"is happy to get away from his job at the bank. Harris is glad to get away from Mrs. Willis who is pressing him to marry her daughter Clara; and 'J' is more than anxious to take a holiday from his wife, Ethelbertha. George meets three girls, Sophie Clutterhouse and sisters Bluebell and Primrose Porterhouse, who are also taking a ride up the river, and he hopes to see them again. The travellers get into all kinds of complications with the weather, the river, the boat, food, the Hampton Court Maze, tents, rain and locks. They do connect with the"
"Three Men in a Boat (TV series) Three Men in a Boat is a television comedy/documentary series produced by Liberty Bell Productions for BBC Two starring Dara Ó Briain, Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones, first shown on 3 January 2006. In this first rendition, the three participants rowed in a replica wooden skiff from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford. The BBC subsequently commissioned and aired ""Three Men in Another Boat"", ""Three Men in More Than One Boat"", ""Three Men go to Ireland"", ""Three Men go to Scotland""; ""Three Men go to Venice"", and ""Three Men go to New England"","
"of Cape Cod. Broadcast 27 December 2011 – 2.23 million viewers. Broadcast 28 December 2011 – 2.35 million viewers. Three Men in a Boat (TV series) Three Men in a Boat is a television comedy/documentary series produced by Liberty Bell Productions for BBC Two starring Dara Ó Briain, Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones, first shown on 3 January 2006. In this first rendition, the three participants rowed in a replica wooden skiff from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford. The BBC subsequently commissioned and aired ""Three Men in Another Boat"", ""Three Men in More Than One Boat"", ""Three Men go"
"Three Men in a Boat Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about ""Three Men in a"
"""Three Men in a Boat"". Jerome sat down to write ""Three Men in a Boat"" as soon as the couple returned from their honeymoon. In the novel, his wife was replaced by his longtime friends George Wingrave (George) and Carl Hentschel (Harris). This allowed him to create comic (and non-sentimental) situations which were nonetheless intertwined with the history of the Thames region. The book, published in 1889, became an instant success and has never been out of print. Its popularity was such that the number of registered Thames boats went up fifty percent in the year following its publication, and"
"girls again and when things appear to be becoming interesting for the men, Mrs. Willis and her daughter and Ethelbertha show up and things become even more interesting. The film was the 12th most popular movie at the British box office in 1957. Three Men in a Boat (1956 film) Three Men in a Boat is a 1956 British CinemaScope colour comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, Shirley Eaton and David Tomlinson. It is based on the 1889 novel ""Three Men in a Boat"" by Jerome K. Jerome. The film received mixed reviews, but"
"Two and a Half Men in a Boat Two and a Half Men in a Boat is a 1993 travelogue book written by English novelist, screenwriter and playwright Nigel Williams describing his travel on the Thames inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's book Three Men in a Boat. The book has been described as""a whimsical account of a lazy trip up the Thames with friends"" but was written to pay a tax bill of 28,000 pounds. Like Jerome, Williams travels in a skiff with his dog Badger and two friends, BBC executive Alan (Alan Yentob) and professional explorer John Paul, called"
"Jerome K. Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue ""Three Men in a Boat"" (1889). Other works include the essay collections ""Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"" (1886) and ""Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow""; ""Three Men on the Bummel"", a sequel to ""Three Men in a Boat"", and several other novels. Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England. He was the fourth child of Marguerite Jones and Jerome Clapp (who later renamed himself Jerome Clapp Jerome), an ironmonger and lay preacher who dabbled"
"Voyages in Alternate Worlds"", by A.J. Sikes, B.J. Sikes, and Dover Whitecliff (2017). A preview audio version of the first story was made available online. Three Men in a Boat Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point"
"Drei Mann in einem Boot Drei Mann in einem Boot () is a 1961 German / Austrian comedy film directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Walter Giller, Heinz Erhardt, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff and Susanne Cramer. The film is based on the British novel ""Three Men in a Boat"" by Jerome K. Jerome. The film is also known as Drei Mann in einem Boot. Vom Hunde ganz zu schweigen (long West German title). The advertisement salesmen Harry Berg und Jerome, named ""Jo"", Sommer are on holiday at the Bodensee alone. Jo is trying to catch the young girl Grit and Harry wants"
"boot shop, Harris and his wife on the tandem, Harris confronting the hose-pipe, the animal riot in the hill-top restaurant) are as polished and funny (funnier, some would say) as anything in the earlier book."" His analysis is that Hugh Laurie read the book as a ""Book at Bedtime"" for the BBC in 2001. Three Men on the Bummel Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, ""Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of"
"setting of many of his books. He created and voiced the hardboiled detective parody character Guy Noir on his radio show. Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright known for his biting wit. Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue ""Three Men in a Boat"". P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) was one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) was a satirical novelist, best known for his ""Wilt"" series, as well as ""Porterhouse Blue"" and "" Blott on the Landscape"". Alan Coren (1938–2007) could"
