The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter is seen writing a story in his blog titled "The Geek Interpreter". In the 2014 episode "The Empty Hearse", Sherlock and his brother Mycroft have a casual competition over analyzing a certain knitted hat, a reference to the discussion in this short story on analyzing a man they see on the street through the window of the Diogenes Club. In the 2015 special, The Abominable Bride, a Mr Melas is also referenced as waiting to see Mycroft after he has discussed a case with his brother and Dr. Watson. In the seventh episode of the NHK puppetry Sherlock Holmes, Sherman,
Sherlock Holmes pastiches Mr. Mycroft. American novelist and filmmaker Nicholas Meyer wrote three Holmes novels: "The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" (1974), "The West End Horror" (1976), and "The Canary Trainer" (1993). In 1977 the novel "Exit Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective's Final Days" by Robert Lee Hall was published, and featured an exploration of Holmes' origins with a science fiction twist. In this account Holmes and Moriarty are revealed to be from the future. Randall Collins published in 1978 "The Case of the Philosophers' Ring", under the pseudonym Dr. John H. Watson, with Holmes' services requested at Cambridge, around 1914, by Bertrand Russell, and meeting