The whole world knows Sherlock Holmes—now get to know the story behind the classic character, as well as the man who created him. Premiering tonight, December 8 at 8pm Eastern Time, Lucy Worsley’s Holmes vs. Doyle is a new three-part series on PBS that sees popular British historian and lifelong Sherlock Holmes fan Lucy Worsley seek to answer why author Arthur Conan Doyle came to despise the character that made him so rich and famous.
"Throughout the series, Worsley explores the parallel lives of Doyle and Holmes in the historical context of their times," reads the official show description, per PBS. "From the dying years of Victorian England, through the imperial crisis of the Boer war, the optimism of the early Edwardian years, to the trauma of the First World War, Arthur and Sherlock lived through them all."
