This page lists the many, many adaptations of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and works derived from it.
Original work:
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), the original novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Adaptations & derivative works:
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Audio Plays
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932): A 52-part radio adaptation which expanded considerably on the novel by following Jekyll's life from childhood until death. Jekyll is younger than in the book, Hyde's evil emerged in him when he was a child, and romance was also added.
Comic Books
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (1999-2003): A comic by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill that features Jekyll/Hyde as a prominent member of the titular League in the first two volumes and as expies of Bruce Banner and the Hulk, who were in turn based off Jekyll and Hyde. Notably, Jekyll is depicted as sickly and wasting away (and no longer needs the potion to transform), while Hyde is depicted as a hulking, apelike monstrosity who is nonetheless eloquent, cultured and quick-thinking. The pair can communicate: Jekyll sees Hyde in mirrors, and Hyde is omnipresent in his subconscious. Hyde's powers of perception are not usable by Jekyll unless the former advises the latter. The comic depicts Hyde as a huge mutant, which Hyde himself explain: Originally, as in the book, Jekyll was a strapping man and Hyde "practically a dwarf", but when separated into distinct individuals for prolonged periods, Jekyll grows weak and frail without Hyde's passion, while Hyde grew in power without Jekyll's morals to limit him.
- Monster War (2005): Mr. Hyde is one of the villains of the story.
- The Strange Case of Harleen and Harley (2024): A DC Comics YA graphic novel written by Melissa Marr and illustrated by Jenn St-Onge heavily inspired by the novel. It involves Harleen Quinzel engaging in an experimental drug trial that creates an alternate, more outgoing and anarchic personality for her who goes by "Harley Quinn".
Film — Animated
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Burbank Films) (1986): An animated adaptation by Burbank Films Australia, notable for being the only major animated adaptation of the work.
- The Pagemaster (1994): Jekyll and Hyde appear briefly in the film, with Hyde becoming the main villain of one of the video game tie-ins.
- Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004): Prequel of the movie Van Helsing that fleshes out his backstory, with Jekyll having the hots for Queen Victoria of England and harvesting essence from young women to make her a temporary youth potion.
Film — Live-Action
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908): A short silent adaptation directed by Otis Turner, produced by William N. Selig, and starring Hobart Bosworth, and Betty Harte in her film debut. The screenplay was adapted by George F. Fish and Luella Forepaugh based on their own 1897 stage play. Currently believed to be lost.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920): Starring John Barrymore.
- The Janus Head (1920): A silent German film version directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Conrad Veidt. It changed the characters' names to Dr. Warren and Mr. O'Connor to preserve the twist. Bela Lugosi co-starred as the butler. It is also apparently lost forever due to legal issues, but if the production notes are to be believed, it featured the first moving camera in cinema history.
- Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde (Wikipedia article
), a 1926 spoof starring Stan Laurel a year before his legendary teaming up with Oliver Hardy. Available at the Internet Archive here.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931): Starring Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941): A remake of the 1931 film, starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner.
- The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960): An adaptation directed by Terence Fisher that plays around with the formula. Jekyll is hirsute, sloppily dressed mannerless and abrasive, while Hyde is handsome and debonair. Jekyll is already married, but his obsession with his work leads his wife to cheat on him with their best friend. Hyde decides to frame Jekyll for 'their' crimes to force his hand and let Hyde remain in control forever.
- The Nutty Professor (1963): A comedic take on the concept starring Jerry Lewis, wherein a nerdy scientist morphs into a super-cool ladies' man.
- Docteur Jekyll et les femmes (1971): A French-West German co-production directed by Walerian Borowczyk and starring Udo Kier. In this version, the plot takes place over a single night of mayhem.
- Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971): A Hammer Horror film that integrates a Gender Bender concept into the mix.
- I, Monster (1971): The feature directorial debut of Stephen Weeks, produced by Amicus Productions, this adaptation keeps the original plot but changed the names of Jekyll and Hyde in an attempt to preserve the twist.
