Benedict Cumberbatch `honoured` to top favourite BBC characters poll
He continued: "Who would have thought a high-functioning sociopath could be so popular... all over the world?"
Another poll of iconic BBC moments saw Sherlock seemingly falling to his death score more than a quarter of the vote.
That put the ending of 2012`s Reichenbach Fall episode streets ahead of Monty Python`s Dead Parrot sketch, its closest competitor.