{"id":970550,"date":"2025-02-12T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?p=970550"},"modified":"2025-02-12T08:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:48:18","slug":"watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-spoiler-alert\"><svg class=\"icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 32 23\"><path d=\"M15.713 6.511c-2.41 0-4.376 2.057-4.376 4.591 0 2.527 1.96 4.591 4.376 4.591 2.41 0 4.375-2.057 4.375-4.591 0-2.527-1.966-4.591-4.375-4.591z\"\/><path d=\"M15.713 18.358c-3.88 0-7.04-3.253-7.04-7.256s3.16-7.255 7.04-7.255c3.879 0 7.04 3.252 7.04 7.255s-3.161 7.256-7.04 7.256zm16.085-7.961C27.63 3.709 22.015.027 16 .027 9.985.026 4.369 3.708.202 10.396c-.267.43-.267.98 0 1.41C4.37 18.495 9.985 22.178 16 22.178c6.015 0 11.624-3.683 15.798-10.37.267-.432.267-.98 0-1.411z\"\/><\/svg><em>This Watson article contains spoilers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019ve heard anything at all about the new CBS medical-mystery series <em>Watson<\/em>, it&#8217;s probably that it\u2019s similar to another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/sherlock-holmes\/\">Sherlock Holmes<\/a>-inspired medical series, <em>House<\/em>. But comparing <em>Watson<\/em> to <em>House<\/em> is superficial at best because turning a Sherlock Holmes premise into a medical drama starring a quirky doctor isn&#8217;t original to that famous show, either. That concept actually goes all the way back to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. What makes <em>Watson<\/em> such an interesting take on these characters is that it fuses the fiction of the Holmes stories with Doyle\u2019s real biography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created by Craig Sweeney, who also wrote many episodes of <em>Elementary<\/em> (as well as the recent <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/star-trek\/\">Star Trek<\/a><\/em> misfire <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/star-trek-section-31-review\/\">Section 31<\/a><\/em>), <em>Watson<\/em> initially seems like a departure from the canon as established by Doyle. Here, Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) witnesses Holmes apparently die at the Reichenbach Falls, promptly inherits a fortune from Holmes\u2019 will, and then sets up a super clinic in Pittsburgh staffed by various medical geniuses. The stated purpose of this clinic is fuzzy, but there\u2019s certainly a <em>Star Trek<\/em>-ish feel to the gang: brilliant twin brothers Stephens Croft and Adam Croft (Peter Mark Kendall), eccentric neurologist Ingrid Derian (Eve Harlow), and Sasha Lubbock (Inga Schlingmann), an immunologist with a touch of Southern charm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the gang is Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster), a former thug who eventually found himself in the employ of Sherlock Holmes. The name \u201cShinwell Johnson\u201d comes from a vaguely similar character from the original Doyle short story \u201cThe Adventure of the Illustrious Client,\u201d and the show\u2019s nods to the larger Holmes canon don\u2019t end there. Watson quotes the famous Holmes maxim in the pilot episode, \u201cWhen you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,\u201d and, by the end of the same episode, a new version of Moriarty is revealed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\r\n\n\t\t<div class=\"ad-dog__cnx-container\"><script id=\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\">\n\t\t\tcnx.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tcnx({\n\t\t\t\t\tplayerId: \"106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530\",\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t}).render(\"0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796\");\n\t\t\t});\n\t\t<\/script><\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<p>For those who loved <em>Sherlock<\/em> or <em>Elementary<\/em>, all these elements will seem vaguely familiar, a contemporary Holmes world, but now with references to the 2020s rather than the 2010s. Of course, the biggest difference here is that <em>Watson<\/em> is a Sherlock Holmes show without Sherlock. But  this wrinkle doesn&#8217;t make <em>Watson<\/em> unfaithful to the spirit of Conan Doyle&#8212;instead, it take the entire Holmes phenomenon back to its real-life roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before he became an author, Arthur Conan Doyle was a medical student. Somewhat famously, one of his teachers was an eccentric guy by the name of Dr. Joseph Bell, \u201cJoe\u201d to his friends. According <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=32125191642&amp;dest=usa&amp;ref_=ps_ggl_18382194370&amp;cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade0to10-_-product_id=COM9781632860392USED-_-keyword=&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAh6y9BhBREiwApBLHCySEilPyKSFtVYNkQpsWKjy7hyWqojgBXkrnWu0OBjMV4KwYmMmEQhoC1TQQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to historical accounts,<\/a> Bell physically looked nothing like his fictional cipher, Sherlock Holmes, but his powers of deduction&#8212;noticing certain types of mud on people\u2019s shoes&#8212;inspired Doyle in a myriad of ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, when he became a practicing doctor himself, Doyle spent his free time writing. Eventually, this led to the publication of <em>A Study in Scarlet<\/em> in 1887. The birth of Holmes and Watson in that book saw Doyle essentially split his persona into two: both Holmes and Watson represented aspects of the writer but also a kind of hyper-fictionalized version of his own biography. Holmes, as