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  1. Beast with Two Backs, A (2015)

    Director
    Lionel Harris
    Producer
    Patrick Barr (3)
    Subject
    Drama

    Dennis Potter’s television drama. The story tells of an Italian showman and his dancing bear arriving in the neighbourhood at the same time a violent attack occurs. The scapegoats are the bear and a...

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  2. Double Dare (2015)

    Director
    John Mackenzie
    Producer
    Kenith Trodd
    Subject
    Drama

    Television drama written by Dennis Potter. A call girl, her client, an actress and a writer meet in a London hotel for an evening that does not develop as any of them would like. The play explores the link...

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  3. Mesmer (2007)

    Director
    Roger Spottiswoode
    Subject
    Film Studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £9.99

    Film dramatisation by Dennis Potter of the life of eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of ‘animal magnetism’. After...

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  4. Dennis Potter at London Weekend Television, Vol 2 (2007)

    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1665 minutes), £99.99

    A collection of three of Dennis Potter’s plays made for London Weekend Television that have been unavailable for nearly forty years: Shaggy Dog, Moonlight on the Highway and Lay Down Your Arms....

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  5. 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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  6. Karaoke / Cold Lazarus (1996)

    Director
    Renny Rye
    Producer
    Kenith Trodd
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 430 minutes (combined)), £39.99

    Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six-months to live, Dennis Potter undertook a race against time to complete his final two creations that were uniquely shared between Channel 4...

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  7. Cymbeline (1985 Television, Video)

    Producer
    Victor Poole
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

    A personal view of the play presented by Dennis Potter. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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