Pennies from Heaven

Miniseries

1978 · 6 episodes · 7h 59m in all

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

Episodes

1. 

   1. Down Sunnyside Lane

   7 Mar 1978 · 72 min

   Arthur Parker is a music salesman with a song in his heart but trouble in his fortunes. On a trip to Gloucester, he meets two people who will change his life: a strange 'gentleman of the road', who plays hymns on a piano accordion and a beautiful young teacher. At home, Arthur's wife Joan waits apprehensively.

2. 

   2. The Sweetest Thing

   14 Mar 1978 · 78 min

   As Eileen tells her schoolchildren their favourite fairytale, song salesman Arthur, Prince Charming in the tale, is coming back to make her his princess. He finds her in a magical forest. His wife Joan wonders if she has left him for good and the mysterious accordion player still haunts the story.

3. 

   3. Easy Come, Easy Go

   21 Mar 1978 · 87 min

   Arthur has at last returned home to his anxious, waiting wife, who still cares enough to make a new bargain with him. She reluctantly agrees to finance his record shop.

4. 

   4. Better Think Twice

   28 Mar 1978 · 77 min

   Arthur and Eileen are both back in London. While he seeks to start his own record shop, country girl Eileen wants the life that begins at Oxford Circus.

5. 

   5. Painting the Clouds

   4 Apr 1978 · 81 min

   Arthur and Eileen have disappeared. Joan is receiving strange visits from a police inspector, and the case of the murdered blind girl is to be opened.

6. 

   6. Says My Heart

   11 Apr 1978 · 84 min

   Now wanted for murder, Arthur takes Eileen on the run, hungry, desperate, but still together. They hide in a lonely farmhouse, but he makes a fatal error.