Television and Radio Adaptations
- The Owl Service (1969), a British TV series transmitted by Granada Television based on Garner's novel of the same name.
- Elidor was read in installments on a BBC children's radio program in the early 1970s
- Red Shift (BBC, transmitted 17 January 1978); directed by John Mackenzie; part of the BBC's Play for Today series.
- To Kill a King (1980), part of the BBC series of plays on supernatural themes, Leap in the Dark: an atmospheric story about a writer overcoming depression and writer's block. The hero's home appears to be Garner's own house.
- Garner and Don Webb adapted Elidor into a children's television series for the BBC. The series consisted of six half-hour episodes starring Damian Zuk as Roland and Suzanne Shaw as Helen
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