"the use of a 1960s pop culture figure as narrator. The show has one human character, The Harbourmaster, and six central tugboat characters, led by the show's namesake, Theodore Tugboat. Other ships, of all sizes, provide a large number of regular and occasional characters along with a few talking structures. Along with all the duties of a real-life harbourmaster, The Harbourmaster is the narrator of the series, and provides voices for the entire cast of characters. He is the only human on the show, and is portrayed in the Canadian and US versions by the late Denny Doherty, formerly of"
"He has made two football DVDs, ""Own Goals and Gaffs – The Premiership"" in 2002 and ""More Own Goals and Gaffs"" in 2003. McGrath also appeared in an episode of the Sooty Show (Time Capsule), as a scuba diver who appeared from anywhere to stop Matthew Corbett and Sooty from burying their time capsule. Since 2006, McGrath has starred in the BBC's ""Three Men in a Boat"" series, alongside Dara Ó Briain and Griff Rhys Jones. The series has included the trio rowing up the River Thames (similar to the 1889 novel also named ""Three Men in a Boat""), sailing"
"Boat"" is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes have been praised as fresh and witty. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, ""as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog"". The trip is"
"and a dog, problems at the Rheinfall), however the main plot is too different to put this as a remake. Drei Mann in einem Boot Drei Mann in einem Boot () is a 1961 German / Austrian comedy film directed by Helmut Weiss and starring Walter Giller, Heinz Erhardt, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff and Susanne Cramer. The film is based on the British novel ""Three Men in a Boat"" by Jerome K. Jerome. The film is also known as Drei Mann in einem Boot. Vom Hunde ganz zu schweigen (long West German title). The advertisement salesmen Harry Berg und Jerome, named ""Jo"","
"the nineteenth century. A 2003 limited edition published by The Flyfisher's Classic Library quickly sold out, and in 2008/9 there was a new Flyfisher's Classic Library edition, as well as a new paperback edition published by Coch-y-Bonddu Books. These editions carry a new introduction by Jon Beer, who retraced the steps of the ""Three in Norway"" over 100 years later. It served as an inspiration for the travelogue ""Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)"", a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the River Thames between Kingston upon Thames and Oxford,"
"Empire theatre conservation project. In 2004, he led a demonstration at the Senate House in Cambridge University for the purpose of saving architecture as a degree in Cambridge. Since 2006, Rhys Jones has starred in the BBC's ""Three Men in a Boat"" series, alongside Dara Ó Briain and Rory McGrath. The series has included the trio rowing the River Thames, as in the 1889 novel, sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing boat race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly. In more recent adventures, the three took to"
"a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Following the overwhelming success of ""Three Men in a Boat"", Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled ""Three Men on the Bummel"" (also known as ""Three Men on Wheels"", 1900). The story begins by introducing George, Harris, Jerome (always referred to as ""J.""), and Jerome's dog, named Montmorency. The men are spending an evening in J.'s room, smoking"
"and Patricia. First, the heroes try to keep their agreement, but then fall in love with these women and the women fall in love back with them. In the finale they are already three couples in love. In the final episode of the film it is understood that Jerome K. Jerome invented his friends and the whole story from loneliness. Three Men in a Boat (1979 film) Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) () is a 1979 Soviet two-part musical-comedy miniseries directed by Naum Birman and based on the eponymous novel by Jerome K. Jerome."
"times in the BBC Radio science / comedy show ""The Infinite Monkey Cage"" which premiered on 30 November 2009 on Radio 4. In 2010, Ó Briain replaced Adrian Chiles as the presenter of """". After five years, he quit following the 2014 series. In 2016, Ó Briain hosted a panel show about video games called ""Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit"". Series 3 began in February 2018. Since 2006, Ó Briain has starred in the BBC's ""Three Men in a Boat"" series, with Griff Rhys Jones and Rory McGrath. The series has included the trio rowing the River Thames, as"
"Three Men on a Horse (film) Three Men on a Horse is a 1936 comedy film adapted from the Broadway play of the same name written by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. A mild-mannered greeting card poet has the uncanny ability to pick winners in horse races. Meek Erwin Trowbridge (Frank McHugh) finally has enough of his sneering brother-in-law, Clarence Dobbins (Paul Harvey), unappreciative boss, greeting card publisher J.G. Carver (Guy Kibbee), and the lack of support of his wife Audrey (Carol Hughes). Erwin goes on a drinking binge and ends up in a hotel bar. When he overhears"
"graphic designer, while working at the BBC. He has described their first meeting by saying ""The day we met, I was semi naked and she was throwing water over me."" The couple have two children, and live between homes in London (previously in Islington, now in a Grade I listed house in London's Fitzrovia in the West End) and Holbrook in Suffolk. Rhys Jones owned ""Undina"", the , fifty year old wooden sailing yacht which was used in ""Three Men in Another Boat""; he spent £500,000 on her restoration and in 2013 stated she was for sale for £195,000, ""probably"
