Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials "Pennies from Heaven" (1978), "The Singing Detective" (1986), and the BBC television plays "Blue Remembered Hills" (1979) and "Brimstone and Treacle" (1976). His television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from popular culture. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television.