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The Singing Detective - Season 1
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Title: The Singing Detective

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

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Average Vote: 7.689 (37 votes)

Cast

  • Philip Marlow: Michael Gambon
  • Mr. Marlow: Jim Carter
  • Mark Binney: Patrick Malahide
  • Mrs. Marlow: Alison Steadman
  • Nicola: Janet Suzman
  • Nurse Mills: Joanne Whalley
  • Staff Nurse White: Imelda Staunton
  • Mr. Hall: David Ryall
  • First Mysterious Man: Ron Cook
  • Second Mysterious Man: George Rossi
  • Schoolteacher: Janet Henfrey
  • Dr. Finlay: Simon Chandler
  • Second Soldier: David Thewlis
  • The Singing Detective - Skin (Season 1 - Episode 1)

    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 fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.

    The Singing Detective - Heat (Season 1 - Episode 2)

    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.

    The Singing Detective - Lovely Days (Season 1 - Episode 3)

    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, his 30s style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.

    The Singing Detective - Clues (Season 1 - Episode 4)

    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 altered reality.

    The Singing Detective - Pitter Patter (Season 1 - Episode 5)

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

    The Singing Detective - Who Done It (Season 1 - Episode 6)

    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 and the frightening figure of the scarecrow that now erupts into the ward.

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