The BEST episodes of Sherlock
Every episode of Sherlock ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Sherlock!
Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. John Watson solve crimes in 21st century London.
#1 - The Reichenbach Fall
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2012
Moriarty is back, with the most audacious crime of the century. But is Sherlock Holmes all he claims to be?
#2 - His Last Vow
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/2014
Sherlock Holmes encounters Charles Augustus Magnussen, the one man he truly hates, through a case of stolen letters. How will he tackle an enemy who specialises in blackmail and knows the personal weakness of every eminent person in the western world?
#3 - The Lying Detective
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2017
Sherlock faces perhaps the most chilling enemy of his long career: the powerful and seemingly unassailable Culverton Smith - a man with a very dark secret indeed.
#4 - A Scandal in Belgravia
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2012
Compromising photographs threaten the monarchy, but for Sherlock and John the game is on in more ways than one.
#5 - A Study in Pink
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/25/2010
A war hero, invalided home from Afghanistan, meets a strange but charismatic genius who is looking for a flatmate - it is London in 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.
#6 - The Empty Hearse
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2014
Two years after his apparent death and with London under a terrorist threat, Sherlock Holmes walks back into Dr John Watson's life.
#7 - The Great Game
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/8/2010
A strange clue in an empty room, a blood-soaked car, a priceless Old Master, a deranged bomber. With the clock ticking, the curtain rises on a battle of wits between Sherlock, John and the shadowy stranger who seems to know all the answers...
#8 - The Sign of Three
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/5/2014
Sherlock faces his biggest challenge of all - delivering a best man's speech on John's wedding day.
#9 - The Final Problem
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2017
Someone has been playing a very long game indeed and, alone and defenceless, Sherlock and Dr Watson face their greatest ever challenge.
#10 - The Hounds of Baskerville
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2012
Sherlock and John investigate the truth about the monstrous creature which apparently killed their client's father.
#11 - The Blind Banker
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/1/2010
A mysterious cipher is being scrawled on walls around London, and the first person to see it dies within hours of reading it. Can Sherlock and John solve the case?
#12 - The Six Thatchers
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2017
Why is someone destroying images of Margaret Thatcher? Is there a madman on the loose? Or is there a much darker purpose at work?