Where to watch Dennis Potter in the UK
Find every Dennis Potter film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 17 September 2026.
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
- Christabel (1988) Writer
- The Wednesday Play (1964) Writer
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) Writer
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969) Writer
- Performance (1991) Writer
- ITV Playhouse (1967) Writer
- The Singing Detective (1986) Writer
- Television (1985) Cast
- That Was the Week That Was (1962) Writer
- Karaoke (1996) Writer
- Gorky Park (1983) Screenplay
- Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (1964) Writer
- Cold Lazarus (1996) Writer
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) Writer
- Tender Is the Night (1985) Writer
- The Company of Five (1968) Writer
- Pennies from Heaven (1978) Writer
- The Singing Detective (2003) Screenplay
- Track 29 (1988) Writer
- Lipstick on Your Collar (1993) Writer
- Pennies from Heaven (1981) Writer
- Dreamchild (1985) Writer
- Wessex Tales (1973) Writer
- Traitor (1971) Writer
- The Bittersweet (2000) Theatre Play
- The Sextet (1972) Writer
- Mesmer (1994) Writer
- Secret Friends (1991) Director
- Casanova (1971) Writer
- Blue Remembered Hills (1979) Writer
- Blackeyes (1989) Novel
- Shaggy Dog (1968) Writer
- Where Adam Stood (1976) Writer
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003) Creator
- Cream in My Coffee (1980) Writer
- Late Call (1975) Writer
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972) Writer
- Visitors (1987) Writer
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Most-watched Dennis Potter films currently: Gorky Park (1983), The Singing Detective (2003), Track 29 (1988), Pennies from Heaven (1981), Dreamchild (1985).
What TV shows has Dennis Potter appeared in?
Selected TV credits: Play for Today (1970), Screen Two (1985), Christabel (1988), The Wednesday Play (1964), Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965).
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