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Which Stories Did Bbc Sherlock Holmes Adapt From Doyle?

2025-08-23 20:51:18 236

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Quinn

2025-08-24 04:23:59

People often mean the modern BBC 'Sherlock' when they ask this, so here’s a compact list of the direct inspirations: 'A Study in Pink' → 'A Study in Scarlet'; 'A Scandal in Belgravia' → 'A Scandal in Bohemia'; 'The Hounds of Baskerville' → 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'; 'The Reichenbach Fall' → 'The Final Problem'; 'The Empty Hearse' → 'The Empty House'; 'The Sign of Three' borrows from 'The Sign of Four'; 'His Last Vow' is drawn from 'Charles Augustus Milverton'; 'The Lying Detective' echoes 'The Dying Detective'; 'The Six Thatchers' riffs on 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons'.

Several episodes ('The Blind Banker', 'The Great Game') are mostly original or composite pastiches, and 'The Abominable Bride' is an intentional Victorian pastiche of Doyle tropes. If you were asking about the classic BBC/Jeremy Brett series instead, that one adapts many more stories more literally — say so and I’ll dive into that list.

Kyle

2025-08-26 13:25:12

Honestly, I get asked this all the time when people binge 'Sherlock' and then pick up Doyle. The BBC show is a mash of faithful updates and creative pastiches: 'A Study in Pink' comes from 'A Study in Scarlet'; 'A Scandal in Belgravia' from 'A Scandal in Bohemia'; 'The Hounds of Baskerville' from 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'; 'The Reichenbach Fall' from 'The Final Problem'; 'The Empty Hearse' from 'The Empty House'; 'The Sign of Three' nods to 'The Sign of Four'; and 'The Six Thatchers' is a clear riff on 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons.'

Then you have episodes that are inspired rather than adapted straight: 'His Last Vow' borrows the Milverton blackmail plot, 'The Lying Detective' reshapes 'The Dying Detective', and 'The Abominable Bride' is a Victorian-style mash-up. A couple of episodes ('The Blind Banker', 'The Great Game') are mostly original but collect Doyle-ish clues and tricks. It’s a fun treasure hunt once you start matching scenes to stories.

Henry

2025-08-27 13:50:04

If you mean the BBC’s modern series 'Sherlock' (the Benedict Cumberbatch one), it mostly takes Conan Doyle stories and transplants them to modern London, sometimes almost shot-for-shot and sometimes only borrowing a single idea.

Clear, fairly direct lifts include 'A Study in Pink' → 'A Study in Scarlet' (the murder/ruse and the wordplay on a single word clue), 'A Scandal in Belgravia' → 'A Scandal in Bohemia' (the Irene Adler storyline), 'The Hounds of Baskerville' → 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' (the moor + monstrous hound theme), 'The Reichenbach Fall' → 'The Final Problem' (Holmes versus Moriarty, fall-from-height showdown), 'The Empty Hearse' → 'The Empty House' (Holmes’ return), 'The Sign of Three' borrows beats from 'The Sign of Four' (wedding and conspiratorial backstory), and 'The Six Thatchers' riffs on 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons' (busted busts replaced with smashed Thatcher busts).

Other episodes are looser: 'His Last Vow' pulls heavily from 'Charles Augustus Milverton' (blackmail) and borrows its title vibe from 'His Last Bow'; 'The Lying Detective' is a modern take on 'The Dying Detective' idea (Holmes feigning or exploiting illness to trap a villain). 'The Blind Banker' and 'The Great Game' are largely original but borrow motifs (ciphers, secret societies, Moriarty’s overarching threat). The 2016 special 'The Abominable Bride' is basically a Victorian pastiche that mixes Doyle tropes. If you like, I can list each episode with the exact Doyle story echoes and where the writers changed things — watching them back-to-back with the original tales is a weirdly addictive hobby of mine.

Zoe

2025-08-29 22:33:57

My take is a bit more pick-apart-and-compare: the show deliberately signals its Doyle debt by keeping many original titles and character beats, then updates them. For example, 'A Study in Pink' updates 'A Study in Scarlet' — it keeps the detective-and-sidekick dynamic and the core conceit of a staged suicide that’s actually murder. 'The Hounds of Baskerville' takes the gothic, science-and-superstition clash of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' and turns the hound into a drug-fueled hallucination with a clinical twist.

I like how 'His Last Vow' reimagines 'Charles Augustus Milverton' as Magnussen, keeping the theme of blackmail but making it media-era. 'The Reichenbach Fall' is clearly Doyle’s 'The Final Problem' in modern clothes — rooftop instead of falls, but same stakes and the faked death aftermath leading into 'The Empty House'/'The Empty Hearse'. 'The Six Thatchers' and 'The Adventure of the Six Napoleons' are a pleasant example of how a simple comic motif can become a political jab. 'The Abominable Bride' is essentially fanservice for Doyle fans — a pastiche that stitches Victorian elements from across the canon into one episode. All that said, a few episodes are mostly original creations that use Doyle motifs for texture rather than plot, so if you want a lesson-by-lesson map (episode → Doyle story → which beats match), I can sketch that out for each episode.

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