Tender Is the Night (1985)

Potter's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, a BBC co-production with 20th Century Fox, shown in six episodes in fall 1985. Peter Strauss and Mary Steenburgen play Dick and Nicole Diver, the glamorous couple on the 1920s French Riviera whose marriage is strained by Nicole's mental illness. Rather than the published book's order, Potter followed the chronological rearrangement Malcolm Cowley made in 1951 from Fitzgerald's own notes, so the story unfolds in time order. It was widely praised but has been seldom seen since, so treat it as a find for Fitzgerald fans who want the Riviera years given room to breathe.