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The serial was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1986 on Sunday nights from 16 November to 21 December, with later PBS and cable television showings in the United States. It won a Peabody Award in 1989.
Nov 14, 2003 · The Singing Detective: Directed by Keith Gordon. With Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Jeremy Northam. From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
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The Singing Detective is a 2003 American musical crime comedy film directed by Keith Gordon and loosely based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work by British writer Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and features a supporting cast that includes Katie Holmes , Adrien Brody , Robin Wright Penn , Mel Gibson , Jeremy Northam and Carla ...
Feb 24, 2012 · The Singing Detective has never been televised nationally in the United States. Next year, on the 25th anniversary of its arrival on these shores, it ought to be.
Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, directed in six parts by Jon Amiel, first aired on BBC1 from 16 November to 21 December 1986. That means a quarter of a century has passed in which it has remain un-eclipsed as television’s Citizen Kane (in Stephen King’s estimation) and its Hamlet.
The Singing Detective on DVD March 23, 2004 starring Robert Downey Jr., Robin Wright, Mel Gibson, Katie Holmes. Chicago residential novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.), crippled by a horribly severe case of psioriasis, starts rewriting his 1950s noir.
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Nov 7, 2003 · Keith Gordon's "The Singing Detective" involves the world of Dan Dark ( Robert Downey Jr.), once a writer, now living in a world so encompassed by pain that it has become the single fact of his life. The movie is based on an eight-hour BBC series that ran in 1986; both were written by Dennis Potter, whose own psorasis was nearly unbearable.
