"The Return Match" is a short story by E. W. Hornung, and features the gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, and his companion and biographer, Bunny Manders.

Raffles acknowledges to Bunny that Crawshay is blackmailing them, but is genuinely excited to help the daring prison escapee get away.

Upon questioning by Raffles, a porter explains that police have come because a man of Crawshay's description was seen in the Albany earlier.

Inside, they find Raffles himself, lying on the floor on his back, and wounded by a poker in the forehead.

[4] The drama features Jeremy Clyde as Raffles and Michael Cochrane as Bunny.

The first part of the episode is based on the events of "Wilful Murder", which then leads into the plot of "The Return Match."

The episode follows much of the original plot, with some differences: An adaptation of "The Return Match" aired in 2010 as part of Raffles, the Gentleman Thief, a series on the American radio show Imagination Theatre.