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The Singing Detective is a BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon and directed by Jon Amiel. Its six episodes are "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter" and "Who Done It".
The Singing Detective: With Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, David Ryall. Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
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- 1986-11-16
- Drama, Musical, Mystery
- 70
Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials Pennies from Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986) as well as the BBC television plays Blue Remembered Hills (1979) and Brimstone and Treacle (1976). [1]
Michael Gambon (shown with Alison Steadman) starred as pulp fiction writer Philip E Marlow in the groundbreaking 1986 series The Singing Detective (Credit: BBC)
- Adam Scovell
Feb 24, 2012 · Michael Gambon plays a writer hospitalized with a horrible skin condition in the 1986 BBC miniseries The Singing Detective. BBC. The Singing Detective is the story of a writer of pulp-fiction...
Nov 21, 2016 · A middle-aged misanthropic writer of pulp detective stories, the appropriately named Philip E Marlow (played by Michael Gambon ), is hospitalised with a dreadful disease that inflames the...
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.
