Out on the moors, filming take after take of a nighttime scene into the early hours of the morning… It’s well worth it if you’re making an episode of Sherlock but it certainly leaves you ready for your bed afterwards.


So it was bad luck for Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue when they returned to their hotel after working on The Hounds of Baskerville to find they’d been locked out – by Benedict Cumberbatch.

“It was Dartmoor and it was about five o’clock in the morning,” said Sherlock producer Vertue, setting the scene for a rapt (if giggly) audience at the Radio Times Festival on Sunday.

“We got back to the hotel, and Benedict had been wrapped about half an hour, and it was one of those things. He said ‘I wasn’t sure if they said lock the door or don’t lock the door, so I locked the door…’ So we just slept in the car park.”

“We were locked out of our hotel and we had to sleep in our car like in a horror film,” chipped in Sherlock star and co-creator Mark Gatiss. “I thought someone was going to bang on the roof…”


Well at least one person got a peaceful night’s sleep…