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1.THE CONFIDENCE COURSE* BBC1/25 Feb 1965/The Wednesday Play Director:
Gilchrist Calder
with Dennis Price and Stanley Baxter (as Hazlitt).
2.ALICE*
BBC1/13 Oct 1965/The Wednesday Play
3.STAND UP NIGEL BARTON*
BBC1/8 Dec 1965/The Wednesday Play
with Keith Barron as Nigel, Janet Henfrey as the Schoolmistress
and Johnny Wade as George Pringle.
4.VOTE VOTE VOTE FOR NIGEL BARTON*
A sequel to the above.
BBC1/15 Dec 1965/The Wednesday Play
with Keith Barrron again as Barton.
5.EMERGENCY WARD 9
BBC2/11 Apr 1966/Thirty Minute Theatre Director: Gareth Davies
with Terence De Marney as Flanders.
An old man bickers with a young lay preacher in the bed next
to him.
6.WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM
BBC1/2 Nov 1966/The Wednesday Play Director: Gareth Davies
A young Welsh lad lives in Cowboy based fantasy world
and later goes on a real killing spree.
With Hywel Bennett as Willy Turner
7MESSAGE FOR POSTERITY
BBC1/3 May 1967/The Wednesday Play Director: Gareth Davies
With Joseph O'Conor as Browning.
8.THE BONEGRINDER*
Associated Rediffusion/13 May 1968/ITV Playhouse Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
A strange man inveigles his way into a household. (A common theme among Potter's
work).
9.SHAGGY DOG
LWT/The Company of Five/10 Nov 1968
Bizarre tale of a man going for a job interview shooting a
number of people and then jumping from the 14th floor of
the building.
with John Neville and Cyril Luckham.
10.A BEAST WITH TWO BACKS*
BBC1/20 Nov 1968/The Wednesday Play
11.MOONLIGHT ON THE HIGHWAY*
ITV/12 April 1969/Saturday Night Theatre
12.SON OF MAN*
BBC1/16 Apr 1969/The Wednesday Play
13.LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS
ITV/23 May 1970/Saturday Night Theatre Director: Christopher Morahan
Problems of virgin Private Robert Hawk, a Russian language
Clerk doing his national service. Based in part on Potter's own
national service and the same theme later reemerges in
Lipstick on Your Collar. With Nikolas Simmonds as Hawk.
14.ANGELS ARE SO FEW*
BBC1/5 Nov 1970/Play for Today Director: Gareth Davies
Strange individual Martin Biddle truly believes he is an angel
and targets various people in a bid to teach them a lesson.
with Tom Bell as Martin Biddle.
15.PAPER ROSES*
Granada/13 Jun 1971.
A critic watches a play about the last day at work of Fleet Street
reporter Clarence Hubbard. With Bill Maynard as Hubbard.
16.TRAITOR*
BBC1/14 Oct 1971/Play for Today. Former spy Adrian Harris is visited in Moscow by Western
journalists. With John Le Mesurier as Harris.
17.CASANOVA*
BBC2/16 Nov - 21 Dec 1971/ 6 Part serial.
18.FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
BBC2/4 Jul 1972/The Sextet.
Jack Black visits a psychiatrist convinced he is appearing in
a TV play.
19.ONLY MAKE BELIEVE
BBC1/ 1x75m-e / 12 Feb 1973/Play for Today Director: Robert Knights /
A kind of 'companion-piece' to Angels Are So Few in which a
TV playwright struggles to write his latest play (which is Angels
Are So Few). With Keith Barron as Christopher Hudson and Georgina
Hale as Sandra George / Alun Armstrong as Michael Biddle / Rowena Cooper as
Cynthia Nicholls / Laurence Hardy as Doctor / George Howe as Mr Cawser / John
Malcolm as Interviewer / Geoffrey Palmer as Richard Nicholls / Susan Richards as
Mrs Cawser / Monika Ringwald as Danish Girl
20.A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITIONS
BBC2/21 Nov 1973/Wessex Tales Producer: Irene Shubik, Director: Michael Tuchner
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A Thomas Hardy short story adapted by Potter about two
brothers training for the priesthood, with the cast headed by
John Hurt and Edward Petherbridge.
21.JOE'S ARK*
BBC1/14 Feb 1974/Play for Today Director: Alan Bridges /
Pet shop owner Joe turns his back on God when his daughter
gets cancer.
With Freddie Jones(as Joe), Angharad Rees and Dennis
Waterman.
22.SCHMOEDIPUS
BBC1/20 Jun 1974/Play for Today /
A young man called Glen inveigles his way into the house
of married Elizabeth claiming to be her son. Potter later
reworked this play for his fim Track 29.
With Anna Cropper as Elizabeth and Tim Curry as Glen.
23.LATE CALL*
BBC2/ 1 - 22 Mar 1975/ 4 Part serial.
Adaption of A.N. Wilson's novel.
24.DOUBLE DARE*
BBC1/6 Apr 1976/Play for Today
with Alan Dobie as Martin Ellis and Kika Markham as Helen.
25.WHERE ADAM STOOD*
BBC2/21 Apr 1976
26.BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE*
BBC/Recorded 2 - 4 Mar 1976 scheduled for transmission
at the end of Apr 76, witheld by the BBC it received it's
premiere on 25 Aug 1987.
27.THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE*
BBC2/22 Jan - 5 Mar 1978/7 Part serial Adaption by Potter of Thomas Hardy's novel.
28. PENNIES FROM HEAVEN*
BBC1/7 Mar - 11 Apr 1978/ Six part serial.
29.BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS*
BBC1/30 Jan 1979/Play for Today
30.BLADE ON THE FEATHER*
LWT/19 Oct 1980
31.RAIN ON THE ROOF
LWT/ 26 Oct 1980 / Director: Alan Bridges /
A young illiterate, Billy, goes for reading lessons with bored,
sexually frustrated housewife Janet, but Billy later turns out
to have murder on his mind.
with Cheryl Campbell as Janet.
32.CREAM IN MY COFFEE*
LWT/2 Nov 1980
33.TENDER IS THE NIGHT*
BBC2/23 Sep - 28 Oct 1985/Classic Serial /
An adaption by Potter of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.
34.THE SINGING DETECTIVE*
BBC1/16 Nov - 21 Dec 1986/6 Part serial
35.VISITORS*
BBC2/22 Feb 1987/Screen Two
An adaption by Potter's of his own stage play Sufficient
Carbohydrate.
36.CHRISTABEL*
BBC2/16 Nov - 7 Dec 1988/Four part serial /
An adaption by Potter of Christabel Bielenberg's autobiography
about life under Nazi rule.
37.BLACKEYES*
BBC2/29 Nov- 20 Dec 1989/ Four part serial.
38.LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR*
C4-Whistling Gypsy/21 Feb - 28 Mar 1993/6 Part serial
39.MESSAGE FOR POSTERITY*
BBC2/29 Oct 1994/'Performance' /
A restaging of Potter's 1967 play.
40.MIDNIGHT MOVIE
BBC2-Whistling Gypsy/26 Dec 1994 Director: Renny Rye. /
A Potter adaption of the novel by Elizabeth Ashe about a film
producer's nymphomaniac wife turning to murder.
with Louise Germaine and Brian Dennehy.
41.KAROKE*
BBC1/28 Apr - 19 May 1996
42.COLD LAZARUS* C4/ 26 May - 16 Jun 1996
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Probably Britain's most important and most consistent
TV Playwright whose later work was often unfairly dogged
by controversy. This is a complete run down of Potter's
fictional TV work (plays, serials etc), you'll find a complete overview of each
show in our 
