Three Men in a Boat (1979 film) 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. Three friends: J, Harris and George, tired of idleness and wanting to correct their ill health, decide to go on a boat trip along the Thames. Together they take the fox terrier Montmorency. Before their journey, they agree to travel without females. But almost immediately on the road they meet three women going the same way as themselves: Anne, Emily
Three Men in a Boat 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".