Other works

(1958) Book: "Clovek by neveril svým ocím" ("One wouldn't believe one's eyes"). Prague: Ceskoslovenský spisovatel, Czechoslovakia.

(1959) Author of the stage Play: "Jednicky má papousek" ("The Parrot Has All the A's"). Prague, Na Zábradlí Theatre, Czechoslovakia Later adapted for TV as Jednicky má papousek (1979).

(1962) Co-writer of the stage play "Nejlepsi rocky paní Hermanové" ("The Best Rocks of Mrs. Herman") (with Václav Havel). Prague, Na Zábradlí Theatre, Czechoslovakia.

(1962) Book: "Zivocichopis" ("The Livestock"). Prague, Ceskoslovenský spisovatel, Czechoslovakia.

(1963) Book: "Jakub a dve ste dedecku" ("Jacob and his 200 Grandfathers"). Prague, SNDK, Czechoslovakia.

(1964) Book: "Zirafa, nebo tulipán?" ("A giraffe or a tulip?"). Prague, Mladá fronta, Czechoslovakia.

(1964) Stage play: "Král Ubu" ("Ubu the King") (based on several stage plays by Alfred Jarry). Prague, Na Zábradlí Theatre, Czechoslovakia. Recorded for TV as Král Ubu (1968). There was an intention to adapt Macourek's version of the play into a film with Jan Libícek as Father Ubu and Iva Janzurová as mother Ubu, under the direction of Oldrich Lipský, but it was never materialised. Many years later Macourek wrote another version, directed by F.A. Brabec as Král Ubu (1996).

(1965) Book: "O chlapeckovi, který se stal kredencí" ("The little boy who became a cupboard"). Prague, SNDK, Czechoslovakia. Titular story was filmed as The Boy Who Became a Cupboard (1989).

(1966) Book: "Mravenecník v pocetnici" ("An anteater in a math book"). Prague, SNDK, Czechoslovakia.

(1968) Stage play: "Hra na Zuzanku" ("The Zuzanka Game"). Prague, Na Zábradlí Theatre, Czechoslovakia. Filmed as El juego de Zuzanka (1970).

(1982) Book: "Mach a Sebestová". Prague, Albatros, Czechoslovakia. The individual stories were gradually filmed as short animated films, starting with O utrzeném sluchátku (1976).

(1986) Book: "Rodinné album" ("The Family Album"). Prague, Ceskoslovenský spisovatel, Czechoslovakia.

(1988) Stage play: "Racajda" ("A Lewd Woman"), later also played under title "Tonka Sibenice" ("Tonka the Gallows") (partially based on materials by Egon Erwin Kisch. Prague, Czechoslovakia. Recorded for TV as Racajda (1989) and Tonka Sibenice (2011).

(1989) Book: "Láska a delové koule" ("Love and Cannon Balls"). Prague, Ceskoslovenský spisovatel, Czechoslovakia.

(1991) Book: "Zofka" ("Sophie"). Prague, Albatros, Czechoslovakia. Adapted for TV as a cartoon series Zofka a spol (1986).

(1991) Book: "Zofka reditelkou ZOO" ("Sophie, the ZOO manager"). Prague, Mladá fronta, Czechoslovakia. Adapted for TV as a cartoon series Zofka reditelkou zoo (1996).

(1993) Book: "Mach a Sebestová na prázdninách". Prague, Carmen, Czechoslovakia. Adapted for TV as a cartoon series Mach a Sebestová na prázdninách (1998).

(2000) Book: "Mr.Born, nemýlím-li se..." ("Mr. Born, if I'm not mistaken...") . (co-authored with illustrator Adolf Born). Prague, Slovart, Czech republic.

(2002) Book: "Mach a Sebestová v historii". Prague, Albatros, Czech republic.

(2002) Book: "Ostrov pro sest tisíc budíku" ("The Island for 6000 alarm clocks"). Prague, Amulet, Czech republic. The titular short story was filmed earlier as Ostrov pro 6.000 budíku (1977).

(1969) Comic book script: "Muriel a andelé" ("Muriel and Angels"). (co-authored with illustrator Kája Saudek). Book was completed in 1969, but first published in 1991. Prague, Czechoslovakia.

(1969) Comic book script: "Muriel a oranzová smrt" ("Muriel and the Orange Death"). (co-authored with illustrator Kája Saudek). Sequel to "Muriel a andelé" was completed in 1969, but first published 40 years later, in 2009. Prague, Albatros, Czech republic.

(November 2009) His screenplay for 'Ctyri vrazdy stací, drahousku' (1971) was adapted for a stage by Ilona Smejkalová. Premiere of the stage adaptation was 28th November 2009 in Kladno Theatre, Czech republic.

(1984) Comic book script: "Peruánský deník" ("The Peruan Diary"). (co-authored with illustrator Kája Saudek). Published in 1989 as part of comic book "3x Kája Saudek" (with other two comics: "Po stopách snezného muze" ("On the Trail of a Snowman") scripted by Josef Nesvadba and "Arnal a dva drací zuby" ("Arnal and Two Dragon Teeth") scripted by Ondrej Neff. Prague, Práce, Czechoslovakia.

(2009 - 2011) His screenplay for You Are a Widow, Sir! (1971) was adapted for the stage by Marta Ljubková and Zdenek Bartos. Premiere of the stage version directed by Zdenek Bartos was 31st December 2009 in Západoceské divadlo (West Bohemian Theatre), Cheb, Czech republic. Derniere was 1st December 2011.

(1978) Book: "O krásné Berte, hastrmanovi a trebonských lázních" ("The Beautiful Berta, the Waterman and the Trebon Spa"). (co-authored with illustrator Adolf Born). Prague, Balneo, Czechoslovakia.

