Talk:Dennis Potter

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Brimstone_and_Treacle#Different_versions -- what more do you think we need, Pigsonthewing? <KF> 11:47, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Nigel Barton plays

I don't see how Potter's television debut - the Nigel Barton plays - can be described as "conventional". It is true that they are naturalistic, and lack the fantastic elements of his later work, but for their day they were extremely radical politically, and "worried" the BBC establishment on that account. The personal father-son drama in "Stand Up , Nigel Barton" - painful to watch even today - was also on a different level from most TV drama of the day.

I have therefore edited out the "conventionally enough" comment. I hope this is not controversial.

[edit] Blue Remembered Hills 1979

If you would like the National Film Institute to re-publish the classic 1979 BBC production on DVD, please contact the head of BFI Video, Erich Sargeant, at erich.sargeant@bfi.org.uk.

[edit] The Singing Detective

I can't BELIEVE there isn't an entry for this. It is probably DP's masterpiece and therefore a key piece of UK TV drama. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.100.152.92 (talk) 23:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC).

Oh there has been since 2004. MURGH disc. 00:53, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Where is he buried?

Hi:

Just wondering, for the sake of completeness.

AG —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.92.22.192 (talk) 22:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] The film "Mesmer"

Dennis Potter also wrote the manuscript for this 1994 film, see imdb. Rune Kock 19:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)