The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero had Christopher Cazenove playing Hannay in a scene from Mr. Orson Welles portrayed Hannay in a radio play of The Thirty-Nine Steps in 1938, as did Glenn Ford in 1948 on Studio One, Herbert Marshall on Suspense in 1952. Powell reprised the role for the ITV series Hannay (1988–1989). Hannay has been portrayed in four film versions of The Thirty Nine Steps respectively, by actors Robert Donat (in the original and most famous film adaptation, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1935), Kenneth More, Robert Powell and Rupert Penry-Jones (in a 2008 BBC production).

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In Combined Forces (1985), a humorous novel by Jack Smithers, Hannay teams up after World War II with the similar heroes 'Sapper' 's Bulldog Drummond and Dornford Yates' Jonah Mansel.

Harris has written The Thirty-One Kings (2017) which purports to be the beginning of a new series called 'Richard Hannay Returns' about his adventures during World War II however the next book in the series, Castle Macnab (2018), is set in the 1920s. Hannay appears in several novels as a major character, including: In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War. Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist John Buchan and further made popular by the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film The 39 Steps (and other later film adaptations), very loosely based on Buchan's 1915 novel of the same name. Christopher Cazenove (BBC TV documentary)

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