Film and Television
The story has been turned into several films.
- Three Men in a Boat, a 1920 film with Lionelle Howard as J., H. Manning Haynes as Harris and Johnny Butt as George.
- Three Men in a Boat a 1933 film with William Austin, Edmund Breon, and Billy Milton
- Three Men in a Boat a 1956 film with David Tomlinson as J., Jimmy Edwards as Harris and Laurence Harvey as George.
- Drei Mann in einem Boot, a 1961 German film is very loosely based on the book.
- In 1975, the BBC produced a version for television adapted by Tom Stoppard, with Tim Curry as J., Michael Palin as Harris, and Stephen Moore as George.
- Troye v lodke, ne schitaya sobaki (Russian: Трое в лодке, не считая собаки), Three in a boat, not including the dog, a 1979, musical comedy filmed by Soviet television, with Andrei Mironov as J., Aleksandr Shirvindt as Harris and Mikhail Derzhavin as George.
An episode of the Victorian detective show Cribb is based on the book.
The BBC made a 1962 musical adaptation for radio, starring Kenneth Horne, Leslie Phillips and Hubert Gregg.
In 2005 the comedians Griff Rhys Jones, Dara Ó Briain, and Rory McGrath embarked on a recreation of the novel for what was to become a regular yearly BBC TV series, Three Men in a Boat. After their first expedition along the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford, recreating the original novel, the trio embarked on a trip from London to the Isle of Wight in Jones's yacht where they would race her against her sister yacht. The following year Three Men in More Than One Boat saw the three borrowing, stealing and hitchhiking on numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly. For their 2009 adventure, the trio take to the waterways of Ireland, making their way from Dublin to Limerick with Dara's Greyhound Snip Nua, and for 2010 it's Three Men Go To Scotland.
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