Sherlock
Season 1
3 listed hours · 2010–2017 · BBC/PBS
From the desk
How this season is filed
Holmes in texting-era London: Cumberbatch and Freeman as a global double act, mind palaces, on-screen texts, Moriarty as fandom sport. Gatiss and Moffat's movie-length BBC/PBS events made hiatuses feel like hostage situations. Modern Doyle for the GIF age — appointment mystery with waits that became part of the phenomenon.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Sherlock (2010–2017) on BBC/PBS as the first listed season of 4 — 3 listed hours, 2010-07-25–2010-08-08 from “A Study in Pink” (S01E01) to “The Great Game” (S01E03). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 A Study in Pink
A Study in Pink launches Cumberbatch and Freeman as a GIF-age double act — movie-length BBC/PBS, on-screen texts, modern Doyle.
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S01E01 A Study in Pink
A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate - it is London in 2010, and Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time. A string of impossible suicides has Scotland Yard baffled - and only one man can help.
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S01E02 The Blind Banker
A mysterious cipher is being scrawled on the walls around London. The first person to see the cipher is dead within hours of reading it. Sherlock plunges into a world of codes and symbols, consulting with London's best graffiti artists. He soon learns that the city is in the grip a gang of international smugglers, a secret society called the Black Lotus.
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S01E03 The Great Game
A strange clue in an empty room, a blood-soaked car, a priceless Old Master, a deranged bomber. With the clock ticking, the curtain rises on a battle of wits between Sherlock, John and the shadowy stranger who seems to know all the answers...
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