- The Adult Version of Jekyll and Hide (1972): A soft-core pornographic film integrates a Gender Bender concept into the mix.
- Horror High (1973): An adaptation directed by Larry N. Stouffer, starring Pat Cardi in the Jekyll and Hyde role, and taking place in a contemporary Texas high-school. It recasts Jekyll as a nerdy high-school student who uses a newly-invented drug of his to get revenge on his cruel teachers.
- Dr Black and Mr Hyde (1976): A Blaxploitation flick made to cash in on the Blaxploitation horror craze that began with Blacula.
- Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980): A comedy/horror film with Oliver Reed that follows the Nutty Professor formula: the kindly Heckyl is horribly ugly while his violent alter-ego is good-looking.
- Dr. Jekyll & Ms. Hyde (1995): A comedy film starring Tim Daly, Sean Young and Lysette Anthony, in which a descendant of Dr. Jekyll creates a variant of his ancestor's potion that turns him into a woman.
- Mary Reilly (1996): A film adaptation of the 1990 novel of the same name, starring John Malkovich and Julia Roberts.
- The Nutty Professor (1996): A remake of the 1963 film starring Eddie Murphy.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (A'yoy) (1999): A surreal comedic adaptation from Poland.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003): A film adaptation of the comic of the same name, featuring Jekyll/Hyde as a member of the titular League, played by Jason Flemyng.
- Van Helsing (2004): Mr Hyde briefly appears as an opponent for Van Helsing at the beginning, who fights him in Notre Dame Cathedral. Hyde is an ape-like monster and turns back into Jekyll on his death, unlike in the original story.
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006): A direct-to-video version starring Tony Todd. Unlike most adaptations, it tries to remain close to the novel by giving the impression that Jekyll and Hyde are two different people until about two-thirds of the way into the movie. It somewhat deviates from novel upon the reveal that Mr. Hyde is a mutant gorilla-monster created by nanomachines. It also features Adaptational Diversity: with Todd, who is black, in the dual role, and Utterson gender-flipped into a woman.
- Jekyll + Hyde (2006): A very loose direct-to-video adaptation starring Bryan Fisher that uses the narrative as a metaphor for drug abuse.
- The Mummy (2017): Russell Crowe plays both roles in this film, and was intended to continue the part in the aborted Dark Universe, the shared universe of the Universal Horror films. This is in spite of the story not having been part of the original Universal Horror film series, as the two contemporary films mentioned above were made by Paramount and MGM, respectively.
- Doctor Jekyll (2023): A film adaptation directed by Joe Stephenson, written by Dan Kelly-Mulhern, and starring Suzy Eddie Izzard as the title character (the granddaughter of Henry Jekyll).
Literature
- The Untold Sequel of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1890): A re-telling of the story by Frances H. Little, based on the idea that Edward Hyde was an actual person, a former actor whom Jekyll had met in America and brought to London, and not the alter ego of Henry Jekyll.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (1979): A novel which sees Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson being hired by Utterson to investigate Jekyll's connection to Hyde.
- The Jekyll Legacy (1990): A novel by Robert Bloch and Andre Norton in which Hester Lane, a reporter from Canada, discovers that she is Jekyll's niece and heir. However, someone is continuing Jekyll's experiments. The novel takes an even more sinister turn as Jekyll's butler Poole and Utterson are bludgeoned to death.
- Mary Reilly (1990): A novel by Valerie Martin that tells the story from the viewpoint of a maid in Jekyll's household, named Mary Reilly in this novel.
- Jacqueline Hyde (1996): A novel by Robert Swindells that concerns the protagonist's struggle with her 'Hyde' after smelling a bottle, the contents of which releases her bad side.
- Jekyll and Heidi (1999): The fourteenth book in the Goosebumps Series 2000 series.
- The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mademoiselle Odile (2012): A YA novel by James Reese that features a young Cagot witch named Odile Ricau who brews a salt potion to save her brother but accidentally lets it fall into the hands of a young Dr. Jekyll, who uses the salts and potion to change into Mister Hyde for the first time. Serves as an origin story for Jekyll and Hyde and as a prequel to the story.
- Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver (2013): Light novel spin-off where Jekyll and Hyde are summoned as a Berserker Servant with Hyde as the dominant personality. In his Hyde form, he resembles a werewolf and is completely uncontrollable; his Jekyll form is a mild-mannered man who ironically developed the serum because he wanted to be a hero.
- Hyde (2014): A novel by Daniel Levine. Told from Hyde's point of view, it posits that if Jekyll wasn't wholly good, who's to say that Hyde is wholly evil? It takes Jekyll's musings on man being more than two, unexplained occurrences and glossed-over details from the novel, and attempts to tie it all together.
- Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not (2019): Appear in this anthology in the story The Sign of Two: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Jekyll.
- Jekyll and Hyde: Resurrection (2021): A novel by Alexander Bayliss that was released on 5 January to commemorate the 135th anniversary of the publication of the original. It is a contemporary urban thriller in which a modern-day descendant of Dr. Jekyll discovers his ancestor's old formula.
- My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix (2023): A retelling of the story by Kalynn Bayron in which the characters are black university students. It also deals with themes of homosexuality during the time period of the novel. Henry Jekyll becomes Hyde via a potion created by his father Dr. Jekyll in order to remove his feelings for Gabriel.
Live-Action TV
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968): A Made-for-TV Movie adaptation starring Jack Palance. This version took out Jekyll having a fiancée, leaving Hyde with Gwyn, a prostitute. This version is also notable for its two-hour length, and sticks close to the book in most respects, including Jekyll changing into Hyde upon death.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973): A made-for-TV musical adaptation starring Kirk Douglas in the title roles. Notable for Hyde having an accomplice in Fred Smudge and not killing his love interest, Annie, but breaking her mind so badly she couldn't leave if she wanted.
- Family Matters (1993-1998): The TV sitcom had The Jinx Steve Urkel develop a potion which turns him into the Born Lucky "Stefan Urquelle", who would appear on occasion throughout seasons 5 to 9.
- Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde (1995-1998): A British kids' show about a schoolgirl whose science experiment goes wrong and makes her turn into a monster at random times.
- Mixed Breeds (1995): A Wishbone adaptation in which the titular dog plays Utterson.
- Jekyll (2006): A modern-day TV miniseries involving a descendant of the pair, written by Steven Moffat. Also notable for an example of using the 'Jee-kyll' pronunciation, but only in the Victorian flashbacks.
- Jekyll and Hyde (2015): An ITV series that follows Robert Jekyll, grandson of the Henry Jekyll from the novel, and is set in the 1930s. It is a superhero-type show in the vein of X-Men, and as such, Hyde is just one of many supernatural creatures targeted by a sinister Creature-Hunter Organization.
- Once Upon a Time (2016): Jekyll and Hyde appear in seasons 5 and 6 of . It's ultimately revealed that Hyde isn't actually evil but simply driven to act on every emotion, while Jekyll is far worse, performing evil actions despite being able to control himself.
- Penny Dreadful (2016): Season three of the Showtime series introduces Doctor Jekyll as a young half-Indian, half-British chemist, who went to medical school with Victor Frankenstein.
Tabletop Games
- Unmatched: Jekyll and Hyde are a combatant in the Victorian horror expansion.
Theatre
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1887): The first stage adaptation, created by Richard Mansfield and Thomas Russell Sullivan. It was this play which introduced the idea of dual love interests for Jekyll/Hyde, and was highly successful after opening in America and moving to London. Infamously, the play was shut down in 1888 after Mansfield (who played Jekyll and Hyde) was accused by an audience member of being Jack the Ripper.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Or a Mis-Spent Life (1897): A four-act play written by Luella Forepaugh and George F. Fish.
- Jekyll & Hyde (1990): A musical stage adaptation written by Broadway veterans Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse, with music by Frank Wildhorn, a book by Leslie Bricusse and lyrics by all of them.
