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Pennies from Heaven

TV series

Pennies from Heaven

7.6/ 10· 17197875 min1 season · 6 episodes
Drama

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.

Created by
Dennis Potter

Seasons and episodes

1 season · 6 episodes

Ended
1

Miniseries

6 episodesMarch 7, 1978
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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.

  1. S1 E1

    Down Sunnyside Lane

    Mar 7, 197872 min

    Arthur Parker is a music salesman with a song in his heart but trouble in his fortunes. On a trip to Gloucester, he meets two people who will change his life: a strange 'gentleman of the road', who plays hymns on a piano accordion and a bea

  2. S1 E2

    The Sweetest Thing

    Mar 14, 197878 min

    As Eileen tells her schoolchildren their favourite fairytale, song salesman Arthur, Prince Charming in the tale, is coming back to make her his princess. He finds her in a magical forest. His wife Joan wonders if she has left him for good a

  3. S1 E3

    Easy Come, Easy Go

    Mar 21, 197887 min

    Arthur has at last returned home to his anxious, waiting wife, who still cares enough to make a new bargain with him. She reluctantly agrees to finance his record shop.

  4. S1 E4

    Better Think Twice

    Mar 28, 197877 min

    Arthur and Eileen are both back in London. While he seeks to start his own record shop, country girl Eileen wants the life that begins at Oxford Circus.

  5. S1 E5

    Painting the Clouds

    Apr 4, 197881 min

    Arthur and Eileen have disappeared. Joan is receiving strange visits from a police inspector, and the case of the murdered blind girl is to be opened.

  6. S1 E6

    Says My Heart

    Apr 11, 197884 min

    Now wanted for murder, Arthur takes Eileen on the run, hungry, desperate, but still together. They hide in a lonely farmhouse, but he makes a fatal error.

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How many seasons of Pennies from Heaven are there?
Pennies from Heaven has 1 season and 6 episodes. Status: Ended.
Will there be a new season of Pennies from Heaven?
Pennies from Heaven has ended; no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on April 11, 1978.
Who stars in Pennies from Heaven?
Pennies from Heaven stars Bob Hoskins, Gemma Craven, Cheryl Campbell, Kenneth Colley, Jenny Logan.

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