Brimstone and Treacle
The Singing Detective
Blue Remembered Hills
Pennies From Heaven
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Casanova
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton
Brimstone and Treacle Dennis Potter's controversial black-morality play is a major work from his early years, challenging established concepts of good and evil. A curious youth enveigles his way into a couple's home, and turns out to be the very devil himself.
Starring MICHAEL KITCHEN, DENHOLM ELLIOT, PATRICIA LAWRENCE & MICHELLE NEWELL
The Singing Detective Written by Dennis Potter this is the story of a writer who suffers from a skin disease which results in him being made to stay in hospital. There he fantasises about being a 1940's detective and begins to look back at his life.
Starring MICHAEL GAMBON, PATRICK MALAHIDE, JOANNE WHALLEY, JANET SUZMAN
Blue Remembered Hills The Dennis Potter Collection: Set in 1943 during an idyllic summer afternoon, children play in the fields, hills and forests. As they tease, fantasise and fight throughout the day, their innocence is about to be
destroyed. All the children in the story are played by adult actors, a technique Potter used to emphasise the darker aspects of children's innocence and imagination.
Starring HELEN MIRREN, MICHAEL ELPHICK, JOHN BIRD, COLIN WELLAND & JANINE DUVITSKI
Pennies From Heaven Arthur (Bob Hoskins) is a salesman dealing in sheet music who falls in love with a school teacher called Eileen (Cheryl Campbel). When Eileen discovers that she is pregnant and that Arthur is already married to Joan, she runs away. Arthur is determined to give up everything to find her again... he believes in happy endings, just like in the songs he loves so much.
Starring Bob Hoskins, Hywel Bennett, Nigel Havers, Peter Bowles and Cheryl Campbel
The Mayor of Casterbridge A Thomas Hardy novel adapted by Dennis Potter for television, in which a drunk man auctions his wife and daughter at a fair. Years pass before his wife finds him, and sees a prosperous and respectable man who tries to make amends...
Starring ALAN BATES, ANNA MASSEY & ANNE STALLYBRASS
Casanova Dennis Potter's dramatisation loosely based on the memoirs of the 18th Century libertine.
Starring FRANK FINLAY, NORMAN ROSSINGTON & CHRISTINE NOONAN
Stand Up, Nigel Barton & Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton Two Dennis Potter plays transmitted in 1965.
Starring KEITH BARRON, JACK WOOLGAR, JANET HENFREY, VALERIE GEARON & JOHN BAILEY All in English language. Certified 15 (Contains strong sex) Region 2
Film Censors Office Certified 18