With Watson kicking off by depicting one of the most pivotal Sherlock Holmes scenes, series creator Craig Sweeny weighed in on whether Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective could ever appear in the show. Created by Sweeny for CBS, the series is a modernized reimagining of Doyle’s influential works, with Morris Chestnut’s Watson assembling his own team of hopeful doctors to solve mysteries. Watson’s first episode premiered on January 26, and featured Ritchie Coster and Rochelle Aytes as Shinwell Johnson and Mary Morstan alongside Chestnut’s portrayal of Watson.
As Watson opened on an adaptation of Holmes and James Moriarty’s (Randall Park) final and fatal struggle at the Reichenbach Falls from


