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.