(2012) Book: "Krokodýl Bambo" ("Bambo the Crocodile"). Horní Bríza, Granát, Czech Republic.

(1980) Unproduced screenplay "Prilozte pijavku!" ("Apply a Leach") co-authored with Hermína Franková.

(2002) Unproduced screenplay "Rosáda" ("Castling") co-authored with Václav Vorlícek. It was supposed to be a ghost-themed comedy written at the request of comedian Ludek Sobota, who was to play the lead role of a mad scientist alongside Jirina Bohdalová in a dual role.

(1996) Unproduced screenplay "Tri zlaté klíce" ("Three Golden Keys") co-authored with Petr Sís and Jan Drbohlav. A partly animated fantasy movie based on Petr Sís's book of the same title.

(1993) Unproduced screenplay "Potíze s Arnoldem" ("Troubles with Arnold") co-authored with Václav Vorlícek. It was a ghost-themed fantasy comedy about a shy teenager who accidentally dies and, with the help of advice from friendly ghosts, wins the girl of his heart.

(1960s) Unproduced screenplay "Six Wives of Henry Smith" co-authored with Oldrich Lipský. It was a comedy commissioned by an American hotel chain owner about a man who has a different girlfriend in each hotel, and of course neither knows about the other. The project failed after the producer declared bankruptcy.

(1969) Unproduced screenplay "Nadsamec" ("Supermale") co-authored with Juraj Herz, based on novel by Alfred Jarry. A provocative dark sci-fi comedy that counted on the surprising casting of Macourek's and Herz's mutual friend, screenwriter Pavel Jurácek, in the title role. After the Communist Party found Jurácek to be 'persona non grata', the project was dropped. A few years later, the writers tried to pitch the script again, and at one point Macourek was supposed to be the director as he seemed to be less controversial than Herz, but even that time the script was not produced.

(1970) Unproduced screenplay "Mlha" ("Mist") co-authored with Tomás Svoboda.

(1962) Unproduced screenplay "Plán Gulliver" ("Plan Gulliver") co-authored with Oldrich Lipský and Josef Nesvadba. It was supposed to be a big-budget two-part sci-fi comedy about the invention of shrinking scissors, which are used to shrink one country's army to the size of a matchbox and invade a neighboring country. The main characters of Egon (a role written for Vlastimil Brodský) and his girlfriend Marta (Jana Brejchová) were then supposed to shrink themselves via the scissors, get inside the head of a fanatical general and influence his behavior from the inside to save the day. The project ended due to the technical complexity of the special effects required. Milos Macourek later radically reworked the idea and wrote it as a six-part miniseries, Hamster in a Nightshirt (1988), directed by Václav Vorlícek.

(1970) Unproduced screenplay "Dostihy" ("Races") co-authored with Václav Vorlícek, based on short story by Guy de Maupassant.

(1968) Unproduced screenplay "Who Wants to Kill Jessie?" (US remake of Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)) co-authored with Václav Vorlícek and Stu Hample.

(1965) Unproduced screenplay "Vezen ze satelitu Y-R" ("A Prisoner from the Satellite Y-R"), also alternatively called "Zakázaný ostrov" ("The Forbidden Island") co-authored with Oldrich Lipský, Franco Solinas and Josef Nesvadba. A horror story based on Josef Nesvadba's short story 'The Second Island of Dr. Moreau', which was supposed to be a co-production with U.S. producer Samuel Z. Arkoff, who eventually considered the script to be "too artsy" for an average American audience and "too bloody" for the strict American rating system. The project was then discussed with a different, this time Italian producer, but it never materialized.

(1979) Unproduced screenplay "Pozár" ("Conflagration") co-authored with Juraj Herz and Svatopluk Novotný, based on novel by Karel Hynek Mácha.

(1988) Play: "Deti at zlobí" ("Let Children Be Naughty"), based on his short stories.

(1969) Unproduced screenplay "Jezte bonbony Felix" ("Eat Felix Candies"), co-authored by Oldrich Lipský. It was a psychedelic comedy about what would happen if LSD was accidentally added to commercially sold candy.

(1967) Audiobook: "Unglaubliche Geschichten" ("Incredible Stories") - written by. In Theater- Und Konzertdirektion D. Dickers & Co. Mitwirkende, Germany.

(1965) Radio reading: "O mrazíku, který maloval barvami" ("About the frost that painted with colors") - written by. In Ceskoslovenský rozhlas, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

(1988) Radio reading: "Koberec a piskótove omrvinky" ("The Carpet and Biscuit Crumbs") - written by. In Ceskoslovenský rozhlas, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

(2000) Audiobook: "Mach a Sebestová na cestách" ("Max & Sally on the move") - written by. In Supraphon, Prague, Czech Republic.

(1992) Radio reading: "O mrazíku, který maloval barvami" ("About a Frost who painted with colors") - written by. In Ceský rozhlas, Prague, Czech Republic.

(1992) Radio reading: "Jak delá slunce duhu" ("How the Sun makes a rainbow") - written by. In Ceskoslovenský rozhlas, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

(2012) Audiobook: "Pohádky Milose Macourka" ("Milos Macourek's Fairy Tales") - written by. In Levné knihy, Prague, Czech Republic.

(1999) Radio reading: "Sladké je zít" ("How Sweet To Live") - written by. In Ceský rozhlas, Prague, Czech Republic.

(1992) Radio reading: "O rozpustilém Arnostkovi a obycejné vode" ("About mischievous Arnostek and ordinary water") - written by. In Ceský rozhlas, Prague, Czech Republic.