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‘Sherlock’ Sends Benedict Cumberbatch Back in Time to Victorian London

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The definitive modern-day version of the Sherlock Holmes story travels back to the Victorian era in “The Abominable Bride,” a new special episode.

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They finally got Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes to put on that iconic deerstalker cap.

In an episode from the second series of Masterpiece’s contemporary-set Sherlock, the title character impulsively uses the hat most associated with the literary detective to hide his face from the paparazzi.

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