Pennies from Heaven
1978 · BBC One · 75 min · 1 season
S01E06 · Says My Heart
Wed, 12 Apr, 6:25 am
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.
About
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.
Episodes
- E01
Down Sunnyside Lane
Wed, 8 Mar· 75 minAdventures, 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.
- E02
The Sweetest Thing
Wed, 15 Mar· 75 minAs 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.
- E03
Easy Come, Easy Go
Wed, 22 Mar· 75 minArthur 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.
- E04
Better Think Twice
Wed, 29 Mar· 75 minArthur 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.
- E05
Painting the Clouds
Wed, 5 Apr· 75 minArthur 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.
- E06
Says My Heart
Wed, 12 Apr· 75 minArthur 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.
Cast
Bob Hoskins
Arthur Parker
Cheryl Campbell
Eileen
Gemma Craven
Joan Parker