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==Television== A dramatisation of "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" was an episode in the series ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'' in 1960. ''Saki: The Improper Stories of H. H. Munro'' (a reference to the ending of "The Story Teller") was an eight-part series produced by [[Philip Mackie]] for [[Granada Television]] in 1962. Actors involved included [[Mark Burns (actor)|Mark Burns]] as Clovis, [[Fenella Fielding]] as Mary Drakmanton, [[Heather Chasen]] as Agnes Huddle, [[Richard Vernon]] as the Major, [[Rosamund Greenwood]] as Veronique and [[Martita Hunt]] as Lady Bastable. [[Jonathan Pryce]] read five short stories, “The Music on the Hill”, “[[Sredni Vashtar]]”, “The Penance”, “[[Gabriel-Ernest]]” and “The Hounds of Fate” as part of the British children's supernatural television series ''[[Spine Chillers]]'' broadcast by [[BBC1]] in 1980. A dramatisation of "The Open Window" was an episode in the series ''[[Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)|Tales of the Unexpected]]'' in 1984. The same story was also adapted as "Ek Khula Hua Darwaza" by [[Shyam Benegal]] as an episode in the 1986 Indian anthology television series ''[[Katha Sagar]]'', which also included the episode "Saboon Ki Tikiya" an adaptation of Munro's "Dusk" by Benegal.<ref>{{cite web |title=Katha Sagar EP 19 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7C4w5QfXQU |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/u7C4w5QfXQU| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|publisher=[[Cinevistaas]] |date=Apr 26, 2012}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ''Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?'', a [[BBC]] TV production in 2007, starring [[Ben Daniels]] and [[Gemma Jones]], showcased three of Saki's short stories, "The Storyteller", "The Lumber Room" and "[[Sredni Vashtar]]".<ref name="BFI">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8c45711a |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224436/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8c45711a |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 November 2016 |title=Who Killed Mrs De Ropp? (2007) |last=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=bfi.org.uk |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |access-date=18 November 2016}}</ref>
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