Pennies from Heaven

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Release Date

3/7/1978

Runtime

6 eps, 479 mins

Genres

Drama

Overview

Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into miming to popular 1930s songs. During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

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Original Language

English

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A layered, deeply melancholic series that uses 1930s music and surreal fantasy sequences to explore the gap between the lives people lead and the ones they desperately wish for. Potter's signature blend of gritty realism and dreamlike interludes creates a tender but unsettling portrait of desire and disappointment.