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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Air Date: 1978-03-07
Arthur Parker is a music salesman with a song in his heart but trouble in his fortunes. On a trip to Gloucester, he m...
Air Date: 1978-03-14
As Eileen tells her schoolchildren their favourite fairytale, song salesman Arthur, Prince Charming in the tale, is c...
Air Date: 1978-03-21
Arthur has at last returned home to his anxious, waiting wife, who still cares enough to make a new bargain with him....
Air Date: 1978-03-28
Arthur and Eileen are both back in London. While he seeks to start his own record shop, country girl Eileen wants the...
Air Date: 1978-04-04
Arthur and Eileen have disappeared. Joan is receiving strange visits from a police inspector, and the case of the mur...
Air Date: 1978-04-11
Now wanted for murder, Arthur takes Eileen on the run, hungry, desperate, but still together. They hide in a lonely f...