knows the name. Everybody knows
Sherlock Holmes - or thinks they do.
But few know the true story of Conan
Doyle's remarkable life, fewer still the
extent to which Doy;e suppressed and
sanitised the pain of Holmes' birth.
Set between 1892 and the early 1900s, this
feature length drama for BBC2 was written
explored the dark family past that drove
Conan Doyle (depicted by Douglas Henshall)
to create fiction's greatest detective, then
kill him off.
The genesis of Sherlock Holmes was recently
examined by Lucy Worsley in Killing Sherlock.
Originally shown in the summer of 2005, this BBC Scotland production was
repeated on Talking Pictures TV tonight - it featured Brian Cox (as Doyle's
mentor, Dr. Joseph Bell), Emily Blunt, Sinéad Cusack, and these six Doctor
Who cast and crew connections:
- Saskia Reeves (Louise) voiced Carmen Rega for Big Finish's Emissary of the Daleks (2019), then was both Maddelena Fagandini and Mary Wollstonecraft in Delia: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
- Tim McInnerney (Selden/Sherlock here; Clay in The Red Headed League; Ferret in Fairy Tale; Sir Eustace in The Abominable Bride) was Klineman Halpern in Planet of the Ood, then voiced Admiral Dolne for The Well-Mannered War (2015), and the eponymous role for Puccini and the Doctor (2024)
- Cox voiced the Ood Elder in The End of Time, then portrayed Sydney Newman in An Adventure in Space and Time
- Anthony Calf (Walker here; Hodson in Fairy Tale) made his TV debut as Charles in The Visitation, was Colonel Godsacre in Empress of Mars, and voiced Lord Barset for Frozen Time (2007), and Cal for Zero Space (2018)
- Derek Ritchie was also producer of The Doctor's Meditation, Under the Lake, Before the Flood, The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived and Class, following script editing duties on The Time of the Doctor, Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, The Caretaker and The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
- ADR editor Nick Roberts was sound recordist on The Time of Angels, Flesh and Stone, The Vampires of Venice, Cold Blood and The Lodger
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