<Li> The 1944 film The Spider Woman is based on several Holmes stories, among them "The Speckled Band ." </Li> <Ul> <Li> A half - hour radio adaptation starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce was broadcast as an episode of the series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on 12 November 1945, sponsored by Petri Wines . </Li> <Li> A half - hour radio adaptation starring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce was broadcast as an episode of the series Sherlock Holmes on 23 June 1947 . </Li> <Li> A half - hour radio adaptation starring John Stanley and Ian Martin was broadcast as an episode of the series Sherlock Holmes on 19 December 1948 . </Li> <Li> A one - hour radio adaptation was broadcast as an episode of the series CBS Radio Mystery Theater on 28 June 1977 . </Li> <Li> A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation starring Clive Merrison and Michael Williams was broadcast as part of Bert Coules' complete radio adaptation of the canon on 9 January 1991 . It also featured Susan Wooldridge as Helen Stoner . </Li> <Li> A one - hour adaptation by an Indian radio channel Radio Mirchi, Kolkata starring Mir Afsar Ali in Bengali language and was broadcast as an episode of series Sunday Suspense on 1 May 2016 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> A half - hour radio adaptation starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce was broadcast as an episode of the series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on 12 November 1945, sponsored by Petri Wines . </Li> <Li> A half - hour radio adaptation starring Tom Conway and Nigel Bruce was broadcast as an episode of the series Sherlock Holmes on 23 June 1947 . </Li>

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