53 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
LatestBalmer realises he's being followed by two men in a car, henchmen sent by Mallion, determined to protect his interests Feeld learns his fate, and summons his agent Ben Baglin to draw up a new Will, listing Sandra as a beneficiary and ordering certain stipulations. Feeld must now make a momentous decision to change the course of events.
Screenwriter Daniel Feeld experiences bizarre coincidences as his screenplay—about a karaoke bar, an employee named Sandra, and her murder by Arthur 'Pig' Mallion—seems to mirror reality, with a karaoke bar, an employee named Sandra, and a shady owner named Mallion.
Writing
Potter's final serial—literally writing his own death.
Acting
Finney's haunted, knowing performance.
Direction
Potter directs like he's racing mortality.
Creator
Dennis Potter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Potter was literally dying of pancreatic cancer during filming and rewrote scenes daily, turning his own mortality into the text.
The karaoke scenes weren't ironic—they were Potter's final meditation on working-class British culture, the 'sing your life' ethos he came from.
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