This story was adapted for American television and aired on a ghost anthology series called "Great Ghost Tales" on August 24, 1961. "Sredni Vashtar" was the basis of the 1979 horror film "The Orphan", also known as "Friday the 13th: The Orphan", by the director John Ballard. In 1980 it was adapted for "Spine Chillers". In 1981, the short film "Sredni Vashtar" by British director Andrew Birkin won a BAFTA award and was nominated for an Oscar. In 2003 Angela M. Murray produced a version of the story in the "Tartan Shorts" series for the BBC, set in Scotland and including shadow puppetry. "Sredni Vashtar" was further adapted with two other Saki stories for a 2007 broadcast on BBC4 titled "Who Killed Mrs De Ropp?"