Sherlock Season 3 Episode 3 138 votes, average 8.2 out of 10 A case of stolen letters leads Sherlock Holmes into a long conflict with Charles Augustus Magnussen, the Napoleon of blackmail, and the one man he truly hates. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the men behind Doctor Who and The League Of Gentlemen, Sherlock plays with expectations and gives them a delightfully knowing modern spin. Anyone expecting a smoking pipe and a deerstalker will be left wanting. Until the special episode “The Abominable Bride” that is. Sherlock Season 1 Episode 1. A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate; it is London, 2010, and Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes are meeting for the first time. A string of impossible suicides has Scotland Yard baffled – and only one man can help. lfUp.