Series
The Singing Detective
DramaMystery
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
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Seasons & episodes
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
1Skin16 Nov 1986 · 70m · ★ 9.0Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future. His memories, his 1930s-style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.
2Heat23 Nov 1986 · 70m · ★ 8.0Dennis Potter's drama about a patient struggling to keep his sanity, with the help of his alter ego, the singing private eye. Marlow faces a talking cure with a psychologist.
3Lovely Days30 Nov 1986 · 70m · ★ 9.0While in hospital with psoriasis, Marlow thinks back to the war when he was a little boy, and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex in the Forest of Dean. His memories, his 30s style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.
4Clues7 Dec 1986 · 70mMarlow as a child visits London, but is not impressed. A film option on Marlow's novel thickens the plot. His memories, his 30s style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.
5Pitter Patter14 Dec 1986 · 70mMarlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
6Who Done It21 Dec 1986 · 70mThe young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mother's death in London. Forty years on, Marlow the hospital patient still dreams about the homecoming and the frightening figure of the scarecrow that now erupts into the ward.
Details
- Created by
- Dennis Potter
- First aired
- 16 Nov 1986
- Last aired
- 21 Dec 1986
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 6
- Votes
- 46 on TMDB
Cast
Michael GambonPhilip Marlow
Joanne WhalleyNurse Mills
David RyallMr Hall
Sharon D. ClarkeNight Nurse
Gerard HoranReginald
Ron CookFirst Mysterious Man- GGeorge RossiSecond Mysterious Man