a stand-in for Bell, was Doyle\u2019s inner teacher, the part of him that retained Bell\u2019s teachings and applied them not just to medicine but to crime fiction. Meanwhile, Watson was a slightly more heroic version of Doyle the doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not the first person to make this observation about how Doyle split sides of himself to create Holmes and Watson, nor is this practice altogether uncommon with great writers who created iconic duos. Nichelle Nichols pointed out in her 1995 memoir <em>Beyond Uhura<\/em> that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/star-trek\/\">Star Trek<\/a><\/em> creator Gene Roddenberry put facets of himself into both Kirk and Spock, which, she noted, were then reconstituted into one character: Jean-Luc Picard. While that famous starship captain is just one artistic descendent of Sherlock Holmes, consolidating too much intellectual power in one hero can make for too perfect (read: dull) of a protagonist in the wrong hands. Doyle wisely gave Holmes his Watson, and it&#8217;s why the TV series <em>Watson<\/em> gives the good doctor his team of super-physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, structurally, this makes the TV series appear more conventional\u2014perhaps even trying to compete with the <em>CSI<\/em>s of the world\u2014but the power of the Holmes canon is that it&#8217;s not just about one guy showing off. It\u2019s about a partnership between two minds: Holmes the genius detective and Watson the <em>writer<\/em> who makes the impossible real. When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/star-wars-skeleton-crew-jude-law-jod-na-nawood-interview\/\"><em>Den of Geek<\/em> spoke to Jude Law<\/a> about <em>Skeleton Crew<\/em> last year, year, we got a second to chat some Doyle. That former Watson reminded us that the power of the Holmes stories rests with that character: \u201cIt\u2019s a detail people forget,\u201d Law said. \u201cThat the stories are being told by <em>him<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The series <em>Watson<\/em> may not be perfect. But it does understand this detail. The story of Sherlock Holmes has always been the story of Dr. Watson, too. Whether or not he\u2019s a reliable narrator is part of the game. And with this series, the game may seem different, but it\u2019s still very much afoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Watson airs on CBS and streams on Paramount+.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Watson article contains spoilers. If you\u2019ve heard anything at all about the new CBS medical-mystery series Watson, it&#8217;s probably that it\u2019s similar to another Sherlock Holmes-inspired medical series, House. But comparing Watson to House is superficial at best because turning a Sherlock Holmes premise into a medical drama starring a quirky doctor isn&#8217;t original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":970588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"dog_exclude_from_homepage":false,"dog_do_not_display_featured_image":false,"dog_external_link":"","dog_product_price":0,"dog_product_button_label":"Buy Now","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[792,770],"article_type":[776],"topic":[2101,3316],"sponsored":[],"feeds":[],"coauthors":[144],"class_list":{"0":"post-970550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-tv","9":"article_type-features","10":"topic-sherlock-holmes","11":"topic-streaming","12":"entry"},"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think | Den of Geek<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The new CBS series may not seem faithful to the original Conan Doyle stories, but it is faithful to the man himself.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The new CBS series may not seem faithful to the original Conan Doyle stories, but it is faithful to the man himself.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Den of Geek\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-02-12T14:01:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"3000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1688\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ryan Britt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ryan Britt\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/\",\"name\":\"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think | Den of Geek\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-12T14:01:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6db5a857e7598ac5bb96986f6b78315d\"},\"description\":\"The new CBS series may not seem faithful to the original Conan Doyle stories, but it is faithful to the man himself.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688\",\"width\":3000,\"height\":1688,\"caption\":\"Morris Chestnut in Watson\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/\",\"name\":\"Den of Geek\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6db5a857e7598ac5bb96986f6b78315d\",\"name\":\"Ryan Britt\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/0b7a09beb66e385534899f014bc30185\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ryan-Britt-headshot-2022-.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/781678dbb509d00ca5be49bf44b378110335690bd40873caa6b7a70fdded5761?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ryan Britt\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/johnsaavedra\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think | Den of Geek","description":"The new CBS series may not seem faithful to the original Conan Doyle stories, but it is faithful to the man himself.