Where to watch Dennis Potter in the UK
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Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC TV serials Pennies from Heaven (1978), The Singing Detective (1986), and the television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). His television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from popular culture. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. Born in Gloucestershire and grad…
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- Play for Today (1970) Writer
- Screen Two (1985) Writer
- The Wednesday Play (1964) Writer
- ITV Playhouse (1967) Writer
- Performance (1991) Writer
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) Writer
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969) Writer
- Tender Is the Night (1985) Writer
- The Singing Detective (1986) Writer
- Karaoke (1996) Writer
- Pennies from Heaven (1978) Writer
- Gorky Park (1983) Screenplay
- Lipstick on Your Collar (1993) Writer
- Cold Lazarus (1996) Writer
- That Was The Week That Was (1962) Writer
- Wessex Tales (1973) Writer
- The Sextet (1972) Writer
- Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (1964) Writer
- Blackeyes (1989) Novel
- Track 29 (1988) Writer
- Christabel (1988) Writer
- The Company of Five (1968) Writer
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003) Creator
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) Writer
- Dreamchild (1985) Writer
- Schmoedipus (1974) Writer
- Pennies from Heaven (1981) Writer
- Mesmer (1994) Writer
- The Singing Detective (2003) Screenplay
- Brimstone & Treacle (1982) Screenplay
- Son of Man (1969) Writer
- Secret Friends (1991) Director
- Casanova (1971) Writer
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Most-watched Dennis Potter films currently: Gorky Park (1983), Track 29 (1988), Dreamchild (1985), Schmoedipus (1974), Pennies from Heaven (1981).
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Selected TV credits: Play for Today (1970), Screen Two (1985), The Wednesday Play (1964), ITV Playhouse (1967), Performance (1991).
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