"JOHN H. WATSON, CRIME DOCTOR" Pilot
Author: Timothy Erving Liebe"
Author: Timothy Erving Liebe"
Authors contact email: tliebe@gmail.com
Authors' phone number: (917) 378-0831
Authors' phone number: (917) 378-0831
LOGLINE
What Did Dr. Watson *Really* Do After Sherlock Holmes (allegedly) died?
TONEMystery, Steampunk Sherlock Holmes meets *C.S.I. *
SYNOPSIS
In an alternate 1890s United Kingdom where powered airships and steamcars
exist, and the 1850s War of Indian Independence ended with India as a part
of the United Kingdom rather than a colony, The Great Detective Sherlock
Holmes and his friend Dr. John H. Watson, M.D., investigate crimes…until
Holmes and his archenemy Prof. Moriarty both apparently fall to their
mutual doom over Reichenbach Falls. Two years later, Watson is still
reeling from the deaths of not only his closest friend but also his wife
Mary, who died in childbirth along with his unborn daughter.
Just-promoted Scotland Yard Inspector Stanley Hopkins is assigned to solve
a series of “Toff” (men of societal rank and station) homicides, who have
all been murdered in the same grisly fashion. At the midnight scene of the
latest killing, that of the Duke of Kent’s son Lord Edward, he meets Senior
Constable Rahul Muhkerjee, a former medical student, and his partner
Constable Harry Tybalt. Both direct his attention to the state of Lord
Edward’s hands, pointing out that noblemen do not commonly have rough hands
and dirt under their fingernails. Impressed by the intelligence of the
young officers, Hopkins tells them to meet him the next day.
Sherlock Holmes’s older brother Mycroft, who is…something in the Home
Office and employs the widowed Mrs. Bollinger to complete her late
husband’s mysterious invention, asks Dr. Watson to perform the post-mortem
on Lord Edward’s body, and invites Hopkins and his Constables to observe.
In so doing they begin to uncover a deep conspiracy, one that could shake
Britain’s aristocracy to its core….
10-part Serialized Limited-Run Series
What Did Dr. Watson *Really* Do After Sherlock Holmes (allegedly) died?
TONEMystery, Steampunk Sherlock Holmes meets *C.S.I. *
SYNOPSIS
In an alternate 1890s United Kingdom where powered airships and steamcars
exist, and the 1850s War of Indian Independence ended with India as a part
of the United Kingdom rather than a colony, The Great Detective Sherlock
Holmes and his friend Dr. John H. Watson, M.D., investigate crimes…until
Holmes and his archenemy Prof. Moriarty both apparently fall to their
mutual doom over Reichenbach Falls. Two years later, Watson is still
reeling from the deaths of not only his closest friend but also his wife
Mary, who died in childbirth along with his unborn daughter.
Just-promoted Scotland Yard Inspector Stanley Hopkins is assigned to solve
a series of “Toff” (men of societal rank and station) homicides, who have
all been murdered in the same grisly fashion. At the midnight scene of the
latest killing, that of the Duke of Kent’s son Lord Edward, he meets Senior
Constable Rahul Muhkerjee, a former medical student, and his partner
Constable Harry Tybalt. Both direct his attention to the state of Lord
Edward’s hands, pointing out that noblemen do not commonly have rough hands
and dirt under their fingernails. Impressed by the intelligence of the
young officers, Hopkins tells them to meet him the next day.
Sherlock Holmes’s older brother Mycroft, who is…something in the Home
Office and employs the widowed Mrs. Bollinger to complete her late
husband’s mysterious invention, asks Dr. Watson to perform the post-mortem
on Lord Edward’s body, and invites Hopkins and his Constables to observe.
In so doing they begin to uncover a deep conspiracy, one that could shake
Britain’s aristocracy to its core….
10-part Serialized Limited-Run Series
Awards Won
WRPN.TV Platinum Award Winter 2023,
New York Screenwriting Awards Best Pilot Screenplay
European Winner 2023, ISA
Table Read My Screenplay Genre Screenplay Competition
Top 10 2022, Emerging Screenwriters
Suspense Screenplay Competition Quarter-Finalist 2022
...and
some other Quarter-finalist, Second-Round or Top 100 laurels
