The Best Episodes Written By Stephen Thompson

#1 - Episode 4

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2016

News of Johnny's true identity spreads throughout the town, leaving him isolated.

Director: Robert McKillop

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#2 - 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

#3 - Episode 1

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2016

Annie Quaintain sets off with her children for a new life in Jericho and ends up setting up a boarding house for the labourers. But she is not the only new arrival in town. Handsome navvy Johnny is returning to his native Yorkshire from Africa - only to make violent enemies with a hot-tempered colleague.

Director: Paul Whittington

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#4 - Episode 2

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2016

Annie opens the door for Bamford the railway detective, who has returned to Jericho.

Director: Paul Whittington

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#5 - Episode 3

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/21/2016

Annie's world is rocked when Martha falls seriously ill with fever.

Director: Robert McKillop

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#6 - 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: Stephen Thompson

#7 - 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 - The Lost Child

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/2/2019

Max's nephew suffers a breakdown after the drowning of a fellow cadet at a military academy. The police department refute suspicions but Max shows Oskar a pattern of violence and believes that they're looking at a murder investigation.

Director: Umut Dağ

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#9 - Time Heist

Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 9/20/2014

The Bank of Karabraxos is the deadliest bank in the cosmos - only a fool or genius would tempt to rob it. Fortunately, for The Doctor, he's both. But nothing even The Doctor has encountered can prepare them for the Teller: a creature of terrifying power that can detect guilt.

Director: Douglas Mackinnon

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#10 - Stories

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/10/2018

Director: Matthew Parkhill

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#11 - Episode 8

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/25/2016

In the aftermath of the trial, ANNIE and JOHNNY’s relationship is out in the open and they’re finally able to enjoy the intimacy of their union. With COATES on his way out of town, it seems that nothing can now disturb the peace and closeness between them. Except that COATES is determined that his time in Jericho is not yet done. The new quarry is a huge success for Jericho. Blasting through the rock, the men discover a cavern of sandstone that will change the fortunes of the viaduct. The only problem is that Jericho’s navvies won’t go near it: superstitions abound that the mine is on cursed land, the land where the bodies of HAPPY JACK, SKINNY and RED were buried.

Director: David Moore

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#12 - Queen of the Night

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/25/2019

Oskar is called away from Max and Clara’s engagement party with news of a murder in a Spittelberg brothel. Oskar is quick to make an arrest, but Max is not convinced that they have the right man.

Director: Umut Dağ

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#13 - The Last Seance

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/18/2019

Junior doctor Max Liebermann asks to observe a criminal case for his studies. Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt reluctantly offers him full access to the case of a murdered woman.

Director: Robert Dornhelm

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#14 - Episode 7

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/13/2021

Having found Caterina, Leonardo continues his work, but is frustrated by the growing success of a younger artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Putting his feelings aside, Leonardo allows himself to be persuaded to accept a new commission.

Director: Daniel Percival

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#15 - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 4/27/2013

When a salvage ship attempts to pull the TARDIS aboard when the time vessel's shields are down, an explosion occurs. The Doctor forces the salvage crew to help him find Clara, who is lost somewhere inside his vessel.

Director: Mat King

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#16 - Reunion

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/26/2018

Anna and her brother struggle to protect her daughters in France. Alexander Said, who led the team in Tehran, arrives in London, but The Section head is in no mood for forgiveness.

Director: Robert Connolly

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#17 - Episode 8

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/13/2021

With time running out, Stefano races to save Leonardo and finally discovers the truth behind his biggest kept secret; armed with the facts but lacking the evidence, an unexpected revelation leaves Stefano turning to an unlikely source for help.

Director: Daniel Percival

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#18 - The Curse of the Black Spot

Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 5/7/2011

The TARDIS is marooned onboard a 17th-century pirate ship whose crew is being attacked by a mysterious and beautiful sea creature. Becalmed and beset by cabin fever, the pirates have numerous superstitious explanations for the Siren's appearance. The Doctor has other ideas but, as his theories are disproved and every plan of escape is thwarted, he must work to win the trust of the implacable Captain Avery and uncover the truth behind the pirates' supernatural fears – and he must work quickly, for some of his friends have already fallen under the Siren's spell...

Director: Jeremy Webb

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#19 - Episode 1

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/2021

In Milan, in 1506, Leonardo da Vinci is arrested on charges of having poisoned Caterina da Cremona. After declaring his innocence to Stefano Giraldi, an official of the Podestà, Leonardo recalls his days as an apprentice in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, where he first met the model Caterina.

Director: Daniel Percival

Writer: Stephen Thompson

#20 - Episode 4

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/30/2021

When Ludovico asks Leonardo to create an equestrian statue in honor of his father, it stimulates his ambition even more, and the artist strives to exceed the expectations placed on him. While working on the work, Da Vinci places his trust in a person everyone would judge unreliable: Salaì, a resourceful young thief.

Director: Daniel Percival

Writer: Stephen Thompson