Diogenes Club - in Other Media

In Other Media

The Diogenes Club has appeared, in various forms, in a great deal of other settings, most of which take as given the Club's connection to the British Secret Service:

• British horror writer Kim Newman has featured versions of the Diogenes Club in both his Anno Dracula and Diogenes Club series. In both settings it is an organisation dedicated to investigating the paranormal, and many of the same characters appear across the two, most notably Charles Beauregard and Geneviève Dieudonné.

• The Diogenes Club was featured in the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel All-Consuming Fire, a Doctor Who/Sherlock Holmes crossover novel, which also refers to Newman's character Beauregard. An upcoming follow-up to this, in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield series of audio adventures, is The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel.

• In 2011, The Diogenes Club was featured in the Facebook/MySpace game Nightfall: Bloodlines as a secret section of the British Secret Service, formally titled "Her Majesty's Secret Service, Occult Branch".

• Also in 2011, the club was mentioned in Guy Ritchie's movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, when Watson made a deduction about Mycroft prior to the stag party. It was named again when Sherlock Holmes reveals where he ordered Watson to send the telegram under Moriarty's torture.

• In the BBC TV series Sherlock episode "The Reichenbach Fall", the Diogenes Club is shown; Watson goes there, desperate to see Mycroft Holmes, gets into trouble for talking, and is briskly and not too gently escorted to the Stranger's Room by two muffle-shoed bouncers who hold a cloth pad to his mouth to prevent further noise.

• In Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, specifically The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, it is stated that the real Diogenes Club was the Athenaeum Club, but that Arthur Conan Doyle changed the name for his stories.

• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal used to sell a "Diogenes Club: better living through omniscience" T-shirt, though it has since been discontinued.

• The Diogenes Club is seen on a banner at the end of episode of the British show My Family, Series 4, Episode 9 Sitting Targets. The character Michael wins first place for convincing his father to tell his mother that he believed in flying saucers.

The club also appears in Nicholas Meyer's novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier graphic novel, the computer game Sherlock Holmes - Case of the Rose Tattoo, the Dark Horse Comics Predator: Nemesis comic, and in the short story "Closing Time" from Neil Gaiman's collection of short fiction Fragile Things. It is also featured in the Japanese manga Embalming -The Another Tale of Frankenstein-, where one of the club's founder's uses the alias "Mike Roft", a play on Mycroft, and remarks that "if you are looking for someone, my younger brother is quite good at that type of thing".