Arthur Parker is a sheet music salesman in the England of the nineteen thirties. He is also a romantic dreamer who finds his own personal reality in the lyrics of the songs which he hawks from town to town. Arthur expects life to be one long song, with none of the reality which gives life its contrasting dark side and ultimate richness and depth of purpose. But the dark side of life is waiting out there for Arthur Parker, just around the next corner. One of Dennis Potter's finest dramatic achievements in which he utilises the popular songs of the nineteen thirties and the techniques of lip-synchronisation to present this remarkable multi-layered story of the frustrations, joys and sorrows of ordinary every-day living. "A long time ago, a million years BC - The best things in life were absolutely free; But no-one appreciated a sky that was always blue, And no-one congratulated a moon that was a
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
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| Season 1 | March 1978 | April 1978 | 6 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
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| Unassigned Episodes | 6 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
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| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 6 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dennis Potter | 6 | 03/07/1978 - 04/11/1978 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piers Haggard | 6 | 03/07/1978 - 04/11/1978 |
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The BFI TV 100 is a list of 100 television programmes or series that was compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), as chosen by a poll of industry professionals, with the aim to determine the best British television programmes of any genre that had been screened up to that time.
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