A number of adaptations for other media of "The Deep Blue Sea" have been made. The first, for BBC Television, was broadcast live on 17 and 21 January 1954 in the "Sunday Night Theatre" strand, with Kenneth More as Freddie, and Googie Withers as Hester. Also, Googie toured Australia and New Zealand in a production presented by JC Williamson Theatres. A further BBC version, in the "Play of the Month" series was transmitted on 17 March 1974. Directed by Rudolph Cartier, it starred Peter Egan (Freddie), and Virginia McKenna (Hester).