Dead Ernest

For Dead Ernest, a 1944 mystery novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton, see Dead Ernest (novel).

Dead Ernest is a 1982 UK TV supernatural sitcom set in heaven starring Andrew Sachs in the role of Ernest Springer. It was broadcast on ITV and first aired on the 15th of February 1982 lasting only 7 episodes. It was the first sitcom made by then newly formed Central Television.

Plot

Ernest Springer, a teacher, wins half a million pounds on the football pools, while celebrating in the stands he is killed by a blow between the eyes from a stray champagne bottle cork. He subsequently ascends to heaven. Although the authorities in heaven admit that his death was an administrative error (he had been scheduled to die in his bed in Lyme Regis in 2007), as his kidneys have already been donated to a bus conductor he cannot go back down to earth.

External links

• Dead Ernest at IMDb