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  1. The Singing Detective

    The Singing Detective

    1986 · Musical · 1 season
  2. Episode Guide

    • 1. Skin
      1. Skin Nov 16, 1986
      • A hospitalized writer's hallucinations cause his doctors to believe he is crazy.
    • 2. Heat
      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
    • 3. Lovely Days
      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
  3. 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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  4. 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 serial was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1986 on Sunday nights from 16 November to 21 December, with ...

    • 16 November –, 21 December 1986
    • BBC1
  5. 1 hr 49 mins. Drama, Music, Comedy. R. Watchlist. Robert Downey Jr. is mesmerizing in this brilliant reimagining of Dennis Potter's musical 1986 miniseries. Downey plays a hospitalized writer, who...

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  6. Michael Gambon (shown with Alison Steadman) starred as pulp fiction writer Philip E Marlow in the groundbreaking 1986 series The Singing Detective (Credit: BBC)

  7. BBC iPlayer - The Singing Detective. Period Drama. The Singing Detective. Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music, about a pulp thriller writer whose memories, 1930s-style...

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  9. The Singing Detective. Home. Episodes. All. Available now (6) Next on (0) Who Done It. 6/6 Marlow still dreams about the homecoming and the frightening figure of the scarecrow. Pitter Patter....

  10. The Singing Detective. Michael Gambon, Janet Suzman and Patrick Malahide star in a 1987 miniseries about a stricken writer's painful recovery.

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