and Michael Williams as Watson. It featured Stephen Thorne as Inspector Lestrade, George Cole as Josiah Amberley, and Natasha Pyne as Mrs Amberley. After the death (natural) of Holmes, in this version, Dr. Watson is implied to have retired and left Baker Street unceremoniously immediately afterwards, feeling that he has lost a step and that it is "time for the country, and for solitude, and for thought, and for my bees." In 2009, the story was adapted for radio by M. J. Elliott as an episode of The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a series on the American radio show Imagination Theatre, with John Patrick Lowrie as Holmes and Lawrence Albert as Watson. Television The story was adapted as an episode of the 1965 BBC television series Sherlock Holmes starring Douglas Wilmer as Holmes, Nigel Stock as Watson and Maurice Denham as Josiah Amberley. The only difference is that Inspector Mackinnon is replaced by Inspector Lestrade (Peter Madden). References Notes Sources External links Retired Colourman, The Adventure of the 1926 short stories Works originally published in Liberty (general interest magazine)