Dennis Potter bibliography
# 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 Wednesday Play: The Confidence Course (no recording exists)
* 1965 Alice
* 1965 Almost Cinderella (not produced)
* 1965 Stand Up, Nigel Barton
* 1965 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
* 1968 A Beast With Two Backs
* 1969 Moonlight on the Highway
* 1969 Son of Man
* 1970 Lay Down your Arms
* 1970 Angels Are So Few
* 1971 Paper Roses
* 1971 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
* 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
* 1975 Late Call
* 1978 The Mayor of Casterbridge
* 1978 Pennies from Heaven
* 1985 Tender Is the Night
* 1986 The Singing Detective
* 1988 Christabel
* 1989 Blackeyes (writer, director)
* 1993 Lipstick on Your Collar
* 1996 Karaoke
* 1996 Cold Lazarus

## Cinema films

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

## Stage

* 1983 Sufficient Carbohydrate

## 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.
