Ernie's Incredible Illucinations: Adaptations In Other Media

Radio (1974)

Broadcast: 25 January 1974
Time: 11.20am
Channel: BBC Radio 4
Duration: 20mins

Production: BBC Radio for Schools

Availability
Not available

Director

Unknown

No other production details are known

Note: Ernie's Incredible Illucinations was reproduced in the teacher's guide for the Spring 1974 series of BBC Radio For Schools' Listening and Writing. This accompanied the radio series and was, essentially, a teacher's guide to the items being broadcast. Sadly, the publication gives no further details about the play and no details have been found from other sources.

Television (1987)

Broadcast: 11 November 1987
Time: 5.10pm
Channel: BBC1
Duration: 25mins

Production: BBC

Availability
Video: Not available
DVD: Not available
Blu-ray: Not available
Digital: Not available

Director
Adaptation
Design
Producer

Character
Ernie
Mum
Dad
Doctor
German Officer
Attendant
Librarian
Intellectual Lady
Tramp

Colin Cant
Chris Barlas
Bill Noble
Paul Stone

Actor
Anthony Flynn
Melanie Kilburn
Tim Barker
John Landry
John Forgeham
Ian Harvey
Mary Lincoln
Marie Collett
Ian MacKenzie

Note: Ernie's Incredible Illucinations was initially broadcast on BBC1 on 11 November 1987; it was then repeated on BBC2 at 11.35am on 15 November 1987 and on BBC1 on 15 June 1989 at 4.35pm. It is believed these are the only times the adaptation has been broadcast on television.

All research for this page is by Simon Murgatroyd and should not be reproduced without permission.