“Sherlock,” a popular TV drama produced by the BBC and aired from 2010, is set in present day London and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, solving various crime mysteries together with his friend Dr. John Watson, played by Martin Freeman.
It starts off with Watson, having returned from military service as a doctor in Afghanistan after being wounded, battling the traumas of his experiences in the war that began in 2001.
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's “Sherlock Holmes” detective stories, which the TV series is based on, Watson is depicted as a veteran who served in the second Anglo-Afghan war in 1878.