The Best Episodes Written By Steve Thompson

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.7/10(224 votes)

   #1 - The Reichenbach Fall

   S2:E31/15/2012

   The return of Moriarty. The crime of the century. Can Sherlock possibly survive?

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   8.0/10(212 votes)

   #2 - The Sign of Three

   S3:E21/5/2014

   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.

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   7.9/10(8 votes)

   #3 - The Case of the Missing Button

   S1:E43/4/2026

   Sherlock returns to his childhood home in search of answers.

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   7.8/10(11 votes)

   #4 - The Case of the Burnt Photograph

   S1:E23/4/2026

   Sherlock is thrown into jail. He has to clear his name or face the gallows.

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   7.4/10(232 votes)

   #5 - The Blind Banker

   S1:E28/1/2010

   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.

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   7.2/10(68 votes)

   #6 - Time Heist

   S8:E59/20/2014

   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.

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   6.8/10(6 votes)

   #7 - Syracuse

   S1:E21/22/2025

   Ed's work catches the attention of NSA operative Taylah Sanders and a mysterious institute.

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   6.8/10(6 votes)

   #8 - The Sequence

   S1:E31/29/2025

   While retracing Safiya's steps, Ed uncovers chilling pleas from the past. Taylah tries to earn Ed's trust.

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   6.7/10(61 votes)

   #9 - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

   S7:E104/27/2013

   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.

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    6.7/10(6 votes)

    #10 - Prime Finder

    S1:E72/26/2025

    Ed is coerced into completing his work. Taylah considers an ultimatum. An ally gets trapped in the middle of the mayhem.

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    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Episode 7

    S1:E74/13/2021

    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.

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    6.3/10(63 votes)

    #12 - The Curse of the Black Spot

    S6:E35/7/2011

    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...

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    6.2/10(10 votes)

    #13 - A New Pattern

    S1:E11/22/2025

    Cambridge student Edward Brooks starts working on a secret research project that triggers unthinkable chaos.

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    6.2/10(6 votes)

    #14 - House of Wisdom

    S1:E52/12/2025

    Ed and Taylah join Andrea in Baghdad, where they unearth ancient, buried answers—and get caught in the crosshairs of an unknown enemy.

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    6.0/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Kaplar

    S1:E42/5/2025

    Ed digs deeper for clues at the institute. Andrea navigates devastating news in Baghdad. Taylah reconnects with leadership.

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    5.8/10(5 votes)

    #16 - The Key

    S1:E83/5/2025

    As Ed and Taylah try to expose the truth, a deadly threat is discovered to be closer than they could have imagined.

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    5.7/10(7 votes)

    #17 - Episode 8

    S1:E84/13/2021

    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.

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    5.5/10(8 votes)

    #18 - Episode 1

    S1:E13/23/2021

    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.

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    5.4/10(7 votes)

    #19 - Episode 4

    S1:E43/30/2021

    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.

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