The BBC Television Four Network set off a whole series of a season’s worth of documentaries, films and dramas celebrating Arthur Conan Doyle and his creations, including the renowned detective Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger.

The season long programming began on Christmas Eve with ‘The Lost World’ Part 1 with Bob Hoskins starring as maverick Professor Challenger. Part 2 was shown on Christmas night.

Also seen on December 25th was ‘Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes’ starring Ian Richardson.

If you missed any of the shows I have no doubt that the BBC plans on doing repeats throughout the season.

Here is what you can expect to see for the remainder of December:

Monday 26 December
THE MAN WHO LOVED SHERLOCK HOLMES
Monday 26 December 9pm-10pm
How the world’s leading Holmes expert came to be garrotted with a bootlace tightened with a wooden spoon.

BAKER STREET BABYLON: THE BIZARRE AFTERLIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (TIME SHIFT)
Monday 26 December 10pm-10.30pm
A compendium of clips of the strangest Sherlocks ever seen on screen, from John Cleese to Roland Rat.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE SIGN OF FOUR
Monday 26 December 10.30pm-11.20pm
Peter Cushing stars as Holmes as he sets out to solve a case involving stolen treasure, a murderous pygmy and a secret pact.

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE SILK STOCKING
Monday 26 December 11.20pm-1am
A tale from 2004 in which Rupert Everett and Ian Hart track a serial killer.

Tuesday 27 December
BAKER STREET BABYLON: THE BIZARRE AFTERLIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (TIME SHIFT)
Tuesday 27 December 7pm-7.30pm
A compendium of clips of the strangest Sherlocks ever seen on screen, from John Cleese to Roland Rat.

THIS IS GENIUS
Tuesday 27 December 10pm-10.30pm; 3am-3.30am
An illuminating journey through Holmes’ London.

FILM: SHERLOCK HOLMES’ SMARTER BROTHER
Tuesday 27 December 10.30pm-12am
Holmes delegates a blackmail case to his younger brother Siegerson (Gene Wilder) but he soon finds his own investigation bound up with it. Comedy directed by Gene Wilder.

Wednesday 28 December
FILM: SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET WEAPON
Wednesday 28 December 11pm-12.05am
Holmes is called in to rescue the prototype of a secret weapon and its inventor from Moriarty and the Nazis.

Thursday 29 December
CONAN DOYLE FOR THE DEFENCE
Thursday 29 December 11.55pm-12.55am
The story of two controversial and illuminating cases of injustice which Conan Doyle helped overturn.

Source: BBC