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1. • Season 1 overview

     Nov 16-Dec 21, 1986

     6 episodes

     Season 1 episodes
     

     1. Skin Nov 16, 1986
     • A hospitalized writer's hallucinations cause his doctors to believe he is crazy.
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     2. Heat Nov 23, 1986
     • After 10 or 11 weeks in the hospital, Marlow has a session with a psychiatrist, Dr. Gibbon, that does not go well. Gibbon believes that the root of Marlow's skin disorder is psychological and that he will not heal until he deals with his inner demons. Marlow recalls events, real or imagined, from his childhood growing up in a coal mining community. His father's singin... Read all
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     3. Lovely Days Nov 30, 1986
     • Marlow recalls the last days of World War II and a train journey with his mother when they visited her family. He again recalls his mother going into the woods and having sex with a man they know, Raymond. When soldiers on the train try to get friendly with her, he lashes out. At the hospital, he has another session with the psychiatrist, Dr. Gibbon, who questions if ... Read all
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     4. Clues Dec 7, 1986
     • In his novel, Marlow has contacted the police and they have taken the dead woman away. He suspects that Mark Binney, who admitted that his visit to the nightclub wasn't entirely by chance. Marlow decides to test Amanda as she leaves the club and he now finds himself under surveillance by the two trench coat-wearing hoods who were keeping an eye on Binney. As a young l... Read all
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     5. Pitter Patter Dec 14, 1986
     • In the hospital, Marlow's ex-wife pays him another visit clearly intent on getting him to sign a contract to option his book The Singing Detective, the screenplay for which her friend Mark Finney will try peddle as his own. Marlow begins to wonder if paranoia is setting in when when he sees two trench coat-wearing hoods - characters as imagined in his novel - in the w... Read all
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     6. Who Done It Dec 21, 1986
     • In the final episode of the series, memories of Marlow's childhood, his dreams and the events in his re-imagined novel collide with present day reality.