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think","og_description":"The new CBS series may not seem faithful to the original Conan Doyle stories, but it is faithful to the man himself.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/","og_site_name":"Den of Geek","article_published_time":"2025-02-12T14:01:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":3000,"height":1688,"url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ryan Britt","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ryan Britt","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/","url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/","name":"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think | Den of Geek","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688","datePublished":"2025-02-12T14:01:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6db5a857e7598ac5bb96986f6b78315d"},"description":"The new CBS series may not seem faithful to the original Conan Doyle stories, but it is faithful to the man himself.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688","width":3000,"height":1688,"caption":"Morris Chestnut in Watson"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/","name":"Den of Geek","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#\/schema\/person\/6db5a857e7598ac5bb96986f6b78315d","name":"Ryan Britt","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/0b7a09beb66e385534899f014bc30185","url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Ryan-Britt-headshot-2022-.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/781678dbb509d00ca5be49bf44b378110335690bd40873caa6b7a70fdded5761?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ryan Britt"},"url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/johnsaavedra\/"}]}},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think","url":"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?resize=150%2C150","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688"},"articleSection":"Books","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Britt"}],"creator":["Ryan Britt"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Den of Geek","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2025-02-12T14:01:00Z","datePublished":"2025-02-12T14:01:00Z","dateModified":"2025-02-12T14:01:00Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Watson Is More Faithful to Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle Than You Think\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.denofgeek.com\\\/tv\\\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.denofgeek.com\\\/tv\\\/watson-sherlock-holmes-origin-arthur-conan-doyle\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.denofgeek.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/watson.jpg?resize=150%2C150\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.denofgeek.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688\"},\"articleSection\":\"Books\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Ryan Britt\"}],\"creator\":[\"Ryan Britt\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Den of Geek\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2025-02-12T14:01:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-02-12T14:01:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-12T14:01:00Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/denofgeek.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/watson.jpg?fit=3000%2C1688","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":926713,"url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/new-watson-show-solve-sherlock-holmes-canon-mystery\/","url_meta":{"origin":970550,"position":0},"title":"New Watson Show Can Finally Solve a Sherlock Holmes Canon Mystery","author":"John Saavedra","date":"January 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"After Sherlock and Elementary do we really need another contemporary take on the world of Sherlock Holmes? For fans of everything 221B Baker Street, the answer is always yes. More than any other set of fictional characters, the world of Holmes has proven time and again to be nearly limitless\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","block_context":{"text":"TV","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Sherlock Holmes","src":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=2306%2C1304&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=2306%2C1304&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=2306%2C1304&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=2306%2C1304&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=2306%2C1304&resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=2306%2C1304&resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":201443,"url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/the_top_10_portrayals_of_sherlock_holmes-html\/","url_meta":{"origin":970550,"position":1},"title":"The top 10 portrayals of Sherlock Holmes","author":"jbindeck2015","date":"January 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"It was 125 years ago that a young Scottish physician called Arthur Conan Doyle wrote some stories about a master detective, mainly to amuse himself between appointments at his surgery. His creation, Sherlock Holmes, loosely based on his mentor, forensic surgeon Joseph Bell, first appeared in the 1887 Beeton\u2019s Christmas\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","block_context":{"text":"TV","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":796862,"url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/enola-holmes-2-post-credits-scene-fixes-canon\/","url_meta":{"origin":970550,"position":2},"title":"Enola Holmes 2 Post-Credits Scene Fixes Canon from the Books","author":"David Crow","date":"November 4, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This article contains Enola Holmes 2 spoilers. In both the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Enola Holmes novels by Nancy Springer, Sherlock Holmes has a best friend. And, in most adaptations of Sherlock Holmes\u2014whether it's Lucy Lui, Martin Freeman, or Jude Law\u2014Dr. Watson is usually close\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Henry Cavill and Mille Bobby Brown in Enola Holmes 2","src":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Henry-Cavill-and-Mille-Bobby-Brown-in-Enola-Holmes-2.