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Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.

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Timeshift: Series 13: Episode 7: How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

How to be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

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Episode 7: How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

Series 13

How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective

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The evolution of Sherlock Holmes on screen, from silent movies to new television versions.

Film charting the evolution of Sherlock Holmes on screen, from silent movies to the latest film and television versions. Featuring contributions from Sherlocks past and present.

For over 100 years, more than 80 actors have put a varying face to the world's greatest consulting detective - Sherlock Holmes. And many of them incorporated details - such as the curved pipe and the immortal line 'Elementary, my dear Watson' - that never featured in Conan Doyle's original stories. In charting the evolution of Sherlock on screen, from early silent movies to the latest film and television versions, Timeshift shows how our notion of Holmes today is as much a creation of these various screen portrayals as of the stories themselves.

With contributions from Sherlocks past and present, including Benedict Cumberbatch, Christopher Lee, Tim Pigott-Smith and Mark Gatiss. Narrated by Peter Wyngarde.

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