"picnic placed in one footnote spanning several pages. Two and a Half Men in a Boat Two and a Half Men in a Boat is a 1993 travelogue book written by English novelist, screenwriter and playwright Nigel Williams describing his travel on the Thames inspired by Jerome K. Jerome's book Three Men in a Boat. The book has been described as""a whimsical account of a lazy trip up the Thames with friends"" but was written to pay a tax bill of 28,000 pounds. Like Jerome, Williams travels in a skiff with his dog Badger and two friends, BBC executive Alan"
"Houseboat (film) Houseboat is a 1958 American Technicolor romantic comedy VistaVision film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, and Harry Guardino. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original version of ""Yours, Mine and Ours"" (1968). The love theme ""Almost In Your Arms"", sung by Sam Cooke and ""Bing! Bang! Bong!"", sung by Loren, were written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. For several years, Tom Winters (Grant) has been estranged from his wife and their three children, David (Petersen), Elizabeth (Gibson), and Robert (Herbert). The film begins as he returns home from Europe shortly"
"1962 starring Kenneth Horne, Leslie Phillips and Hubert Gregg, a three-episode version in 1984 with Jeremy Nicholas playing all of the characters and a two-part adaptation for ""Classic Serial"" in 2013 with Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Peter Lovesey's Victorian detective novel ""Swing, Swing Together"" (1976), partly based on the book, featured as the second episode of the television series ""Cribb"" (1980). In 2005 the comedians Griff Rhys Jones, Dara Ó Briain, and Rory McGrath embarked on a recreation of the novel for what was to become a regular yearly BBC TV series, ""Three Men in a Boat""."
"Show Boat (novel) Show Boat is a 1926 novel by American author and dramatist Edna Ferber. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the ""Cotton Blossom"", a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi, from the 1880s to the 1920s. The story moves from the Reconstruction-Era river boat to Gilded-Age Chicago to Roaring Twenties New York, and finally returns to the Mississippi River. ""Show Boat"" was adapted as a Broadway musical in 1927 by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Three films followed: a 1929 version that depended"
"host to Griff Rhys Jones, Dara Ó Briain and Rory McGrath, and a dog called Loli, during the filming of ""Three Men in a Boat"" – a film broadcast and commissioned by the BBC as a modern-day reinterpretation of the travelogue by Jerome K Jerome. The restaurant is also listed amongst Britain's 250 Best Restaurants in the Harper's Bazaar 2009 ""Going Out Guide"". The building that houses the restaurant was once a working boathouse and was last used for the ferry in 1967, when the last ferrywoman retired and the service was discontinued. The boathouse retains much of its original"
"The Girl on the Boat The Girl on the Boat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It first appeared in 1921 as a serial in the ""Woman's Home Companion"" in the United States under the title ""Three Men and a Maid"". It was first published as a book in the United States on April 26, 1922, by George H. Doran, New York, and as "" The Girl on the Boat"" in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on June 15, 1922. The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina ""Billie"" Bennett, and the three men are: The"
"Three Men on a Horse Three Men on a Horse is a play by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. The comedy focuses on a man who discovers he has a talent for choosing the winning horse in a race as long as he never places a bet himself. Mild-mannered Erwin Trowbridge, bored with his suburban New Jersey life with his wife and brother-in-law and frustrated by his low-paying job writing greeting card verses, decides to declare his independence by skipping work and spending the day in a local saloon. There he meets two men and a woman who make"
"Three Men on a Horse Three Men on a Horse is a play by George Abbott and John Cecil Holm. The comedy focuses on a man who discovers he has a talent for choosing the winning horse in a race as long as he never places a bet himself. Mild-mannered Erwin Trowbridge, bored with his suburban New Jersey life with his wife and brother-in-law and frustrated by his low-paying job writing greeting card verses, decides to declare his independence by skipping work and spending the day in a local saloon. There he meets two men and a woman who make"
"Men in a Boat"" by Hubert Gregg. This was repeated, after many years in the archives, on BBC Radio 4 extra. His sole film appearance was in ""The Charcoal-Burner's Son"" (1939). He was married to music hall actress Doreen Monte. Fred Yule Frederick Robert Yule (7 October 1893, Norfolk – 11 December 1982, Southend-on-Sea) was an English character actor, comedian and singer, mainly known for his appearances in post-war BBC Radio programmes such as ""ITMA"", ""Ray's a Laugh"", ""Band Waggon"" (1947 era) and ""The Archers"". In ""Ray's a Laugh"" he MAY have been the voice of a female character ""Ivy"","
"to get rid of his intrusive girlfriend Julitschka. When she suddenly appears, Harry and Jo are trying to buy a boat to drive away. They also find a dog and call him ""Sputnik"". Also the art salesman Georg Nolte is trying to have holiday but his wife Carlotta and his daughter Grit are not allowing him it. In a bar he's listining to Harrys and Jo's talk about the boat and asks them to join them, he offers himself as a cook. Both agree and the three of them are calling the trip ""Three Men on a boat, not to"