoGame/{{Sherlock Holmes\|Frogwares}}'' series of puzzle/adventure games, which has been developed by Frogwares since 2002.
287	* ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' [[note]]Applies only to the Japanese version. The Western version [[WritingAroundTrademarks altered the names of all the Holmes-related elements]] due to not being a PublicDomainCharacter in all countries.[[/note]]
288	* ''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.]]
289	* ''VideoGame/{{Crimesight}}'' (2022): An online co-op mystery simulation game by Creator/{{Konami}} where four players get to play as an A.I. based on Sherlock, Watson, Irene and Moriarty.
290	[[/folder]]
291
292	[[folder:Webcomics]]
293	* 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.
294	* ''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.
295	* ''Webcomic/WhateverRemains'' is a webcomic adaptation set in the 1920s.
296	[[/folder]]
297
298	[[folder:Western Animation]]
299	* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'', a 1999 AnimatedAdaptation of Holmes RecycledINSPACE!
300	* "[[Recap/BraveStarrS1E53SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart1 Sherlock Holmes]] [[Recap/BraveStarrS1E54SherlockHolmesInThe23rdCenturyPart2 in the 23rd Century]]", a two-part episode of the 1987 series ''WesternAnimation/BraveStarr''
301	* 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.
302	* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockYack'' is another AnthropomorphicAnimalAdaptation.
303	* Sherlock, Watson and Lestrade appeared in few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/OrsonAndOlivia''.
304	[[/folder]]
305
306	[[folder:Audiobook readers]]
307	* Creator/BenedictCumberbatch (Narrated John Taylor's ''Sherlock Holmes' Rediscovered Railway Mysteries & other stories'' for {{AudioGo}}/BBC Audio)
308	* Creator/TimCurry (Narrated Creator/StephenKing's ''The Doctor's Case'')
309	* John Telfer (Narrated Donald Thomas's pastiches)
310	* Jenny Sterlin (Narrated Laurie R. King's Literature/MaryRussell series)
311	* Katherine Kellgren (Narrated Nancy Springer's Literature/EnolaHolmes series)
312	[[/folder]]

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