Editing The Final Problem (section)

===Radio===
"The Final Problem" was loosely adapted for multiple episodes of the American radio series ''[[The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (radio series)|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'' starring [[Richard Gordon (actor)|Richard Gordon]] as Sherlock Holmes and Leigh Lovell as Dr. Watson, including episodes titled "Murder in the Waxworks" (March 1932),<ref>Dickerson (2019), p. 41.</ref> "The Adventure of the Ace of Spades" (May 1932),<ref>Dickerson (2019), p. 42.</ref> and "Murder by Proxy" (January 1933).<ref>Dickerson (2019), p. 50.</ref>

The story was later adapted for radio by John Kier Cross; it was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1954 and starred [[John Gielgud]] as Holmes and [[Ralph Richardson]] as Dr. Watson, with [[Orson Welles]] as Professor Moriarty.<ref>{{cite book |last=De Waal |first=Ronald Burt |title=The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes |year=1974 |publisher=Bramhall House |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldbibliograph00dewa/page/384 384] |isbn=0-517-217597 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldbibliograph00dewa|url-access=registration}}</ref> The production was also broadcast on [[NBC]] radio on 17 April 1955.<ref>Dickerson (2019), p. 287.</ref>

[[Felix Felton]] adapted the story as a radio adaptation which aired on the [[BBC Home Service]] in March 1955 as part of the [[Sherlock Holmes (1952 radio series)|1952–1969 radio series]] starring [[Carleton Hobbs]] as Holmes and [[Norman Shelley]] as Watson, with [[Ralph Truman]] as Moriarty.<ref>{{cite book |last=De Waal |first=Ronald Burt |title=The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes |year=1974 |publisher=Bramhall House |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldbibliograph00dewa/page/385 385] |isbn=0-517-217597 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldbibliograph00dewa|url-access=registration}}</ref> Another dramatisation of the story adapted by Felton aired on the BBC Home Service in November 1957, again starring Hobbs and Shelley, with Felton playing Moriarty.<ref>{{cite book |last=De Waal |first=Ronald Burt |title=The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes |year=1974 |publisher=Bramhall House |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldbibliograph00dewa/page/386 386] |isbn=0-517-217597 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldbibliograph00dewa|url-access=registration}}</ref> Hobbs and Shelley also starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1967 [[BBC Light Programme]] adaptation of the story which was adapted by [[Michael Hardwick]].<ref>{{cite book |last=De Waal |first=Ronald Burt |title=The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes |year=1974 |publisher=Bramhall House |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldbibliograph00dewa/page/392 392] |isbn=0-517-217597 |url=https://archive.org/details/worldbibliograph00dewa|url-access=registration}}</ref>

"The Final Problem" was dramatized for [[BBC Radio 4]] in 1992 by [[Bert Coules]] as part of the [[Sherlock Holmes (1989 radio series)|1989–1998 radio series]] starring [[Clive Merrison]] as Holmes and [[Michael Williams (actor)|Michael Williams]] as Watson. It featured [[Michael Pennington]] as Professor Moriarty, [[Frederick Treves (actor)|Frederick Treves]] as Colonel Moran, [[Sean Arnold]] as Inspector Patterson, [[Terence Edmond]] as Steiler, [[Richard Pearce (British actor)|Richard Pearce]] as Jenkinson, and [[Norman Jones (actor)|Norman Jones]] as Sir George.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://merrisonholmes.com/memoirs.php
|title=The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
|access-date=12 December 2016
|website=The BBC complete audio Sherlock Holmes 
|author=Bert Coules}}</ref>

An episode of ''[[The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]]'', a series on the American radio show ''[[Imagination Theatre]]'', combined "The Final Problem" with the events of "[[The Adventure of the Empty House|The Empty House]]". The episode, titled "The Return of Sherlock Holmes", aired in 2009, and starred [[John Patrick Lowrie]] as Holmes and Lawrence Albert as Watson.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.old-time.com/otrlogs2/classicsh_sw.log.pdf |website=Old-Time Radio |title=The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Broadcast Log |last=Wright |first=Stewart |date=30 April 2019 |access-date=18 June 2020}}</ref>