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BBC One · Ended
Pennies from Heaven
Drama · 1978
Last aired: S1 E6, Says My Heart · 1978-04-11
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.
Season 1
E1
Down Sunnyside Lane
1978-03-07 · 75 min
Adventures, mishaps and yearnings of a travelling song sheet pedlar on a tight commission, as he tries to make his dreams fit the promises of the lyrics he carries.
E2
The Sweetest Thing
1978-03-14 · 75 min
As Eileen is telling her school children their favourite fairy story, song sales man Arthur, Prince Charming in the tale, is coming back to make her his Princess.
E3
Easy Come, Easy Go
1978-03-21 · 75 min
Arthur has at last returned home to his anxious, waiting wife, who still cares enough to make a new bargain with him. She agrees to finance his own record shop.
E4
Better Think Twice
1978-03-28 · 75 min
Arthur and Eileen are both back in London. While he wants to start his own record shop, country girl Eileen wants to live the life that begins at Oxford Circus.
E5
Painting the Clouds
1978-04-04 · 75 min
Arthur and Eileen have disappeared. His wife Joan is receiving strange visits from a police inspector, and the case of the murdered blind girl is to be opened.
E6
Says My Heart
1978-04-11 · 75 min
Arthur is now wanted for murder so he and Eileen are on the run, hungry, desperate, but still together. They hide in a lonely farmhouse, but Arthur makes a fatal error.
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Bob Hoskins
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