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Sherlock Holmes Is Real
by Baker Street Digressions
A fictional docudrama about a supposed conspiracy to turn Sherlock Holmes from a historical figure to a fictional character over the last hundred years by person or persons unknown.
Episodes
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The Sherlock Holmes Podcast Club Fanfic Special
Micro-fiction fanfic readings anyone? If you're not into a variety of near-crossovers, that's okay, the show quickly devolves into casting Muppets as Sherlock Holmes characters.
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The Non-Footage of a Mailbag Episode
The Sherlock Holmes Is Real podcast panel of experts answers listener emails for the first time ever. Will it be the last? A guest appearance by Pickle Jimmy Evans makes the episode complete.
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The Footage They Called Elementary
Talon King has learned about a TV show called "Elementary" and brings the usual panel of experts in to analyze the show's first episode, while minions of Moriarty mysterious coverse in the background in several suspicious moments in the audio. What's going on? As usual, nobody ever knows on this...
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The Footage of the Tyrant's Daughter
Our panel of experts confronts their biggest challenge yet -- bits of Watson's documentary footage that seem to have been doctored with AI by Moriarty's people in their efforts to make it look like fifties television. Can they crack it, or are they just cracked? Listen in and find out!
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The Sherlock Holmes Podcast Club Film Fest Fight!
Sherlock Holmes Is Real again shares its feed to the Sherlock Holmes Podcast Club as they bid against each other to create Sherlock Holmes film festivals.
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The Footage of the Snakes in a Van -- Holmes in the Heartland 2026 Investigated!
In a totally new investigation, podcast host Talon King and master of disguise Shecky Spielberg infiltrate the Holmes in the Heartland conference in St. Louis, Missouri, with Dr. Janet Peters and Mrs. Horace "Thingy" Thimbleberger running tech support in a van parked outside the event. You'll…
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The Footage of the Diamond Tooth
For some reason these "experts" don't connect this footage to "The Speckled Band," because they fall so heavily for the "diamond tooth" bait like the fools they are. We agents of Moriarty spend a lot of time altering that Watson footage and don't appreciate when we can't even have decent...
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The Sherlock Holmes Podcast Club Tom Baker Special
Sherlock Holmes Is Real loans its feed to the Sherlock Holmes Podcast Club this week for commentary on Tom Baker's various path-crossings with Sherlock Holmes. Part of the deal was allowing Talon King to do the theme song for their podcast, so you still get that much of the usual show, for better...
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The Footage of the Unlucky Gambler
The REAL Sherlock Holmes is Real crew is back to discuss "The Case of the Unlucky Gambler" as seen on the YouTubes as a TV show instead of being truly credited as Watson's documentary footage of his time with Sherlock Holmes. And Sergeant Wilkins is back, and smarter than ever!
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Thursdays With Moriarty
Regular listeners to Thursdays With Moriarty only, please. Feed reroute as per Incommoded Protocol 5 from darkest web channel.
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The Footage of the Neurotic Detective
Join the Sherlock Holmes Is Real panel of experts as they dissect the most mental-health-centered footage from Watson's late 1800s documentaries, re-edited by Moriarty's remnants of a gang to look like a 1950's TV show. Who is the real neurotic detective? And are Sedgely and Sedately signs of a...
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The Footage of the Moriarty Propaganda alias Young Sherlock
Before heading out to St. Patrick's Day parades and other festivities if you have watched TV's new "Young Sherlock," best listen to SHIR's crack team of conspiracy wranglers to see if you might have been programmed for Irish boxing by the latest incursion into film by Moriarty's minions. IT COULD...
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The Footage of the Haunted Gainborough
King, Thimbleburger, and Spielberg explore what went on with Watson's documentary footage of Sherlock Holmes investigating a Scottish ghost. Are gloves on the ground evidence that ghosts are near? Did Sherlock Holmes have a. technique that Velma Dinkley should have used? And are there ghosts in...
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The Footage of the Royal Murder and Irregular Break-ins
Our usual team of experts goes live and on-camera for a session recorded at the annual Dangling Prussian night of the Montage Street Incorrigibles. Moriarty interference, text messages, and phone calls from New York City all give us troubles, and at the 40 minute and 52 minute marks you can hear...
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The Footage of the Baker Street Nursemaids
In a Moriartian mix-up, this is actually episode five for 2025, delayed until after episode six. In this bit of Watsonian footage we see how child care can turn Watson's fatherly instincts into becoming a virtual punching machine to save his charge.
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The Footage of the Baker Street Bachelors
Talon King, Dr. Janet Peters, Mrs. Horace Thimbleburger, and Mr. Shecky Spielberg attempt to review the most mystifying Moriarty-minion-edit of Watson's documentary footage to date. John Watson, actually afraid of women? Impossible!
