Three Men in a Boat 1891, "Three Women in One Boat: A River Sketch" by Constance MacEwen was published. This book relates the journey of three young university women who set out to emulate the river trip in "Three Men in a Boat" in an effort to raise the spirits of one of them, who is about to be expelled from university. To take the place of Montmorency, they bring a cat called Tintoretto. Three Men in a Boat is referenced in the 1956 parody novel on mountaineering, "The Ascent of Rum Doodle", where the head porter Bing is said to spend "much of his
Three Men in a Boat (TV series) 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",