Follow the Yellow Brick Road | |
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Written by | Dennis Potter |
Directed by | Alan Bridges |
Starring | Denholm Elliott Billie Whitelaw Richard Vernon Bernard Hepton Dennis Waterman Michele Dotrice |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Production | |
Producer | Roderick Graham |
Running time | 69 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC 2 |
Release | 4 July 1972 |
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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.