Spanish Steps include the song "Spanish Steps of Rome" as a bonus track. The song describes a "femme fatale" romance that takes place on and around the Spanish Steps. In an episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" which aired on October 2, 2000, Ray, Debra, Frank, and Marie climb the Spanish Steps during a family vacation in Rome. An episode of the anime series "Gunslinger Girl", entitled "Gelato (Ice Cream)," which first aired in 2003, features the protagonist by the Spanish Steps having her "reward" of ice cream after having completed a successful raid. In 2005, American rock band Of A Revolution released
The 39 Steps (2008 film) was "more of a template for me than any version of "The 39 Steps"". Explaining why he took on the part, he said to Tim Oglethorpe of the "Daily Record": Part of the appeal was the cars, I'm a bit of a buff ... And I said – jokingly, of course – that I wouldn't be in "The 39 Steps" unless the action included the famous chase scene in which Hannay is pursued by a biplane. I've always wanted to be chased by a plane like Cary Grant in the movie "North by Northwest" and I was just delighted when