Editing The Famous Five (section)

==Other adaptations==
===Audio dramas===
[[Hodder Headline]] produced in the late 1990s audio dramas in English, which were published on [[audio cassette]] and [[CD]]. All 21 episodes of the original books were dramatised.

The 21 original stories by Enid Blyton have been released in the 1970s as ''Fünf Freunde'' audio dramas in Germany as well. The speakers were the German dubbing artists for Gallagher, Thanisch, Russell and Harris, the leads of the first television series.

For the sequels (not written by Blyton and decidedly more "modern" action-oriented stories) the speakers were replaced by younger ones, because it was felt that they sounded too mature. In addition to the original Blyton books, another 110+ stories have subsequently been released and published as radio plays and more than 30 books different from the radioplays in Germany. They are based on the original characters, but written by various German writers.

===Theatre===
A 1997 musical was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Enid Blyton's birth with the title ''The Famous Five'' and later released on DVD as ''The Famous Five – Smuggler's Gold – The Musical''.
<br/>Principal actors: Elizabeth Marsland, Lyndon Ogbourne, Matthew Johnson, Vicky Taylor, [[Jon Lee (singer)|Jon Lee]], Director: Roz Storey<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000260QVA |title=The Famous Five: The Musical – Smuggler's Gold DVD: Amazon.co.uk: Famous Five: Film & TV |publisher=Amazon.co.uk |access-date=3 October 2013}}</ref>
and also in the five

A brand new musical adaptation was premièred at the Tabard Theatre on 8 December 2009 and played until 10 January 2010.

===Gamebooks===
Two sets of [[gamebook]]s in a ''[[Choose Your Own Adventure]]'' style have been published. These books involve reading small sections of print and being given two or more options to follow, with a different page number for each option. The first series of these, written by [[Stephen Thraves]], featured stories loosely based on the original books. They were issued in plastic wallets with accessories such as maps, dice and codebooks. The gamebooks were titled as follows:

#''The Wreckers' Tower Game, based on Five Go Down to the Sea''
#''The Haunted Railway Game, based on Five Go Off to Camp''
#''The Whispering Island Game, based on Five Have a Mystery to Solve''
#''The Sinister Lake Game, based on Five On a Hike Together''
#''The Wailing Lighthouse Game, based on Five Go to Demon's Rocks''
#''The Secret Airfield Game, based on Five Go to Billycock Hill''
#''The Shuddering Mountain Game, based on Five Get into a Fix''
#''The Missing Scientist Game, based on Five Have a Wonderful Time''

The second series, written by [[Mary Danby]], was entitled "The Famous Five and You".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamebooks.org/show_series.php?id=147 |title=The Famous Five and You |publisher=Gamebooks.org |access-date=3 October 2013}}</ref> These consisted of abridged versions of the original text, with additional text for the alternative story routes. The books in this series were based on the first six original Famous Five books:

#''The Famous Five and You Search for Treasure!''
#''The Famous Five and You Find Adventure!''
#''The Famous Five and You Run Away!''
#''The Famous Five and You Search for Smugglers!''
#''The Famous Five and You Take Off!''
#''The Famous Five and You Underground!''

===Comics===
A weekly comic strip based on the 1978 television series was published in ''[[Look-in]]'' magazine from 1978 to 1980.

Six [[comic album]]s drawn by Bernard Dufossé and scripted by Serge Rosenzweig and Rafael Carlo Marcello were released in France between 1982 and 1986, under the title ''Le Club des Cinq''. Most of comic books in the series are based on Famous Five books created by [[Claude Voilier]]. Books were released by [[Hachette Livre]]. The first three of these volumes have also been released in English, under the name ''Famous Five''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurocomics.info/famous_five.html |title=Euro Comics in English: The Famous Five by Rosenzweig and Dufosse |publisher=Eurocomics.info |date=28 June 2008 |access-date=3 October 2013}}</ref> The titles included "Famous Five and the Golden Galleon" (which featured a sunken ship that was laden with gold with the Five fending off villains seeking to make off with the gold, "Famous Five and the Treasure of the Templars", where it transpires that Kirrin Castle is actually a Templar Castle that houses their hidden treasure which the Five ultimately secure with the help of members of the order, and "Famous Five and the Inca God" which was set in an antiquities museum and dealt with the theft of an Incan fetish.

Beginning in September 1985 a series of monthly Comic Magazine titles ''Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine'' were published. Each issue published a full length illustrative comic book story adapted from Famous 5 Novels. The series came to end in the 1990s.