The Abominable Bride

"**The Abominable Bride**"
"The Abominable Bride"
Sherlock episode
	Promotional release poster
Episode no.	Episode 10
Directed by	Douglas Mackinnon
Written by	Mark Gatiss; Steven Moffat;
Featured music	David Arnold; Michael Price;
Cinematography by	Suzie Lavelle
Editing by	Andrew McClelland
Original air date	1 January 2016
Running time	93 minutes
Guest appearances
	Andrew Scott as James Moriarty; Jonathan Aris as Anderson; Yasmine Akram as Janine Donlevy; Catherine McCormack as Lady Carmichael; Tim McInnerny as Sir Eustace Carmichael; Natasha O'Keeffe as Emelia Ricoletti; Stephanie Hyam as Jane;
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"The Abominable Bride" is a special episode of the British television programme Sherlock. The episode was broadcast on BBC One, PBS and Channel One on 1 January 2016. It depicts the characters of the show in an alternative timeline: the Victorian London setting of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The title is based on the quote "Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife" from "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" (1893), which refers to a case mentioned by Holmes.^[1] The story also draws on elements of original Conan Doyle stories of Holmes such as "The Five Orange Pips" (1891) and "The Final Problem" (1893).

The episode won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie, the first win of the series in that category.

^ Jones, Paul (24 October 2015). "What does the title The Abominable Bride tell us about the Sherlock special?". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 October 2015.

[1] Jones, Paul (24 October 2015). "What does the title The Abominable Bride tell us about the Sherlock special?". Radio Times. Retrieved 26 October 2015.

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