Name: Pennies from Heaven
Genre: Drama
Released: 1978-03-07
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Gemma Craven, Cheryl Campbell, Kenneth Colley

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Latest Episode

84 min

Season 1 • Episode 6

Latest

Says My Heart

Apr 11, 1978

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.

Overview

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.