Dennis Potter was the author of the following TV plays: The
Confidence Course (1965), Alice (1965), Stand up,
Nigel Barton (1965), Vote,
Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (1965), Emergency Ward 9 (1966), Where
the Buffalo Roam (1966), Message for Posterity (1967), The
Bonegrinder (1968), Shaggy Dog (1968), A Beast with Two Backs
(1968), Moonlight on the Highway (1969), Son of Man
(1969), Lay Down Your Arms (1970), Angels Are So Few (1970), Paper
Roses (1971), Traitor (1971), Casanova
(1971), Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972), Only Make Believe
(1973), A Tragedy of Two Ambitions (1973), Joe's Ark (1974), Schmoedipus
(1974), Late Call (1975), Brimstone
and Treacle (1976), Double Dare (1976), Where Adam Stood
(1976), The Mayor
of Casterbridge (1978), Pennies
From Heaven (1978), Blue
Remembered Hills (1979), Blade on the Feather (1980), Rain on
the Roof (1980), Cream in My Coffee (1980), Tender is the Night
(1985), The
Singing Detective (1986), Visitors (1987), Christabel
(1988), Blackeyes
(1989), Lipstick
on Your Collar (1993), Karaoke
(1996), and Cold Lazarus (1996). He was also the author of the
following novels: Hide and
Seek (1973), Ticket to
Ride (1986), and the non-fiction title
The
Changing Forest: Life in the Forest of Dean Today
(1996). In addition to this, he was the author of
several movie screenplays: Gorky Park
(1983), Dreamchild (1985), Track 29
(1987), Secret
Friends (1991), Midnight
Movie (1993), and Mesmer
(1993).
Famous People in
the Forest of Dean – has a good oversight of Dennis Potter’s life
BBC4
Audio interviews – with Dennis Potter
Down
these mean streets an academic must go - Kevin Patrick Mahoney's
introduction to his Singing Detective essays
The
Singing Detective and Foucauldian Analysis
Misogyny
in The Singing Detective
Dennis
Potter and the Singing Detective – this website has a series of essays
about the serial
O'Farrell, Mary Ann
Self-consciousness and the Psoriatic Personality:
Considering Updike and Potter
Literature and Medicine - Volume 20, Number 2, Fall 2001,
pp. 133-150, The Johns Hopkins University Press
