The Singing Detective
Rated 7.546 votes19861 season1h 10m
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
- Created by
- Dennis Potter
- First aired
- Nov 16, 1986
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 6
- Country
- GB
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S1 E1: Skin
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Nov 16, 1986Pulp 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.
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