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1999): A play by Noah Smith which had Jekyll's maid and butler act as a Greek Chorus and Jekyll battling with his hypocrisy as Hyde racked up a body count. Hyde plans to inject Utterson with the same chemical used to create himself, this giving Enfield, Utterson, and Lanyon larger roles. Jekyll's love interests were Enfield's aspiring scientist fiancée, Helen, and the brainy prostitute Cybel.
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2008): A play by Jeffrey Hatcher which has Hyde played by multiple actors and inverts the usual good-evil dynamic near the end, giving Hyde a measure of sympathy and making Jekyll cold and ruthless. This version takes out Jekyll's fiancée, leaving only Elizabeth, a prostitute who loved Hyde unconditionally.
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (2012): A theater play by Nick Lane where Jekyll is physically weak but good and Hyde is powerful and strong but evil. Also introduces Eleanor O'Donnell, a celebrated, smart singer who urges on Jekyll's experiment despite knowing its potential outcome.
Video Games
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES) (1988): A side-scrolling action video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that is infamously hailed as one of the worst games of all time and was a catalyst for The Angry Video Game Nerd Youtube series.
- Jekyll and Hyde (2001): An Adventure Game for Windows, developed by In Utero and published by Cryo Interactive.
- The Mysterious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2010): A Hidden Object Game for various platforms, developed by Mad Data Games.
- Jekyll and Hyde (2010): An Adventure Game for Windows, developed by Pixelcage GmbH.
- Fate/Grand Order (2015): Jekyll and Hyde are summoned as an Assassin Servant with Jekyll as the dominant personality. His Jekyll form is a meek man who reluctantly fights with a knife. His Hyde form, though humanoid and able to communicate, fights like a Berserker.
- Guard Me, Sherlock (2018): A Dating Sim created by game company NTT Solmare that has a version of Jekyll and Hyde; however, in this adaptation they are not the same person and are instead brothers, Jekyll being the elder, and unlike many other adaptations, Hyde is not depicted as monstrous and instead appears as a normal brown-haired, blue-eyed male with a scar across his face.
Visual Novels
- Jekyll & Hyde (MazM) (2017): A stylized adaptation by MazM, which follows and expands upon the original story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, telling it from the perspectives of each character involved.
Webcomics
- The Glass Scientists (2015): Jekyll runs a society for mad scientists and works hard to improve their public image while keeping his own double life a secret. This story focuses more on how Jekyll's own self-hatred and mental issues played a key role in Hyde's creation.
- MK's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2017-2021): A web comic which is both a retelling of the book and a bit of the play. In this version, Hyde is not all bad while not everything Jekyll does can be considered as entirely good. It also explores how good and bad are not cut-and-dry, and how social class can influence how good deeds are celebrated and bad deeds are overlooked.
- The Search For Henry Jekyll (2013-2025): A web comic which takes inspiration from the book and adaptations to recount Utterson's investigation into Jekyll and Hyde. Things become more complicated when Hyde injects Dr. Lanyon with the serum, creating a villainous rival.
Web Video
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Game - The Movie (2015): A fake-trailer and Short Film written and directed by James Rolfe (better known as The Angry Video Game Nerd) as an adaptation of the infamous 1988 Nintendo Entertainment System adaptation.
Western Animation
- Looney Tunes
- Doctor Jerkyll's Hide (1954): A sequel to Tree for Two, where Sylvester ingests the potion and attacks the bulldog Spike.
- "Hyde and Hare" (1955): Bugs Bunny is taken in by Jeckyll, then runs afoul of his alterego Hyde.
- Hyde and Go Tweet (1960): Tweety ingests Dr. Jekyll's potion and turns into a gigantic canary monster to get even on Sylvester.
- Nowhere to Hyde (1970): An episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! where the ghost of Mr. Hyde commits a string of jewel robberies, and the prime suspect is Dr. Jekyll (the descendant of Dr. Jekyll from the novel) who fears that he began transforming into the ghost after experimenting with a new vitamin formula.
