In Cold Lazarus, the direct continuation of Karaoke, the action moves forward 400 years into the future (the year AD2368 in fact) where Daniel Feeld’s head...
Highly influential BBC1 ‘umbrella title’ for new plays by up and coming writers. Many great names made their mark with plays broadcast under the Wednesday Play...
A fortnightly book overview programme presented by Dick Taverne mainly notable for the fact that Dennis Potter contributed scripts of short excerpts of the books being...
Highly complex musical drama by Dennis Potter which was part autobiographical. A unique TV offering, compellingly brilliant to some but hugely confusing to many viewers. Originally...
In Moonlight on the Highway David Peters develops an unsettling obsession with the singer Al Bowlly despite the fact that he was only six when Bowlly...
Period drama serial Tender is the Night, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was one of the few non original pieces Dennis Potter was...
Period drama serial Casanova was an eyebrow raising version of the life of the 18th Century lover who died aged 73 (from exhaustion presumably). The show...
In Schmoedipus, a Play For Today entry from the 1974 season, Elizabeth is more than a little shocked when a young man turns up on her...
Drama series Home and Away (no relation to the long running Aussie soap of the same name) focused on middle aged Brenda, married to Godfrey and...
Similar in tone to Moonlight on the Highway, Follow The Yellow Brick Road sees Jack Black (the name apparently taken from the character in Dylan Thomas’s...
In the fantasy drama Angels Are So Few, which was an entry in the Play For Today strand Michael Biddles begins to believe that he is...
UK / ITV Network – Granada / 1×55 minute episode / Broadcast 13 June 1971 Writer: Dennis Potter / Production Design: Alan Price / Producer: Kenith...
UK / BBC ‘The Wednesday Play’ / 1×75 minute episodes / 1968 black and white Writer: Dennis Potter / Costume Design: June Wilson / Producer: Kenith...
UK / BBC Two / 4×50 minute episodes / Broadcast 1 – 22 March 1975 Writer: Dennis Potter / Novel: Angus Wilson / Script Editor: Lennox...
Not to put too fine a point on it Dennis Potter is quite simply the most important television dramatist that Britain has ever produced, his work...