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The Footage of the Night Train Riddle
Watson gets to show off both his physical and mental skills in this latest documentary footage of his time with Sherlock Holmes, and we finally get to see one of the most famous figures in Sherlock's life, as well as insights into the pedigree of a particular character from Magnum PI. The truth…
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The Footage of the Christmas Pudding
Amazing as it may seem, our panel of experts came back for a second episode, like they might even be regulars now! Join Talon King, Mrs. Horace "Thingy" Thimbleberger, Dr. Janet Peters, and Shecky Spielberg as they explore Christmas pudding in July. How many Victorians named "John H. Something"...
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The footage of the Deadly Prophecy
Sherlock Holmes Is Real has reloaded with a new group of experts to analyze Watson's documentary footage as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go to Belgium to see a theoretical beauty about a sleepwalking boy who predicts death, all in the case the YouTubes call "The Case of the Deadly Prophecy."…
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The footage of the Wrong Podcast
Hello. I've only got a few seconds here to type this, but, Chizzers just pushed some other podcast into this feed to add more confusion to this show's mission. Notice all the weird Sherlock TV shows that are coming out? Watson alive while Holmes is dead? Sherlock Holmes and his daughter? You…
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The Footage of the Careless Suffaragette
When women's rights becomes a literally explosive topic in Victorian England, villains emerge . . . could we finally have found Moriarty in Watson's documentary footage? Or was it someone else, all along? The clues are here!
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The Footage of the Impromptu Performance
Talon King struggles to document the Watson documentary footage titled "The Case of the Impromptu Performance" on YouTube after being disturbed that another Watson seems to be documenting cases on a new podcast and distracting innocents from the original Watson. Sherlock Holmes works on…
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The Footage of the Eiffel Tower. And Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
The events of the past year may have taken their toll on host Talon King, and last episode's podcast takeover by complete strangers have not helped his mental state. This week's co-host might not be long-term.
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The footage of the Imposter Mystery
Bud, Marco, and LaDonna deep dive into episode twenty-nine of the 1954 TV series "Sherlock Holmes" starring Ron Howard and Marian Crawford, and they find that Bud can't get over a guy that looks like Matt Damon. And what is Marco drinking this week? Everything is same old, same old with your...
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The footage of the Vanished Detective
Paul and Talon are joined by tea afficionado Heather Hinson who emphasizes the importance of letting Scotland Yard inspectors have their tea. Oh, and Watson has lost Sherlock Holmes, but we still have a double dose of Sergeant Wilkins, the unwritten hero of Sherlockian lore.
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The Footage of the Thistle Killer
Paul and Talon look into Watson's documentary footage of a Victorian serial killer apparently suppressed by official histories, and Inspector Lestrade's first foray into filming.
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Special Report: The Chimp Who Looked Like Sherlock Holmes
Paul and Talon jump online for breaking news about a new cover-up in the history of the great detective Sherlock Holmes, this time involving comics.
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The Footage of the Laughing Mummy
What happens when John H. Watson, documentary film-maker, attempts to create the first fishing show and only manages to catch Sardines? Talon King and Paul Thomas Miller explore the finer points of more Watson documentary footage of an attempted vacation and England's worst bed-and-breakfast, as...
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The footage of the Graystone Inscription
Does Watson's footage of the real events he re-wrote as "The Musgrave Ritual" make for a better story than the print version? Are lobsters and tomatoes a thing? And what was Sherlock Holmes's deal there? Talon King and Paul Thomas Miller are back analyzing Watson's documentary film like only such...
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Blue Carbuncle Eve Special: A Christmas Goose
As a very special Blue Carbungle Eve treat, the host of some other podcast reads "A Christmas Goose" by Mary O'Reilly. Gather 'round the old timey radio and give this tale a listen!
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The footage of the Singing Violin
Talon and Paul are back after an extra-long summer hiatus, and the analysis of Dr. Watson's evolution as a documentary film-maker is going strong. Talon's wandering accent is topped by his many pronunciations of the name "Durham," and Paul shows what a great musical ear he has for Watson's voice....
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The footage of the French interpreter
The Sherlock Holmes Realist Society joins Talon and Paul for a second time as they examine the footage for the case Watson would eventually write up as "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter."
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The footage of the jolly hangman (and the Realists!)
The brand new Sherlock Holmes Realist Society comes together to support and encourage our investigations of Watson's documentary footage by jumping straight into the fray. Watson's baby impression and the truth about Martha from "His Last Bow" are just a part of what you'll learn from this one.
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The footage of the Split Ticket analyzed
Iread Bleakly, an analyst analyst, has appeared in Paul's absence to help review the footage of a nervous Irishman. Basil of Baker Street's reality is questioned. Suspicions are raised of leprechaunism and many other things.
