TV Show Details
Air Date:March 7th, 1978
Last Air Date:April 11th, 1978
Network:BBC One
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC, BBC One
Pennies from Heaven on the Web:Official Website
Pennies from Heaven (1978)
BBC One
Miniseries
Audience Score
Plot
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.
