Pennies from Heaven

1978 NR 7h 30m 8.4

A travelling sheet music salesman with an uptight wife throws everything away for the love of an innocent school teacher in the romantic spirit of the music he loves, that bursts into his life in full song-and-dance numbers.

Arthur, a sheet music salesman, has an ear for the hit tunes, but nobody will trust it. And his imagination often bursts into full song, building musical numbers around the greatest frustrations in his life. He meets an innocent young school teacher, Eileen, who seems to hear the same music, but when Eileen learns that he's married, and that she's pregnant with his child, she runs away. Arthur gives up everything to find and protect her, but fate and the music haven't finished with Arthur Parker.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Down Sunnyside Lane

1. Down Sunnyside Lane

Aired: Mar 7, 1978

A sheet music salesman hits the road during the Depression, leaving behind hi...

Episode 2 The Sweetest Thing

2. The Sweetest Thing

Aired: Mar 14, 1978

As Eileen is telling her school children their favourite fairy story, song sa...

Episode 3 Easy Come, Easy Go

3. Easy Come, Easy Go

Aired: Mar 21, 1978

Starved for attention from his frigid wife, the music salesman courts an elem...

Episode 4 Better Think Twice

4. Better Think Twice

Aired: Mar 28, 1978

Arthur and Eileen are both back in London. While he wants to start his own re...

Episode 5 Painting the Clouds

5. Painting the Clouds

Aired: Apr 4, 1978

Arthur and Eileen have disappeared. His wife Joan is receiving strange visits...

Episode 6 Says My Heart

6. Says My Heart

Aired: Apr 11, 1978

Arthur is now wanted for murder so he and Eileen are on the run, hungry, desp...

Info about Pennies from Heaven

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC One

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama, Romance, Musical