Dennis Potter's 'Pennies From Heaven' - 'Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You'

[SatchmoSings]

A great record however I don't like the way the teacher shows off sexuality to the children some of who do respond in kind; it's actually quite vulgar with more than overtones of pedophilia; at least the American version has less of this though it does still come through.

[kubism1978]

@SatchmoSings You're right!

Was there an American version of this series? I didn't know that.

[SatchmoSings]

@kubism1978 I don't believe it was a television series; I believe it was a commercially made theatrical cinema release starring Bernadette Peters and Steve Martin.

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[johnlegend47]

can someone please help, years ago i had pennies from heaven LP. which had a song "it's got to be love" i can't find it anywhere. Suggestions?

[kitabwalli]

Bought the 3-dvd set - best 60 I ever spent.

[johnlegend47]

@kitabwalli

Is there a song called "its got to be love"?

[harrydmr567]

that kid with the basin cut i my dad well sort of a basin cut

[harrydmr567]

that kid with the basin cut i my dad

[Hotwok191]

I reckon watching Dennis Potter's delightful surrealistic "Pennies from Heaven" is pretty good viewing for anything that ails you, as is the lovely face of Cheryl Campbell!.

[tinytina789]

What. A seris with no teenage vampires,werewolves or aliens?

[burnt62]

Lovely from begining to end !

[housewally]

Phyllis is a Yorkshire Lass

[MANFROMMARS46]

Great stuff, why don't we get this sort of thing on the telly nowadays. The last thing I liked was the Dorothys.

[woofer32]

great old record by Orlando and the Gleneagles orhestra.

[MANFROMMARS46]

@woofer32 was that Henry Hall, the Gleneagles orchestra? Who was the female singer?

[woofer32]

@MANFROMMARS46 I believe this record isOrlando but Henry Hall did play at the Gleneagles as well, the female singer here is Phyllis Robins and it was recorded on 28th June 1937.

[MANFROMMARS46]

@woofer32Thanks, Orlando is a new one to me. I know most of the British bands. Phyllis Robins sounds American.

[MCristinaG]

Lindoooo! Que saudades dos tempos em que se faziam obras primas para Televisão...

[POTT1973]

classic series, such a shame we only have the drivel on tv nowadays. original writer and nobody has matched him since.

[terrycharnley]

@POTT1973 I don't think you're alone in thinking that. TV now is such drivel that I'm surprised anyone still pays license fees. I don't have to put up with it anymore though, since I didn't want the new digital signal. Who cares? No tv to piss me off!! Yippee! And there's always this classic stuff on youtube.

If only school was REALLY like that! Certainly wouldn't have minded a teacher like that.

[newrochellephoenix]

Would you have the scene between Eileen and the headmaster ? It leads into " I Love You Truly"

[showmoke]

Absolutely wonderful and my favourite version of this song. The kids are great of course. What a wonderful bombshell it was at the time with Dennis Potter inventing new rules for television drama.