We might not yet know when it’ll actually show up on TV (come on Beeb, we can only show so much patience!), but we do at least now get to take a proper, extended gander at the new special Sherlock episode, which spins the clock back in time for a Conan Doyle-appropriate Victorian setting. Grab your moustache wax and your deerstalker and peer below.
Set apart from the continuity of the main show, the episode will be a stand-alone story with our heroes (played as usual by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman) investigating a seemingly impossible case. Well, impossible for other people. The likes of Rupert Graves, Louise Brealey, Jonathan Aris, Amanda Abbington and Una Stubbs will all be around, but given Victorian twists.
“The special is its own thing,” Moffat told EW back in March. “We wouldn’t have done the story we’re doing, and the way we’re doing it, if we didn’t have this special. It’s not part of the run of three episodes. So we had this to do it – as we could hardly conceal – it’s Victorian. Mark Gatiss and me, we wanted to do this, but it had to be a special, it had to be separate entity on its own. It’s kind of in its own little bubble."
So, then… “Coming soon.” Not soon enough.