The Trailer for Sherlock's Victorian Special Will Delight You Beyond Belief

Sherlock Holmes has his deerstalker hat and everything feels right

By Chris Harnick Oct 07, 2015 8:29 PMTags
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Our long international nightmare will be over soon: new Sherlock is on the way and there's a trailer to prove it. The special episode of the Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman series takes place in Victorian England—you know, back when the original Sherlock Holmes stories took place—because why not.

"The stage is set. The curtain rises. We are ready to begin," Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes says in the trailer below.

"AHHHHHHHHHH," you say.

The trailer has everything: cool facial hair, Deerstalker caps, capes, horse-drawn carriages, dead bodies, pipes, eerie smoke-filled alleys and so much good stuff.

"The name is Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B Baker Street," Cumberbatch says in character. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

"You're Sherlock Holmes, wear the damn hat," Freeman's Watson says for fans across the world.

BBC and Masterpiece previously released a clip at Comic-Con, but this new trailer is sure to get you even more jazzed about the special.

"It's like we checked the books and discovered we'd set it in the wrong time period by mistake and it's like we're correcting it for 90 minutes," Steven Moffat, executive producer and co-creator, previously told BBC News. "We're really proud of it, we think it's a real cracker. But that'll be it until series four."

No premiere date was given, but expect this for Christmas.

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