The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective
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The Singing Detective

7.5 / 10
1986
1 season
6 episodes
DramaMystery

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

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Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

  • Skin

    1.Skin

    9.0
    16-11-198670m

    Pulp 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 ficti...

  • Heat

    2.Heat

    8.0
    23-11-198670m

    Dennis 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.

  • Lovely Days

    3.Lovely Days

    9.0
    30-11-198670m

    While 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, hi...

  • Clues

    4.Clues

    07-12-198670m

    Marlow 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 a...

  • Pitter Patter

    5.Pitter Patter

    14-12-198670m

    Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.

  • Who Done It

    6.Who Done It

    21-12-198670m

    The 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...

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