Ernie's Incredible Illucinations: Adaptations In Other Media

Radio (1974)

Broadcast: 25b January 1974
Time: 11.20am
Channel: BBC Radio 4 VHF
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. From this, it can be assumed the play was recorded for radio and broadcast during this weekly educational slot, however no other details have been found to confirm this. Alan Ayckbourn's Archivist believes there is enough evidence to suggest a radio adaptation was broadcast but which has subsequently been lost alongside most of the details regarding it.

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.