Tommy Westphall Universe
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Tommy Westphall Universe

Sherlock is a British crime drama created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss for the BBC and based on the stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It began running on 25 July 2010 and is on its fourth season.

Series summary[]

Traumatised after his experiences in the 2001 Afghanistan War, army surgeon Doctor John Watson returns to London and finds himself cohabiting with Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), a brilliant but arrogant and aloof private detective. The pair soon find themselves untangling bizarre and improbable crimes involving serial killers, monstrous dogs, sinister assassins and a mysterious mastermind named Moriarty...

Westphall connections in Sherlock[]

  • The TARDIS from Doctor Who can be seen on the top of the hollow as Henry runs away in "The Hounds of Baskerville". In Sherlock “The Blind Banker” a book titled ‘Teleological Response of the Virus’ written by Lavinia Smith appears on the bookshelf of 221B Bakers Street. Lavinia was a recurring character from Doctor Who, and the aunt of his companion Sarah Jane Smith. Sherlock is produced and written by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, who also worked on the Doctor Who revival series, with Moffat being the former producer and showrunner for both programs. Lavinia was also referenced in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures as the person Sarah Jane inherited her house on Bannerman Road from.
  • A letter from the Torchwood Institute from Torchwood can be seen on Sherlock's Mantelpiece in "The Lying Detective".
  • On Star Trek, Captain Spock once stated, "An ancestor of mine maintained that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains – however improbable – must be the truth." This is, in fact, a famous quote of Holmes'.
  • The fictional locale of Baskerville from the episode The Hounds of Baskerville, was presumably the hometown of William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose.

Westphall connections to Sherlock[]

  • The Diogenes Club, a fictional club where Mycroft Holmes is a member that is seen in the episodes "The Reichenbach Fall" and "The Abominable Bride" is also mentioned in the My Family episode "Sitting Targets" and the Forever episode "Hitler on the Half Shell".
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