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== Anime & Manga ==

* A great number of [[Manga]] and [[Light Novels]] have Drama CDs released before, during and after their animated adaptations. Sometimes the voice actors between the Drama CD version and the anime version can change. Many a [[Visual Novel]] also has a Drama CD included, usually as a bonus. This isn't much of a stretch either, since the line between visual novel and audio adaptation is thin.

* The ''[[Slayers]]'' has several set between anime seasons:

** ''Slayers EX (Extra)'' and ''Slayers N>EX'': Set after the first season and second seasons, there are four stories based off of the prequel ''Slayers Special'' novels, but they implement Lina's allies instead of [[Unknown Rival|Naga]]. Naga does appear in ''N>EX'', though.

** A prologue and epilogue for the ''Slayers Premium'' [[Non-Serial Movie]]; the prologue creates an [[Continuity Snarl|issue in continuity]] by setting two seasons five years apart, which supposedly isn't true in-universe.

** Two dramas based off of the fourth and fifth seasons of the anime; there is an epilogue story for the one based on ''Evolution-R.''

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' and ''[[Alternate Continuity|Negima!?]]'' had some drama CDs, which if nothing else, are notable for [[Fandom Nod|actually referencing the fandom's popular]] "KonoSetsu" [[Portmanteau Couple Name]] in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-rNKfXCJ8U one of the tracks.]

** A more recent one is the Ala Rubra Drama CD. Specifically the following:

*** {{spoiler|Reenacting the part where Eishun is the [[Team Chef|Nabe Shogun]] and Rakan defeats him yet again with the same trick.}}

*** {{spoiler|Nagi VS Rakan. From fighting, an endurance race in the hot springs AND bungee jumping.}}

* ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' had a radio play called ''Blind Target'', complete with its own theme songs, which was later adapted into a manga (causing a form of [[Adaptation Displacement]] in America).

* Both the manga and anime versions of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' spawned drama CDs. The anime version is particularly notable for being a [[High School AU]] and allowing the voice actors from the anime to purposefully make fun of their characters by [[Large Ham|being as hammy as possible]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Batman]]'' likewise has had a few stints, albeit brief, ''[[Knightfall]]'' being notably adapted by [[The BBC]].

 

 

* All three original ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies had radio play adaptations broadcast by NPR: ''[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars_(radio) Star Wars]'' in 1981, ''[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back_(radio) The Empire Strikes Back]'' in 1983, and ''[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi_(radio) Return of the Jedi]'' in 1996. The first one is ''very'' famous for including a whole lot of stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor of the original movie, including early scenes on Alderaan with King Organa, a long chat between Biggs Darklighter and Luke that established both their characters, and a [[Nightmare Fuel|greatly expanded]] interrogation scene between Vader and Leia.

** As have the following comic book arcs: Tales of the Jedi Knights of the Old Republic, TOTJ Freedon Nadd Rebellion, TOTJ Dark Lords of the Sith, [[Dark Empire]] I, II and Empire's End, Crimson Empire, and the three Dark Forces graphic novels. Oddly enough, they never finished them by releasing the two more Tales of the Jedi arcs featuring Ulic Qel-Droma as well as making Crimson Empire II. [[Dark Empire]] has some script changes.

 

 

== Literature ==

* [[BBC]] Radio has produced lots of adaptations of books, many of them starring well-known actors like Christopher Lee and David Warner.

** All of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories, with full cast and sound effects

** The [[Discworld]] novels ''Guards! Guards!'', ''The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents'', and ''Night Watch'' adapted for radio, with full cast and sound effects

** A number of [[Robert Rankin]] novels, including ''Brightonomicon'' and the ''Brentford Trilogy'', with full cast and sound effects

** Ghost stories by a variety of authors, full casts, sound effects

** [[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' trilogy - although there are actually ''two'' adaptations of this one: a radio adaptation and a full-cast unabridged recording, narrated by Pullman. Both were produced by the [[BBC]].

** The [[Foundation|Foundation Trilogy]], full cast, sound effects

* American publishers don't do this as often, but there have been full-cast recordings of:

** [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''Have Space Suit, Will Travel''

** Many ''[[Star Wars]]'' novels as well, including [[Matt Stover]]'s greatly respected novelization of ''[[Revenge of the Sith]]''. Many of these audio adaptations even include sound effects and music from [[John Williams]]'s scores.

** Quite a few [[Isaac Asimov]] stories

** ''[[World War Z]]'' was adapted with a full cast

* ''[[The Shadow]]'' counts, even though the magazine was inspired by the "narrator" of a mystery radio show. The magazine started in 1931, the radio adaptation in 1937.

** [[Silas Marner]]

** The complete [[Narnia]] series

** [[A Christmas Carol]]

** [[The Screwtape Letters]]

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has a ''lot'' of these.

** Official BBC-produced original radio plays have been produced as far back as 1986's "Slipback".

** [[Big Finish Doctor Who|Officially licensed audio plays]] by [[Big Finish]], featuring the continuing adventures of Doctors Five, Six, Seven, and Eight (and later Four), now number in the hundreds. Quality is generally considered very high, especially for [[Colin Baker]]'s Sixth Doctor.

** An outfit called BBV produced audio plays and series of varying officialness during the Eighties and Nineties: one starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as "The Stranger" and "Miss Brown"; one starring Lalla Ward and John Leeson as "The Mistress" and "K-9"; and one starring Sylvester McCoy and [[Sophie Aldred]] as "The Professor" and "Ace". The first two were official, but the last wasn't--and the BBC stepped in to force some more filing-off of serial numbers.

** BBC Audio has produced several audiobooks featuring the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. They also created three series of Fourth Doctor audio dramas, starring [[Tom Baker]] and Richard Franklin (reprising his role as Third Doctor "companion" Mike Yates).

** ''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' also made the transition from screen to sound.

*** Given that most of ''Yes, Minister'' consisted of verbal repartee, it's surprising that it was on TV ''before'' radio.

 

 

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== Theatre ==

* ''The Moth'', a popular New York true storytelling series, did shows for ten years before releasing the audio as a podcast and then the [[NPR]] show ''The Moth Radio Hour.''

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Trails in The Sky]]'' has a whole bunch of these, focusing on various characters and expanding on them. Even with the games coming to America at last, we're ''quite'' unlikely to see these.

* ''[[Ever 17]]'' has two Drama CDs, ''After You've Gone'' and ''2035'', both being [[Post Script Season|Post Script Seasons.]]

** Likewise, ''[[Yggdra Unison]]'' was given a drama CD, featuring three episodic stories starring some of the more popular characters. The cast has expressed hopes of being able to produce more, although we've heard nothing from them on the subject since.

* The ''[[Freddi Fish]]'' series had a [[Tie-in Novel|book]] titled ''Sing Along with Freddi Fish and her Friends'', which came with an audio cassette of the same name.

 

== Webcomics ==

* [[DMFA]] has an "unofficial" Radio Play [http://dmfa.it-he.org/ here] that has currently produced three episodes covering the story arcs "Warrior for Hire," "Recipe for Disasters," and Part I of "The Return of Dark Pegasus," with Part II in the works as of October 2010.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* The ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' book ''Anoraknophobia'' was adapted for cassette featuring Peter Sallis as Wallace.

 

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