"The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Produced by
Sue Vertue
Featured music
David Arnold
Michael Price
Cinematography by
Stuart Biddlecombe[1]
Editing by
Will Oswald
Original air date
1 January 2017 (2017-01-01)
Running time
88 minutes
Guest appearances
Lindsay Duncan as Lady Smallwood
Sian Brooke as Elizabeth
Sacha Dhawan as Ajay
Marcia Warren as Vivian Norbury
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"The Six Thatchers" is the first episode of the fourth series of the British television programme Sherlock and the eleventh episode overall. The episode was first broadcast on BBC One, BBC First, PBS and Channel One[2][3] on 1 January 2017.
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^"Sherlock: what do we know about the fourth series". Meduza. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
^"The fourth series of Sherlock on the Channel One". Channel One Russia. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
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