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'Sherlock' Comic-Con Panel Interview: Executive Producer Steven Moffat Says They 'Won't Run Out' of Stories

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's source material teems with adventure stories of its main characters Sherlock and his side-kick Dr. Watson. Various adaptations on television and big screen presentations may overlap with the same plotlines but as what executive producer Steven Moffat said during the panel for the BBC series "Sherlock," there would still be a lot of exciting ways to tell the exploits of the famous sleuth.

"There is a ton material that no one ever touches in Sherlock Holmes," Moffat said at Comic-Con.

"There's a whole bunch of other stories, ideas and villains that are in there. I'm not telling you which ones are taking our attention, at the moment, but there's a bunch of other stuff. There are 60 stories," he continued. "There's a whole bunch of things we can do. We can make up new stories. We can combine stories. There are a ton of great ideas, great mysteries, great ideas, great gags for us to use. We won't run out because, frankly, we make this show so incredibly slowly."

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The series co-creator was further asked as to how he was able to write straight for "Sherlock" and his other hit scripted program, "Doctor Who."

"They're such different things. I never think of them as the same, at all," Moffat answered.

"Sherlock, in the end, is having various emotional crises while pretending to do detective work. And Doctor Who is fighting monsters," he went on to explain.

The panel went on to reveal about the progress of Season 4 which Moffat admits that he still haven't picked up yet.

"We haven't written the next [season] yet, but I'm pretty much assuming that you will see more of that," he said.

For the meantime, fans of BBC One series should look forward to the special holiday episode which will air this December. The story, which Moffat confirmed in earlier press interviews, will be separate from the mainstream series. It will find Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock and Martin Freeman's Watson in a Victorian-era London.

"It's kind of in its own little bubble," Moffat previously said.

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