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Henry-Cavill-and-Mille-Bobby-Brown-in-Enola-Holmes-2.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Henry-Cavill-and-Mille-Bobby-Brown-in-Enola-Holmes-2.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Henry-Cavill-and-Mille-Bobby-Brown-in-Enola-Holmes-2.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Henry-Cavill-and-Mille-Bobby-Brown-in-Enola-Holmes-2.jpeg?fit=1280%2C720&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":618125,"url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/enola-holmes-the-best-sherlock-holmes-easter-eggs\/","url_meta":{"origin":970550,"position":3},"title":"Enola Holmes: The Best Sherlock Holmes Easter Eggs","author":"Louisa Mellor","date":"September 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Warning: contains Enola Holmes spoilersThe subgenre of Sherlock Holmes pastiches in which Sherlock himself is not the focus is slightly larger than you might think. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (yes, that Kareem) has written two novels and a comic book series about Sherlock\u2019s brother Mycroft, while Carole Nelson Douglas wrote eight novels\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Movies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Movies","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"ENOLA HOLMES (L to R) HENRY CAVILL as SHERLOCK HOLMES, MILLIE BOBBY BROWN as ENOLA HOLMES, SAM CLAFLIN as MYCROFT HOLMES.","src":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/enola-holmes-millie-bobby-brown-henry-cavill-sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=1800%2C1199&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/enola-holmes-millie-bobby-brown-henry-cavill-sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=1800%2C1199&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/enola-holmes-millie-bobby-brown-henry-cavill-sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=1800%2C1199&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/enola-holmes-millie-bobby-brown-henry-cavill-sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=1800%2C1199&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/enola-holmes-millie-bobby-brown-henry-cavill-sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=1800%2C1199&resize=1050%2C600 3x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/enola-holmes-millie-bobby-brown-henry-cavill-sherlock-holmes.jpg?fit=1800%2C1199&resize=1400%2C800 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":666691,"url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/did-the-irregulars-need-its-sherlock-holmes-and-watson-connection\/","url_meta":{"origin":970550,"position":4},"title":"Did The Irregulars Need its Sherlock Holmes and Watson Connection?","author":"Louisa Mellor","date":"March 30, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Warning: contains some plot details for The Irregulars There are Sherlock Holmes purists in this world, but I\u2019m not among them. You want to put Sherlock Holmes on a spaceship, or make him a quarterback, or a hedgehog, or a woman? Go for your life. Make him Elton John for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Irregulars Sherlock Holmes","src":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Irregulars-Sherlock-Holmes.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Irregulars-Sherlock-Holmes.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Irregulars-Sherlock-Holmes.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Irregulars-Sherlock-Holmes.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/The-Irregulars-Sherlock-Holmes.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":181437,"url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/books\/sherlock-holmes-celebrating-rathbone-bruces-top-5-films\/","url_meta":{"origin":970550,"position":5},"title":"Sherlock Holmes: celebrating Rathbone &#038; Bruce&#8217;s top 5 films","author":"jbindeck2015","date":"March 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Sherlock Holmes has been around for a long time. He made his first literary appearance in 1887 and his first leading role in a cinematic medium took place in 1900 in Mutoscope, a coin-in-the-slot viewing device. Over 70 actors have played him, and every one of them has put their\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970550"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970637,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970550\/revisions\/970637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970550"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=970550"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=970550"},{"taxonomy":"sponsored","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsored?post=970550"},{"taxonomy":"feeds","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/feeds?post=970550"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=970550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}