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a British writer of plays for television, whose many plays include Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective. He is one of the most important and original writers of plays for television, which often use popular songs as part of serious stories (1935-94). born May 17, 1935, Berry Hill, Gloucestershire, Eng. died June 7, 1994, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire British dramatist. Educated at Oxford, he thereafter devoted himself to writing, especially of television plays. His innovative serial Pennies from Heaven (1978) combined fantasy sequences and musical interludes in which actors lip-synched to old recordings of period songs. His best-known teleplay, the eight-part The Singing Detective (1986), an autobiographical account of his crippling bouts of psoriatic arthropathy, combined humour, pathos, and fantastic musical numbers. His other teleplays include the allegedly sacrilegious Brimstone and Treacle (1976, televised 1987) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). His movie screenplays include Gorky Park (1983) and Dreamchild (1985)

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Dennis Christopher George Potter
born May 17, 1935, Berry Hill, Gloucestershire, Eng. died June 7, 1994, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire British dramatist. Educated at Oxford, he thereafter devoted himself to writing, especially of television plays. His innovative serial Pennies from Heaven (1978) combined fantasy sequences and musical interludes in which actors lip-synched to old recordings of period songs. His best-known teleplay, the eight-part The Singing Detective (1986), an autobiographical account of his crippling bouts of psoriatic arthropathy, combined humour, pathos, and fantastic musical numbers. His other teleplays include the allegedly sacrilegious Brimstone and Treacle (1976, televised 1987) and Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). His movie screenplays include Gorky Park (1983) and Dreamchild (1985)
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