What is the name of the first novel in the series that the television series starring Benedict Cumberbatch is based on?
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Sherlock (TV series) Sherlock is a crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. Thirteen episodes have been produced, with three-part series airing from 2010–2017, and a special episode that aired on 1 January 2016. The series is set in the present day, while the one-off special features a Victorian period fantasy resembling the original Holmes stories. "Sherlock" is a co-production of the British network BBC and the American station WGBH Boston for its "Masterpiece" anthology series on PBS, along with Hartswood Films, with Moffat, Gatiss, Sue Vertue and Rebecca Eaton serving as executive producers. The series is primarily filmed in Cardiff, Wales, with North Gower Street in London used for exterior shots of Holmes and Watson's 221B Baker Street residence.
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Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published "A Study in Scarlet", the first of four novels about Holmes and Dr. Watson. In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective.
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Child of the Hunt Child of the Hunt is an original novel based on the U.S. television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
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The Hanging Garden (Rankin novel) The Hanging Garden is a 1998 crime novel by Ian Rankin. It is the ninth of the Inspector Rebus novels. It was the second episode in the "Rebus" television series starring John Hannah, airing in 2001.
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Sharpe's Mission Sharpe's Mission is a British television drama, the 11th of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Unlike most of the other installments of the series, this episode was not based on a novel by Bernard Cornwell.
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Poldark (2015 TV series) Poldark is a British-American drama television series that was first broadcast on BBC One on 8 March 2015. The first eight-part series (aired in seven parts in the USA) was based on the first two "Poldark" novels by Winston Graham, adapted by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Edward Bazalgette and Will McGregor. An earlier television series of the same name was based on Graham's first four Poldark novels, broadcast by BBC One between 1975 and 1977.
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Oliver Twist (1999 miniseries) Oliver Twist is a 1999 television miniseries produced by ITV based on the book "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
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The Castle of Wolfenbach The Castle of Wolfenbach (1793) is the most famous novel written by the English Gothic novelist Eliza Parsons. First published in two volumes during 1793, it was one of the seven "horrid novels" recommended by the character Isabella Thorpe to Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's novel "Northanger Abbey" and was an important early work in the genre, predating both Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and Monk Lewis's "The Monk".
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Genius Loci (novel) Genius Loci is a novel by Ben Aaronovitch, focusing on the early career of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". This was the first of Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield novels to be released under the "New Worlds" format.
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List of Agatha Christie's Marple episodes Agatha Christie's Marple is a British ITV television series based on the Miss Marple and other murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie. It is also known as Marple. The title character was played by Geraldine McEwan from the first to third series, until her retirement from the role. She was replaced by Julia McKenzie from the fourth series onwards. The first six episodes were all adaptations of "Miss Marple" novels by Christie. Subsequent episodes were derived both from works featuring Miss Marple but also Christie novels that did not feature the character.
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The Snow Tiger The Snow Tiger is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1975.
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Doctor Who: The First Adventure Doctor Who: The First Adventure is a computer game based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who" released for the BBC Micro in 1983. It was written by Jeremy Ruston.
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Sharpe's Eagle (novel) Sharpe's Eagle is a historical novel in the Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell, first published in 1981. The story is set in July 1809, in the midst of the Talavera Campaign during the Peninsular War. It was the first Sharpe novel published, but eighth in the series' chronological order.
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Sharpe's Enemy (TV programme) Sharpe's Enemy is a British television drama, the fourth of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. This episode is based on the novel of the same name by Bernard Cornwell.
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The White Queen (TV series) The White Queen is a British television drama series in ten parts, based on Philippa Gregory's historical novel series "The Cousins' War" ("The White Queen", "The Red Queen", and "The Kingmaker's Daughter"). The first episode was premiered on BBC One on 16 June 2013 in the United Kingdom. It was first broadcast in the United States on Starz on 9 August 2013.
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Anachrophobia Anachrophobia is a BBC Books original novel written by Jonathan Morris and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.
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Sins of the Father (Buffy novel) Sins of the Father is an original novel based on the U.S. television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". It's tagline was "The past revisits both the slayer and the watcher".
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First Frontier First Frontier is an original novel written by David A. McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice. A prelude to the novel, also penned by McIntee, appeared in "Doctor Who Magazine" #216.
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Apple Tree Yard Apple Tree Yard is a British television thriller, adapted from the novel of the same name by Louise Doughty. The four-part series was commissioned in 2016 and the first episode had its premiere on BBC One on 22 January 2017. Emily Watson stars as the novel's original lead, Dr Yvonne Carmichael, with Ben Chaplin portraying the role of her lover, Mark Costley. "Apple Tree Yard" follows the story of Carmichael, an unhappily married forty-something scientist, who begins a secret affair with Costley whilst being completely unaware of his true identity.
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A Perfect Spy (TV series) A Perfect Spy is a BBC serial adaptation of John le Carré's spy novel "A Perfect Spy" which was aired on BBC2 and it broadcasts from 4 November to 16 December 1987. It follows the career of the British MI6 spy Magnus Pym from his early days as a schoolboy to his eventual disappearance as a suspected agent of the Czech secret service.
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Floating Down to Camelot Floating Down to Camelot is a campus novel by David Benedictus published in 1985 and set in Cambridge.
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Engines of War (Doctor Who) Engines of War is a BBC Books original novel written by George Mann and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the War Doctor.