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Brimstone and Treacle (TV 1976) (1976 Video)

Director

Barry Davis

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £5.99

Dennis Potter’s controversial black comedy in which the devil in disguise involves himself with the family of a girl who is physically amd mentally disabled after a road accident. The film was banned for...

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That was the Week That was [07/12/1963] (1963 Television)

aka: Tw3

Series

That was the Week That was

Director

Ned Sherrin

Producer

Ned Sherrin

Late-night topical satire show, popularly known as TW3, presented by David Frost. In this episode there are two Shakespeare sketches. I. ‘Monologue- Royal Shakespeare Theatre’ delivered by David Frost....

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Dennis Potter: Blue Remembered Hills (1979 Video)

aka: Blue Remembered Hills

Director

Brian Gibson

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

Dennis Potter’s play about childhood and the quickly changing intensities of misery and unhappiness, kindness and cruelty. On an apparently ordinary summer’s day in 1943, seven children are playing in...

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972 Video)

Director

Rod Graham

Producer

Alan Bridges

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 70 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Dennis Potter’s play in which a disturbed television actor overwhelmed with disgust at the misery of life takes refuge in the false security of psychiatry and anti-depressant drugs, knowing that they only...

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Dennis Potter - In Person (1996 Video)

Director

Tim Poole

Producer

Nigel Wattis

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 133 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Two programmes: In the first, shortly before his death from cancer, dramatist Dennis Potter was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for Channel Four’s ‘Without Walls’ slot in what was to be his last television...

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Singing Detective, The (2004)

Director

Jon Amiel

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 392 minutes), £19.99

Dennis Potter’s television mini-series that combines fantasy and reality with hit songs from the 1940s. Stars Michael Gambon as an unsuccessful thriller writer who is hospitalised with a terrible skin...

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Pennies from Heaven (2004)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £29.99

A television drama by Dennis Potter, broadcast in 6 weekly parts. Arthur, a salesman dealing in sheet music who can spot a hit song when he hears it, falls in love witha school teacher. When she discovers...

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Mayor of Casterbridge, The (1978) (1978)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 349 minutes), £19.99

A television dramatisation by Dennis Potter of the novel by Thomas Hardy, filmed on location in Wessex and starring Alan Bates.

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Son of Man (1969)

Subject

Religious studies; Television studies

Distribution

Out of Distribution

A play by Dennis Potter about Jesus, the man, as well as the religious, political and military climate he lived in. [90 minutes]

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Essential Dennis Potter, The

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (1665 minutes), £99.00

A set of 11 DVDs containing a collection of Dennis Potter’s work for the BBC. Features The Singing Detective, Pennies From Heaven, Casanova, Brimstone & Treacle, Vote Vote Vote For Nigel Barton/Stand Up...

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