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The footage of the Shoeless Engineer tested
The actual live footage of the real Sherlock Holmes solving the case Watson would write up as "The Engineer's Thumb" is analyzed by King and Miller, as their investigation of the Watson documentary footage continues. They test the footage with an audience again, this time pulling the entire John…
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The footage of the Red-Headed League tested
The two men who definitely haven't drank the "1954 TV" Sherlock Holmes Kool-Aid (because one of them doesn't know what Kool-Aid even is) are back to not only analyze Watson's documentary footage -- now they're testing it on human subjects! The trans-Atlantic investigation of the fictionalizing of...
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The footage of the divinity fudge killer
Talon King, Victorian film expert Paul Thomas Miller, and special guest, social anthropologist Raquel Rodriguez, look at some of the most disturbing of Dr. Watson's documentary footage to date -- his recordings of the serial killer called "Mother Hubbard" by the conspirators attempting to portray...
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The footage of Harry Crocker
Man about town Talon King and Holmesian boy genius Paul Thomas Miller examine the found footage of "The Case of Harry Crocker," and note how many people in Victorian England looked similar to each other, the one-sided nature of London houses, and more indications of Sherlock Holmes as more…
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The footage of the blind man's bluff
Paul Thomas Miller and Talon King are back, with one of the worst sound engineers in the podcast industry, Jimmy "Army" Buckles. Is the result a listenable podcast? We don't know, but if you make it to the end, you can hear Talon's mum play a jaunty tune on her squeeze box.
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The footage of the Winthrop pirate curse
Casey Hills from "The Final Podblem" podcast joins Talon and Paul for some of the weirdest documentary footage so far, wherein a single word seems to derail logical thought, and at some point the guy who does the sound editing seems to come in and take Talon's place. It's an hour and a half of...
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The footage of the scandalous ballerina parts
It was the best of episodes, it was the worst of episodes, as our panel of experts analyzes the footage filed under "The Case of the Shy Ballerina," referencing Billy Wilder, the myth of British sex, Victorian hat use, the Watsonic poetry style, and then completely fall out of character by the…
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The footage about the nose-pulling ghost
Does adding a professional counsellor help the show, or does it just lead Talon and Randy to more perversity as Paul tries to keep a modicum of dignity to the proceedings? And it's October, so a Watson-abusing ghost is as seasonal as pumpkin spice scones! Join the our documentary-analyzing team…
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The footage of the questionable cowgirl
With our resident Victorian film expert out of action this episode, amateur podcaster Talon King and Sherlock Holmes superfan Randy Davis attempt to analyze "The Case of the Texas Cowgirl" on their own. The results, missing the input of the more intelligent member of the team, are probably at the...
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The footage of the castle in Macleod's domain
Talon King, Victorian film expert Paul Thomas Miller, Sherlock Holmes superfan Randy Davis, and special guest Professor Amity Cannon, expert in secret societies, all join forces to break down the documentary footage that Watson based his novel "The Valley of Fear" upon, which was released to the...
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The footage of Sherlock's meth lab and Lady Beryl's face
In our second review of Watson's documentary footage, Holmes and Wilkins spend a day in a questionable laboratory, Watson and Lestrade find a common bond, and Watson gives Lady Beryl her close-up. As we saw last time, John H. Watson left a lot out when he got around to writing about Sherlock…
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The footage of Watson's first day with Sherlock Holmes
In season five's bold new adventure for "Sherlock Holmes is Real," new host Talon King welcomes Paul Thomas Miller for a thorough analysis of found documentary footage filmed by Dr. Watson himself, hidden on the internet under the guise of a 1954 TV show that no one really remembers being on TV.…
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The NEW Sherlock Holmes Is Real
With the former hosts of the show lost to investigations and quarantine, Talon King pitches the new "Sherlock Holmes is Real." Because THIS time, Sherlock Holmes is really real.
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Episode Twenty-Six: The Secret of Mary Morstan
The pandemic has kept the usual hosts out of the studio, and their replacement tries hard to fill the void with a new Mary Morstan revelation . . . and a song.
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Episode Twenty-five: Talon Take the Wheel!
It was a time of much worry and woe. It was a time of care and concern. And yet one Sherlockian's brother finds podcast equipment and ignores all of that, recording some of the worst Sherlockian content you will hear all year.
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Episode Twenty-four: Trick or Treek
With half the hosts in a place we're not sure of, a mini-sode that we're not sure of somehow finds its way to the feed. Happy Moorville-ween!
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A fictional docudrama about a supposed conspiracy to turn Sherlock Holmes from a historical figure to a fictional character over the last hundred years by person or persons unknown.
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Sherlock Holmes Is Real is created and hosted by Baker Street Digressions.
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