Follow the Yellow Brick Road

Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Written byDennis Potter
Directed byAlan Bridges
StarringDenholm Elliott
Billie Whitelaw
Richard Vernon
Bernard Hepton
Dennis Waterman
Michele Dotrice
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Production
ProducerRoderick Graham
Running time69 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC 2
Release4 July 1972 (1972-07-04)
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast in 1972 as part of BBC Two's The Sextet series of eight plays featuring the same six actors. The play's central theme is of popular culture becoming the inheritor of religious scripture, which anticipated Potter's later serial Pennies from Heaven. The play's title is taken from the song used in The Wizard of Oz, another version of which features in the incidental music.