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The Doctor and Bill have saved the day again and something’s knocking in the vault - but it’s only knocking three times, so it doesn’t constitute a reference. Instead, here’s our weekly list of references, callbacks, tenuous spots and generally interesting waffle from this week’s episode. You’ll have to forgive me if I’ve missed anything - I’m at my sister’s wedding as this episode goes out, and they’ve refused to turn the music off for an hour so we can watch it.

Turning to be a truly Indian global studio, Vistaar Entertainment helmed by Sheetal Talwar, following backing films such as 'The Eichmann Show' starring Martin Freeman, 'The Joneses' starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny, will produce 'Romans' starring award winning actor Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Hobbit) alongside a stellar cast including; Anne Reid (Coronation Street, Hot Fuzz, The Mother); Alex Ferns (EastEnders, Legend) and Rory Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises, Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars). Directed by The Shamassian Brothers (The Pyramid Texts) with screenplay by BAFTA award winning writer Geoff Thompson, Romans is being produced by Sheetal Vinod Talwar's Vistaar along with James Harris and Mark Lane of The Tea Shop & Film Company and Jasper Graham of Dreamscape Films. Set in present day London, Romans is based on true life events and follows the...

Feature Alex Westthorp 19 Feb 2014 - 07:00

Nostalgia ahoy! With Sherlock Holmes more popular than ever, Alex looks back at eighties children's drama, The Baker Street Boys...

The BBC's contemporary take on Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories has made Sherlock the most popular television drama series in many years. Benedict Cumberbatch has made Sherlock his own, his approach to the role as radical for the current era as the late, great Jeremy Brett's was a generation ago. Martin Freeman has banished our memories of his role as Tim Canterbury in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's The Office, with his wonderful re-assessment of Dr John Watson. The corporation is making the most of the Conan Doyle franchise. After from two rather lacklustre yuletide cases, firstly with Richard Roxburgh in 2002 then Rupert Everett in 2004; they finally have a hit on their hands. The benchmark hitherto has always been Granada Television...

Sherlock Holmes is just the most visible figure in a sleuthing tradition that stretches from Edgar Allan Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin to Dr. Gregory House, but more than any other professional epiphanizer, Holmes has taken on a life separate from his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In addition to occasionally being transplanted from his native 19th-century London and starring in numerous comic-book and film adaptations—including 1929’s The Return Of Sherlock Holmes, which introduced the world to “Elementary, my dear Watson”—the great detective has also spawned organizations like The Baker Street Irregulars, the group of feverishly fanboyish ...

Tony Lee, writer of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies graphic novel adaptation and the Markosia graphic novel Harker – a sequel to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is hitting the literary trail again. Lee has teamed up with artist Dan Boultwood on a brand new Sherlock Holmes related series titled The Baker Street Irregulars.

Based on the characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the series is set:

…in the wake of Sherlock Holmes supposed waterfall death, the young cohorts rise up and take over his role on the streets of London as a crime wave hits, alongside Inspector Lestrade, Doctor Watson and Irene Alder against someone who may well be Professor Moriarty, the man who killed Holmes.

Lee and Boultwood are working with Holmes expert Leslie S. Klinger to make this as true to Sherlock Holmes canon as can be, so much so that publishers Franklin Watts Books, an imprint of Hachette,...

Hachette imprint Franklin Watts Books has emerged as the publisher for Tony Lee's Sherlock Holmes graphic novel project. Written by Lee and illustrated by Dan Boultwood, Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars is a four-book series based on the peripheral characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's work. Set between the classic stories The Adventure Of The Final Problem and The (more)...