 Meiser also adapted the story as an episode of "The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson.The episode aired on 6 October 1940.Other dramatisations of the story aired on 7 May 1943 (again with Rathbone and Bruce) and in November 1947 (with John Stanley as Holmes and Alfred Shirley as Watson).