Sherlock (series)

Sherlock was a television series broadcast on BBC One created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, both of whom have historically been prominent writers on Doctor Who.

Crossover
The Sherlock versions of Holmes and Watson appear in Sprout Boy meets a Galaxy of Stars alongside the Twelfth Doctor.

Crew
As of 2023, every individual to have written for the television series Sherlock has also written something for Doctor Who or one of its spin-offs. These are Guy Adams, Joseph Lidster, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, and Steve Thompson.

Directors the series have in common are Rachel Talalay, Euros Lyn, Douglas Mackinnon, Toby Haynes, Colm McCarthy and Nick Hurran.

Sherlock's producer, Sue Vertue, also produced. Gatiss, Moffat and Vertue were all executive producers on the series, as was Beryl Vertue, Moffat's mother-in-law and Sue's mother, who had been the agent of Terry Nation.

David Arnold has worked as a composer for Big Finish Productions and on Sherlock.

Arwel Wyn Jones has worked as a production designer for Sherlock, Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

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References to Sherlock in the DWU
In, a poster for Sherlock is seen on the wall. In, the Twelfth Doctor mentions the series.

In the eleventh episode of The Fan Show,, pinned to a wall in a fictionalised version of Steven Moffat's study, a project on a wall can be seen that says "Wholock: The Musical". A fan-made Wholock: The Musical exists in real life.

References to the DWU in Sherlock
In the second episode of of Sherlock, , what appears to be the Doctor's TARDIS can be seen through some trees.

In the third episode of the second series, , the wifi password that is used in can be seen on Sherlock's phone.

In the first episode of the second series, , which is largely a homage to, some letters in the closing credits are hightlighted red. Rearranged, they spell out Weng-Chiang.

In the second episode of of Sherlock, , the Torchwood logo can be seen on a letter addressed to Sherlock Holmes.

Also in The Lying Detective, a journalist by the name of Harold Chorley is mentioned.

In a promotional image for the series, a book by Lavinia Smith can be seen.

Other connections
"Look I’m going to come clean on this: I would… Go speak to Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue, OK? They’re all in the way. I’m not the killjoy, it’s that lot. It’s probably not going to happen [...] You know in some ways, I think Mark [Gatiss] has got a point when he says that however good you imagine [the crossover], it would be almost better in your imagination than it would be if the two grand old egotists actually met. They’d just both go off in opposite corners and sulk that there was someone cleverer than them."
 * Other versions of Sherlock Holmes have appeared in the DWU multiple times, perhaps most notably in.
 * Fandom for Sherlock and Doctor Who was often interconnected with each other, frequently leading to fan content celebrating the shows together, often by crossing them over with each other (the term "SuperWhoLock" tended to be used with this mixed fandom activity, which included fans of the American dark fantasy drama Supernatural). A prominent example of this was the short film Wholock, depicting Sherlock meeting the Eleventh Doctor, made by Ben Pickles under his John Smith VFX YouTube channel, prior to him working on Doctor Who officially.
 * However, there has never been an official crossover between the series, with the closest being the minor licensed appearances of elements from Who.
 * According to the website Flickering Myth, when quizzed on whether he would like a crossover between Sherlock and Doctor Who, Steven Moffat said the following:

- Steven Moffat

"That’s a question that I get asked so often, and I can’t keep answering it. It’s all right for Doctor Who. That’s fine. But it would change Sherlock’s life, if he met the Doctor and knew that time travel was possible. He’d have to factor that into every crime he solved. And do we really think that Sherlock Holmes lived through a Dalek invasion? I don’t think he did. I think he’d have mentioned it by now. It’s not going to happen. That’s just the truth of it."
 * However, in an interview with, he said:

- Steven Moffat

"It may be possible to do a crossover for Comic Relief or as a sketch, but that’s it. We should be careful about not giving people everything they want. I don’t want to be a killjoy or Ebenezer Scrooge, but I don’t see why people are so obsessed with the idea. When I was a kid, I had no desire for TARDIS to appear alongside the Starship Enterprise. I liked them as they were. Having said that, I can say that if we did do it, it would disappoint people. Because the image they have in their heads will always be better."
 * Mark Gatiss, on the other hand, said:

- Mark Gatiss


 * Titan Comics have produced comics for both Doctor Who and for Sherlock.