Lucy Worsley's Holmes vs Doyle

Season 1

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective in the world. For more than a century, he’s intrigued his fans with his intellect and powers of deduction. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Now, historian and lifelong Holmes fan Lucy Worsley investigates this curious relationship between Holmes and Doyle; detective and author.

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S1 E1 - Doctor and Detective
December 9, 2023
59min
TV-14
World famous detective Sherlock Holmes brought Arthur Conan Doyle fame and fortune. So why did he choose to kill the character off, only 6 years after he first appeared in print? Historian Lucy Worsley investigates this curious love/hate relationship between Holmes and Doyle; detective and author.
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S1 E2 - Fact and Fiction
December 9, 2023
59min
TV-14
Without Sherlock Holmes, how far would Doyle go to become the hero of his own story?
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S1 E3 - Shadows and Sleuths
December 21, 2024
59min
TV-14
Doyle began the Edwardian age delighting in all it had to offer, but as the First World War approached, Lucy finds that the darkness of the later stories mirrored the reality of Doyle’s life. After the loss of his eldest son, he became an evangelist for spiritualism and his star declined after a public spat. Sherlock Holmes, in contrast, found a life beyond his author, on stage and screen.
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