Dennis Potter bibliography

Dennis Potter (May 17, 1935 – June 7, 1994) was a controversial English dramatist with a large canon of work. First plays televised, 1965; first screenplay, 1982. Honorary fellow, New College, Oxford, 1987. Recipient: Writers Guild Awards, 1965 and 1969; Society of Film and Television Arts Award, 1966; British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award, 1979 and 1980; Prix Italia, 1982; San Francisco Film Festival Award, 1987; Broadcasting Press Guild Award, 1987.

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 (remake 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.