It is my understanding that, because Potter had requested they be a BBC/Channel 4 co-production with one channel originally showing each series, there was some complication arising from this preventing a DVD release of either; if this understanding is out of date I should be most pleased. Cold Lazarus has a couple of irritating "mainstream writer picks up SFnal tropes without actually making it make sense like SF" things about it, but it also has my mother's ex-boyfriend (from when she was ten) in a secondary role, and they are... truly astounding, particularly in the light of being written in what Potter knew were the last couple of months of his life.
While seconding the recommendation for The Singing Detective and Potter's original TV Pennies from Heaven with Bob Hoskins, I do also think that the subsequent film version of Pennies from Heaven with Steve Martin, while not as good, is worth watching. (If only for an amazing Christopher Walken dance number.)
It is also worth noting that Dennis Potter wrote the screenplay for the excellent film version of Gorky Park, which is highly worth watching.
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It is my understanding that, because Potter had requested they be a BBC/Channel 4 co-production with one channel originally showing each series, there was some complication arising from this preventing a DVD release of either; if this understanding is out of date I should be most pleased. Cold Lazarus has a couple of irritating "mainstream writer picks up SFnal tropes without actually making it make sense like SF" things about it, but it also has my mother's ex-boyfriend (from when she was ten) in a secondary role, and they are... truly astounding, particularly in the light of being written in what Potter knew were the last couple of months of his life.
While seconding the recommendation for The Singing Detective and Potter's original TV Pennies from Heaven with Bob Hoskins, I do also think that the subsequent film version of Pennies from Heaven with Steve Martin, while not as good, is worth watching. (If only for an amazing Christopher Walken dance number.)
It is also worth noting that Dennis Potter wrote the screenplay for the excellent film version of Gorky Park, which is highly worth watching.