Is there a theory out there that when the series ended she left Cabot Cove and moved to the peaceful English village of Midsomer? Because that would explain a lot.

Hart reminded me - especially in HOUN - of nothing so much as a younger version of probably my favourite big-screen Watson, James Mason's version in Murder By Decree: the same decency, doggedness, respect mixed with exasperation for Holmes, courage, and level-headedness.

My 'local' PBS station has for years been KCTS-9 in Seattle, and they're savvy enough (along with all the other border PBS stations, I guess) to offer tax receipts for Canadian donations, so I've been contributing for years. Even worked the phone lines for one of their pledge drives years ago, when our local Sherlock…

I would love to see PBS be the first network to figure out this whole 'world without TV borders' thing and act accordingly.

There's also a mention of the Trepoff murders (one of the unrecorded cases). The woman who comes to see Holmes with her stepfather basically tells the story of 'A Case of Identity'. And the 'deduce-off' between Sherlock and Mycroft is based on a similar event in 'The Greek Interpreter'.

Also a nod to The Woman in Green, with Rathbone and Bruce, in which an aged bookseller turns up at Baker Street and Watson, convinced it's Holmes in disguise trying to fool him, proceeds to be rude to the man and then tries pulling his beard (which isn't fake).

At this rate, savvy 'Viewers Like You' will be watching series three of Last Tango in Halifax as it airs in Britain, at about the same time series two finishes airing on PBS (and it really is a charming series; highly recommended. Anne Reid can do no wrong in my books).

WE'RE REALLY NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE SPOILERS, EVEN IF WE'RE NOT REALLY SURE WE'RE SPOILING SOMETHING THAT WILL EVER TURN OUT TO BE TRUE

"Watch right to the end - you'll be amazed!'

POSSIBLE SPOILERS SO LOOK AWAY NOW

Oh, how I loved this show back when it was airing daily after school. The episode that spoofs 'The Most Dangerous Game' is brilliant, and the bit where Max and 99 are confronted by a rickety bamboo and rope bridge over a chasm is classic:

I'd suggest you go back and read the short stories (of which there are 56) and novels (of which there are only 4) that ACD wrote. For every 'Holmes and Watson solve a murder / prevent disgrace to the government' story, there's one where there's no crime at all that they investigate ('The Veiled Lodger'), or one that's…

Yes, laughed out loud in delight at that scene.

Thanks, Cookie Monster, for saying pretty much what I would have said. The stories haven't endured for more than a century just because of the plots; there are lots of better-plotted detective stories out there (and ACD, for all he went on about playing fair with the reader, very often doesn't). They've endured and…

Go back and read (or re-read) the canon. Conan Doyle's Holmes was immature and childish, and cruel (and nasty and sarcastic and condescending) to Watson on several occasions. Moffat and Gatiss aren't making all this stuff up; they've gone directly to the original stories for it.

Good to see the shout-out to Ian Hart; the Roxburgh version of Hound isn't very highly thought of by many Sherlockians, but I've seen almost every filmed version of HOUN out there, and it's in my top three (along with the Rathbone version from 1939 and the Cushing TV version from 1968). One of the reasons I like it so…

Ah, I wondered how long it would take to get to a complaint about the ‘fan service’ in this episode (and the series as a whole). As a longtime Holmes fan – I’ve written intros to two separate editions of the canon, know the Rathbone films inside-out, can tell you how many Moriarty brothers there were, have written and…

Re-reading the explanation as to how Holmes faked his death that I posted on the AV Club’s review of ‘The Reichenbach Fall’ two years ago – which I’d forgotten about – I’m pleased to see that the third of tonight’s three solutions is pretty close to the one I came up with. For obvious reasons I prefer to think that thi…

Surely there would be a lot more Chinese and/or Indian immigrants in England at this time.

My favourite part about this episode is the cautious friendship of sorts between Violet and Isobel. Not that they'll ever be friends, precisely, but Violet shows the tact and understanding of which she's capable when she says to Isobel 'I hope you find a way to make friends with the world again.' She even goes so far…