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Other versions
Many other versions of the novel made it to stage and (especially) screen, see here. This 1937 version is the most enduring, and is notable for its effect on other works, including science fiction and television. Many works that feature a political decoy can be linked to The Prisoner of Zenda, and this theme has been well-used in cinema. What follows is a short list of those homages with a clear debt to the 1937 film. See here for a longer list of those works with a more tenuous connection.


 * Colman, Smith and Fairbanks reprised their roles for a 1939 episode of Lux Radio Theatre, with Colman's wife Benita Hume playing Princess Flavia.


 * The 1952 film was virtually a shot-by-shot remake of the 1937 one. It used the same shooting script, dialogue, and film score. A comparison of the two films reveals that settings and camera angles, in most cases, are the same. It was, however, made in Technicolor.


 * The 1965 comedy film The Great Race included an extended Zenda-like subplot, including a climactic fencing scene between Tony Curtis and Ross Martin. Curtis swims the moat, scales the wall, and despatches the guards, activities that Ronald Colman only talks about in the 1937 version of The Prisoner of Zenda.


 * Two episodes of the spoof spy television series Get Smart, "The King Lives?" and "To *Sire With Love, Parts 1 and 2", parodied the 1937 movie version, with Don Adams affecting a Ronald Coleman-esque voice.


 * The Prisoner of Zenda, Inc., a 1996 made-for-television version, is set in the contemporary United States and revolves around a high school boy who is the heir to a large corporation. The writer, Rodman Gregg, was inspired by the 1937 film version. It stars Jonathan Jackson, Richard Lee Jackson, William Shatner, Don S. Davis, Jay Brazeau and Katharine Isabelle.


 * Doctor Who episode "The Androids of Tara" (1978) had as a working title "The Androids of Zenda" and used a similar plot and setting. It featured Tom Baker as the Doctor and Mary Tamm in four roles: Romana and Princess Strella, and android doubles of each. The 1980 novelisation was by Terrance Dicks, who was script-editor on the 1984 BBC serialisation of Zenda.