7.6/1026,477 votesLoading...#1 - 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?
Director: Rachel Talalay
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.7/10177 votesLoading...#2 - The Hounds of Baskerville
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2012
A hound from hell. Sherlock's most famous case. But is a monster really stalking Dartmoor?
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Mark Gatiss
7.9/1029,816 votesLoading...#3 - The Blind Banker
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/1/2010
A mysterious cipher is being scrawled on the walls around London. The first person to see the cipher is dead within hours of reading it. Sherlock plunges into a world of codes and symbols, consulting with London's best graffiti artists. He soon learns that the city is in the grip a gang of international smugglers, a secret society called the Black Lotus.
Director: Euros Lyn
Writer: Stephen Thompson
8.2/1029,854 votesLoading...#4 - The Final Problem
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2017
Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Moriarty's vengeance.
Director: Benjamin Caron
Writer: Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss
8.4/10208 votesLoading...#5 - A Scandal in Belgravia
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2012
Blackmail threatens the monarchy and Sherlock is about to meet the woman who beats him.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.7/10185 votesLoading...#6 - The Reichenbach Fall
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2012
The return of Moriarty. The crime of the century. Can Sherlock possibly survive?
Director: Toby Haynes
Writer: Stephen Thompson
8.8/1032,539 votesLoading...#7 - The Empty Hearse
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2014
Two years on from reports of his Reichenbach Fall demise, Sherlock resurfaces as London comes under threat of a huge terrorist attack. John, though, has mixed feelings – he's delighted by the return of his best friend, but harbours worries that the consulting detective's reappearance will have an adverse affect on his settled domestic life, in particular his romance with Mary Morstan.
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Writer: Mark Gatiss
8.9/1034,507 votesLoading...#8 - 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, 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.
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.9/1029,575 votesLoading...#9 - 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! But all isn’t quite as it seems. Mortal danger stalks the reception – and someone might not make it to the happy couple’s first dance. Sherlock must thank the bridesmaids, solve the case and stop a killer.
Director: Colm McCarthy
Writer: Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Stephen Thompson
9.0/1030,388 votesLoading...#10 - 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...
Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer: Mark Gatiss
9.1/1029,540 votesLoading...#11 - 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.
Director: Nick Hurran
Writer: Steven Moffat
9.2/1032,676 votesLoading...#12 - His Last Vow
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/2014
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. But how do you tackle a foe who knows the personal weakness of every person of importance in the Western world?
Director: Nick Hurran
Writer: Steven Moffat
The Worst Episodes of Sherlock
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Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:BBC One
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Six Thatchers" is the worst rated episode of "Sherlock". It scored 7.6/10 based on 26477 votes. Directed by Rachel Talalay and written by Mark Gatiss, it aired on 1/1/2017. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Hounds of Baskerville".