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Why did Arthur Conan Doyle hate his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes?
Sherlock Holmes is the most well-known detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.
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Sherlock Holmes is the most well-known detective in the world. He made his author, Arthur Conan Doyle, rich and famous. But the writer came to hate his fictional character. Through the changing world of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Lucy Worsley explores why.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipLucy Worsley: Sherlock Holmes is the world's most famous detective... Worsley: Oh, and here's an address with a powerful spell to it--Baker Street.
Worsley, voice-over: admired for his intellect.
Woman: You had an almost infallible detective, who offered certainty, answers.
Worsley: Adored for his skills of deduction.
Woman two: It's a little bit of a precursor to what we call forensic science.
Worsley: He originally appears in 4 novels and 56 stories, and he pretty much always solves the mystery at the heart of each one of them, but there's one huge mystery that still remains.
Why didn't Sherlock Holmes' creator Arthur Conan Doyle love him as much as the rest of us do?
Man: You can see the dilemma that he's in because he doesn't want to be stereotyped only as the writer of Sherlock Holmes.
"I think of slaying Holmes.
He takes my mind from better things."
Worsley: In this series, I'm tracking down clues and evaluating the evidence... Where is it?
Where is it?
Worsley, voice-over: to discover where creator and creation diverged.
Woman: He escaped from Conan Doyle very early.
Escaped!
Man: It just sort of blew up with Houdini just eventually saying, "I just think this guy is senile.
He's sort of bamboozled easily."
Worsley: I read my first Sherlock Holmes story when I was about 9, and what I loved about him was his compelling weirdness and the strange cases he took on, but I've come to think that the most curious case of all of them is this love-hate relationship that existed between the great detective and the man who invented him.
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Preview: S1 | 2m 4s | Why did Arthur Conan Doyle hate his fictional character, Sherlock Holmes? (2m 4s)
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Clip: Ep3 | 3m 27s | Sherlock Holmes is back from the dead! How did the fictional sleuth survive the Reichenbach Fall? (3m 27s)
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Clip: Ep3 | 3m 34s | Arthur turns his attention to devising a new Holmes story set just before the war: "His Last Bow." (3m 34s)
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Clip: Ep3 | 3m 35s | Lucy Worsley and Professor Janice Allan discuss the shift in Arthur's writing. (3m 35s)
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Clip: Ep3 | 3m 12s | Does Arthur’s science stand up to scrutiny when trialed and tested? (3m 12s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 7s | Arthur applies to fight in the Boer War, hoping to finally become the hero of his own story. (3m 7s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m 55s | A phantom hound, the spooky setting of Dartmoor – it is of course Hound of the Baskervilles! (2m 55s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m | Could Arthur turn detective himself and solve a real life miscarriage of justice? (2m)
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 13s | Arthur became the judge of Britain’s very first body building competition at the Albert Hall. (3m 13s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 2m 50s | Lucy Worsley and Professor Sue Black discuss how some aspects of Sherlock's tactics get used today. (2m 50s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 2m 47s | Lucy talks with Arthur's step great-grandson about the author's love-hate relationship with Holmes. (2m 47s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 2m 47s | Lucy Worsley visits the Reichenbach Falls, the site of fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes' death. (2m 47s)
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