Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter

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 graduating from Oxford University, Potter initially worked in journalism. After standing for parliament as a Labour candidate at the 1964 general election, his health was affected by the onset of psoriatic arthropathy which necessitated Potter changing careers and led to him becoming a television dramatist. His new career began with contributions to the BBC's Wednesday Play anthology series in 1965, and he continued to work in the medium for the rest of his life. He also wrote screenplay adaptations for the Hollywood studios. He died of pancreatic cancer in 1994.

  • Title: Dennis Potter
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Dennis Potter Movies

  • 1994
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    An Interview with Dennis Potter

    An Interview with Dennis Potter

    1 1994 HD

    Dennis Potter a television dramatist talks about his work, politics and his fears for both.

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  • 1994
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    Visions of Heaven and Hell

    Visions of Heaven and Hell

    1 1994 HD

    Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined...

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  • 1983
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    Gorky Park

    Gorky Park

    6.3 1983 HD

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  • 1988
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    Track 29

    Track 29

    5.5 1988 HD

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  • 1985
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    Dreamchild

    Dreamchild

    6.7 1985 HD

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  • 1981
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    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    6.034 1981 HD

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  • 1982
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    Brimstone & Treacle

    Brimstone & Treacle

    6 1982 HD

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  • 1980
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    Cream in My Coffee

    Cream in My Coffee

    6 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    Rain on the Roof

    Rain on the Roof

    5.8 1980 HD

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  • 1980
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    Blade on the Feather

    Blade on the Feather

    5.9 1980 HD

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  • 1970
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    Lay Down Your Arms

    Lay Down Your Arms

    6 1970 HD

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  • 1969
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    Moonlight on the Highway

    Moonlight on the Highway

    2 1969 HD

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  • 1974
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    Schmoedipus

    Schmoedipus

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1987
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    Brimstone and Treacle

    Brimstone and Treacle

    6 1987 HD

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  • 1991
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    Secret Friends

    Secret Friends

    3.9 1991 HD

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  • 1976
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    Where Adam Stood

    Where Adam Stood

    6.2 1976 HD

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  • 1994
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    Midnight Movie

    Midnight Movie

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1971
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    Paper Roses

    Paper Roses

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1969
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    Son of Man

    Son of Man

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1972
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    Follow The Yellow Brick Road

    Follow The Yellow Brick Road

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1976
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    Double Dare

    Double Dare

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1971
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    Traitor

    Traitor

    7.5 1971 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Singing Detective

    The Singing Detective

    5.119 2003 HD

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  • 1966
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    Where the Buffalo Roam

    Where the Buffalo Roam

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1970
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    Angels Are So Few

    Angels Are So Few

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1987
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    Visitors

    Visitors

    6 1987 HD

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  • 1994
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    Mesmer

    Mesmer

    6 1994 HD

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  • 1966
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    Emergency Ward 9

    Emergency Ward 9

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1979
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    Blue Remembered Hills

    Blue Remembered Hills

    6.5 1979 HD

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  • 1974
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    Joe's Ark

    Joe's Ark

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1968
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    A Beast with Two Backs

    A Beast with Two Backs

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1973
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    Only Make Believe

    Only Make Believe

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1960
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    Between Two Rivers

    Between Two Rivers

    7.3 1960 HD

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  • 1965
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    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

    VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton

    8 1965 HD

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  • 1994
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    Message for Posterity

    Message for Posterity

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1965
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    Stand Up, Nigel Barton

    Stand Up, Nigel Barton

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Bone Grinder

    The Bone Grinder

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1965
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    Alice

    Alice

    5 1965 HD

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  • 1985
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    Dreamchild

    Dreamchild

    6.7 1985 HD

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  • 1982
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    Brimstone & Treacle

    Brimstone & Treacle

    6 1982 HD

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  • 1968
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    Shaggy Dog

    Shaggy Dog

    6 1968 HD

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  • 1991
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    Secret Friends

    Secret Friends

    3.9 1991 HD

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  • 1991
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    Secret Friends

    Secret Friends

    3.9 1991 HD

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  • 1970
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    7.083 1970 HD

    During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    The year is 2368 and a group of scientists are on the brink of a major breakthrough as they begin to tap into the memory of a man who died in the...

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

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  • 1970
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    6.9 1970 HD

    Daniel Feeld, writer of the film Karaoke, starts to believe that his characters are coming alive.

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  • 1970
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    4.5 1970 HD

    The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written...

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  • 1970
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    8 1970 HD

    That Was the Week That Was, informally TWTWTW or TW3, is a satirical television comedy programme on BBC Television in 1962 and 1963. It was devised,...

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  • 1970
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    7.692 1970 HD

    Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny...

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  • 1970
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    6.1 1970 HD

    Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

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  • 1970
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    3.8 1970 HD

    Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a...

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his...

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  • 1970
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    5.833 1970 HD

    77-year-old Maurice James Kingsley writtes a successful novel about a fashion model, in this Dennis Potter miniseries. But Maurice’s furious...

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  • 1970
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    5.833 1970 HD

    77-year-old Maurice James Kingsley writtes a successful novel about a fashion model, in this Dennis Potter miniseries. But Maurice’s furious...

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  • 1970
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    5.833 1970 HD

    77-year-old Maurice James Kingsley writtes a successful novel about a fashion model, in this Dennis Potter miniseries. But Maurice’s furious...

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  • 1970
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    5.833 1970 HD

    77-year-old Maurice James Kingsley writtes a successful novel about a fashion model, in this Dennis Potter miniseries. But Maurice’s furious...

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  • 1970
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    4 1970 HD

    The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a...

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  • 1970
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    6.4 1970 HD

    Dennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920s are slowly drawn into the...

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  • 1970
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    7.083 1970 HD

    During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British...

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    Michael Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser, gets drunk at a fair and for five guineas sells his wife and child to a sailor. When the horror of his...

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    An Englishwoman married to a German is torn between love of her country and love of her husband.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast was featured in each production.

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Elderly couple Sylvia and Arthur Calvert are forced to move in with their widowed son and his children in Carshall New Town.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories written by novelist Thomas Hardy.

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

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  • 1970
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    4 1970 HD

    The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a...

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  • 1970
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    7.692 1970 HD

    Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny...

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  • 1970
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    7.083 1970 HD

    During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British...

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