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 4 May 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
- ITV Playhouse (1967) Writer
- Screen Two (1985) Writer
- The Wednesday Play (1964) Writer
- Performance (1991) Writer
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) Writer
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969) Writer
- The Singing Detective (1986) Writer
- Karaoke (1996) Writer
- Tender Is the Night (1985) Writer
- The Sextet (1972) Writer
- Wessex Tales (1973) Writer
- Pennies from Heaven (1978) Writer
- Cold Lazarus (1996) Writer
- Lipstick on Your Collar (1993) Writer
- Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (1964) Writer
- The Company of Five (1968) Writer
- That Was The Week That Was (1962) Writer
- Christabel (1988) Writer
- Gorky Park (1983) Screenplay
- Blackeyes (1989) Novel
- Track 29 (1988) Writer
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) Writer
- The Singing Detective (2003) Screenplay
- Pennies from Heaven (1981) Writer
- Dreamchild (1985) Writer
- Mesmer (1994) Writer
- Casanova (1971) Writer
- Blade on the Feather (1980) Writer
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972) Writer
- Brimstone & Treacle (1982) Screenplay
- Late Call (1975) Writer
- Schmoedipus (1974) Writer
- Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today (2020) as Self – Writer (archive footage, 1973 & 1977)
- Secret Friends (1991) Director
- Midnight Movie (1994) Writer
- Son of Man (1969) Writer
- Visions of Heaven and Hell (1994) as Self
- Message for Posterity (1994) Writer
- Only Make Believe (1973) Writer
- Joe's Ark (1974) Writer
- Moonlight on the Highway (1969) Writer
- Traitor (1971) Writer
- The Bone Grinder (1968) Writer
- Blue Remembered Hills (1979) Writer
- Cream in My Coffee (1980) Writer
- Brimstone and Treacle (1976) Writer
- Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965) Writer
- Where the Buffalo Roam (1966) Writer
- Visitors (1987) Writer
- A Beast with Two Backs (1968) Writer
- Alice (1965) Screenplay
- Angels Are So Few (1970) Writer
- VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton (1965) Writer
- Lay Down Your Arms (1970) Writer
- Rain on the Roof (1980) Writer
- Double Dare (1976) Writer
- Where Adam Stood (1976) Writer
- Paper Roses (1971) Writer
- An Interview with Dennis Potter (1994) as Himself
- Emergency Ward 9 (1966) Writer
- The Bittersweet (2000) Theatre Play
- Between Two Rivers (1960) Director
- Shaggy Dog (1968) Writer
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1991) Writer
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What are Dennis Potter's most popular films?
Most-watched Dennis Potter films currently: Gorky Park (1983), Track 29 (1988), The Singing Detective (2003), Pennies from Heaven (1981), Dreamchild (1985).
What TV shows has Dennis Potter appeared in?
Selected TV credits: Play for Today (1970), ITV Playhouse (1967), Screen Two (1985), The Wednesday Play (1964), Performance (1991).
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