Theory:Timeline - Sherlock Holmes & John Watson

This page lists the appearances of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson in the order in which they experienced them. This timeline is based upon observations of the Doctor Who universe and the events that occur during each of these stories.

The only Sherlock and Watson pairing to have appeared in Doctor Who fiction are Big Finish's cast of Nicholas Briggs (Sherlock) and Richard Earl (Watson) who appeared in All-Consuming Fire and The Worlds of Big Finish. As such, this page consists of a secondary timeline which also covers this pairing in their non-DWU stories, mainly as a part of Big Finish's Sherlock Holmes series.

Timeline

 * 1882-1883 - PROSE: Erasing Sherlock


 * 1887 - PROSE: All-Consuming Fire / AUDIO: All-Consuming Fire


 * PROSE: Prelude All-Consuming Fire
 * Watson tells Arthur Conan Doyle of the events of All-Consuming Fire. Holmes does not appear.


 * 1887 - PROSE: Happy Endings
 * Holmes and Watson attend Bernice Summerfield's wedding in 2010


 * 1888 - PROSE: The Shape of Things
 * Holmes and Watson meet Iris Wildthyme.


 * 1896 - PROSE: The Vanishing Man


 * 1911 - AUDIO: The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber
 * Watson does not appear.


 * 1914 - PROSE: A Gallery of Pigeons
 * Holmes does not appear.


 * 1916 - PROSE: The Found World
 * Holmes does not appear.


 * 1927 - AUDIO: The Feast of Magog
 * Watson does not appear.


 * PROSE: The Book of the Enemy
 * Sherlock reads The Book of the Enemy and his entire life is turned into fiction.


 * PROSE: Sussex
 * The fictional Sherlock dies of old age.

Unplaced

 * PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...
 * PROSE: Prologue to Erasing Sherlock

Big Finish timeline

 * July 1880 - NOTVALID: The Guttering Candle
 * Watson serves in Afghanistan while Sherlock and Lestrade meet for the first time.


 * 1881 - NOTVALID: The Guttering Candle (epilogue)
 * Set shortly after Watson's arrival back in England.


 * April 1883 - NOTVALID: The Speckled Band


 * 1887 - AUDIO: All-Consuming Fire


 * 1888 - NOTVALID: Holmes and the Ripper
 * Holmes uncovers the mystery of Jack the Ripper.


 * October 1888 - NOTVALID: The Hound of the Baskervilles
 * Set in October.


 * November 1888 - NOTVALID: The Tangled Skein
 * Set in November 1888. Watson notes that Holmes has solved three cases this Autumn, including the Baskerville affair.


 * April - May 1891 - NOTVALID: The Final Problem
 * Set from April to May 1891. Holmes and James Moriarty are apparently killed at Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.


 * August 1892 - NOTVALID: Poppyland
 * Set in August 1892. Holmes has spent over a year crossing wits with Colonel Sebastian Moran, one of Moriarty's employees. Meanwhile in London, John is given a mysterious letter.


 * September 1892 - NOTVALID: At the Gates of Shambhala
 * Set in September, and only days after Poppyland, Holmes travels to Tibet.


 * September 1892 - NOTVALID: The Man in the Moonlight
 * Follows on directly from ''At the Gates of Shambhala.


 * 1892 - NOTVALID: The Tragedy of Pargetter Square
 * Not long after The Man in the Moonlight, Holmes returns to London to reveal the Society's hoax to the public. Colonel Moran and Helenna Eidelmann, members of the Society, escape England and are pursued by Holmes. Three months later, Mary Watson is murdered in front of John at Pargetter Square.


 * February 1894 - NOTVALID: The Tragedy of Pargetter Square (epilogue)
 * In February 1894, Holmes tracks down Mary's killer and forces him to start a new life in Tibet.


 * April 1894 - NOTVALID: The Empty House


 * 1895 - NOTVALID: The Adventure of the Gamekeeper's Folly
 * Watson is living at Baker Street again and is unmarried.


 * NOTVALID: The Reification of Hans Gerber
 * Watson is married and mentions his mother-in-law. In the original canon (The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier) Mary's mother died when she was young so this must be his second marriage.


 * 1900 - NOTVALID: The Seamstress of Peckham Rye


 * 1901 - NOTVALID: The Fiends of New York City


 * October 1903 NOTVALID: The Adventure of the Bermondsey Cutthroats
 * Married to his second wife and living away from Baker Street, Watson last saw Sherlock a few weeks ago during the case of The Creeping Man. Following the events of this story, Sherlock retires to become a beekeeper in Sussex.


 * 1911 - AUDIO: The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber


 * 1912 - NOTVALID: The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner


 * 1912 - NOTVALID: Ghosts of Christmas Past
 * Sherlock meets Dorian Gray.


 * NOTVALID: The Sowers of Despair


 * October 1921 - The Judgement of Sherlock Holmes (frame)
 * Holmes and Watson tell each other of the events that occurred during Sherlock's apparent death. The Society begins to act again.


 * 1921 - NOTVALID: The Prophet in the Rain


 * 1921 - NOTVALID: The Body in the Garret


 * 1921 - NOTVALID: The Beast in the Darkness


 * 1921 - NOTVALID: The Shadow in the Water


 * 1927 - AUDIO: The Feast of Magog

Unplaced

 * NOTVALID: The Master of Blackstone Grange
 * NOTVALID: The Adventure of the Fleet Street Transparency