Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

Documentary 2024

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British historian Lucy Worsley delves into the complex love-hate relationship between Sherlock Holmes and the man who created him, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Documentary 2024

TV-PG

Starring Lucy Worsley

EPISODE 1

Doctor and Detective

The origins of Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's early life as a medical student in Edinburgh, and the author's growing disenchantment with his detective.

53 min · Dec 8, 2024 TV-PG
EPISODE 2

Fact and Fiction

Doyle's desire to distance himself from his own creation, Sherlock Holmes, after the character's apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls; how far Doyle went to make himself the hero of his own story.

52 min · Dec 15, 2024 TV-PG
EPISODE 3

Shadows and Sleuths

How would Arthur Conan Doyle’s new spiritualist beliefs change his famous detective Sherlock Holmes?

52 min · Dec 22, 2024 TV-PG

Lucy Worsley

Host
Simon George

Director
Amanda Lyon

Producer
Linda Sands

Producer
Rachel Jardine

Producer

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Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs. Doyle

DOCUMENTARY

British historian Lucy Worsley delves into the complex love-hate relationship between Sherlock Holmes and the man who created him, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Information

Studio: BBC2
Released: 2024
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Subtitles: English (United States) (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.