Dennis Potter bibliography

'''[[Dennis Potter]]''' (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English [[dramatist]] with a large canon of work.

== Television plays == * 1965 ''[[The Confidence Course|The Wednesday Play: The Confidence Course]]'' (no recording exists) * 1965 ''Alice'' * 1965 ''Almost Cinderella'' (not produced) * 1965 ''[[The Nigel Barton Plays#Stand Up, Nigel Barton|Stand Up, Nigel Barton]]'' * 1965 ''[[The Nigel Barton Plays#Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton|Vote Vote Vote for Nigel Barton]]'' * 1966 ''[[Emergency – Ward 9]]'' * 1966 ''Where the Buffalo Roam'' * 1967 ''Message for Posterity'' (no recording exists) * 1968 ''The Bonegrinder'' * 1968 ''[[Shaggy Dog (play)|Shaggy Dog]]'' * 1968 ''[[A Beast With Two Backs]]'' * 1969 ''[[Moonlight on the Highway]]'' * 1969 ''[[Son of Man (play)|Son of Man]] '' * 1970 ''Lay Down your Arms'' * 1970 ''Angels Are So Few '' * 1971 ''Paper Roses'' * 1971 ''[[Traitor (TV drama)|Traitor]]'' * 1972 ''[[Follow the Yellow Brick Road]]'' * 1973 ''Only Make Believe'' * 1973 ''A Tragedy of Two Ambitions'' * 1974 ''[[Joe's Ark]]'' * 1974 ''Schmoedipus'' * 1976 ''[[Double Dare (play)|Double Dare]]'' * 1976 ''[[Where Adam Stood]]'' * 1979 ''[[Blue Remembered Hills]]'' * 1980 ''[[Blade on the Feather]]'' * 1980 ''[[Rain on the Roof]]'' * 1980 ''[[Cream in My Coffee]]'' * 1987 ''Visitors'' * 1987 ''[[Brimstone and Treacle]]'' (after an 11-year ban on the play, originally intended for transmission in 1976, was finally lifted) * 1994 ''Message for Posterity'' (remake of 1967 play)

== Television Serials ==

* 1971 ''[[Casanova (1971 TV serial)|Casanova]]'' * 1975 ''Late Call'' * 1978 ''[[The Mayor of Casterbridge (TV series)|The Mayor of Casterbridge]]'' * 1978 ''[[Pennies from Heaven (TV series)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' * 1985 ''[[Tender Is the Night#Film, TV and stage adaptations|Tender Is the Night]]'' * 1986 ''[[The Singing Detective]]'' * 1988 ''[[Christabel (1988 TV drama)|Christabel]]'' * 1989 ''[[Blackeyes (TV series)|Blackeyes]]'' (writer, director) * 1993 ''[[Lipstick on Your Collar (TV series)|Lipstick on Your Collar]]'' * 1996 ''[[Karaoke (play)|Karaoke]]'' * 1996 ''[[Cold Lazarus]]''

== Cinema films ==

* 1981 ''[[Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)|Pennies from Heaven]]'' * 1982 ''[[Brimstone and Treacle]]'' * 1983 ''[[Gorky Park (film)|Gorky Park]]'' * 1985 ''[[Dreamchild]]'' * 1988 ''[[Track 29]]'' (reworking of ''Schmoedipus'') * 1991 ''[[Secret Friends]]'' (writer, director) * 1993 ''[[Mesmer (film)|Mesmer]]'' * 1993 ''Midnight Movie'' (intended for commercial release) * 2003 ''[[The Singing Detective (film)|The Singing Detective]]''

== Stage ==

* 1983 ''Sufficient Carbohydrate''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sufficient Carbohydrate |url=https://www.concordtheatricals.co.uk/p/64543/sufficient-carbohydrate |access-date=2025-08-01 |website=Concord Theatricals |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== Publications ==

* ''The Glittering Coffin'', London: Gollancz, 1960. * ''The Changing Forest: Life in the Forest of Dean Today''. London: Secker and Warburg, 1962. * ''The Nigel Barton Plays: Stand Up, Nigel Barton, Vote Vote Vote for Nigel Barton: Two Television Plays''. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1968. * ''Son of Man'' (television play). London: Samuel French, 1970. * ''Hide and Seek'' (novel). London: Deutsch, 1973. * ''Brimstone and Treacle'' (television play). New York, Samuel French, 1978. * ''Pennies from Heaven'' (novel). London: Quartet, 1981. * ''Sufficient Carbohydrate'' (play). London: Faber, 1983. * ''Waiting for the Boat: Dennis Potter on Television''. London: Faber, 1984. * ''The Singing Detective'' (television series). London: Faber, 1986. * ''Ticket to Ride'' (novel). London: Faber, 1986. * ''Blackeyes'' (novel). London: Faber, 1987. * ''Christabel'' (television series), 1988. * ''Potter on Potter'', ed. by Graham Fuller. London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993. * ''Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews, A Lecture and A Story''. London; Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994. * ''Karaoke and Cold Lazarus'' (television plays). London: Faber, 1996.

==References== {{reflist}}

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