Period Drama

The Singing Detective

Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music, about a pulp thriller writer whose memories, 1930s-style gumshoe fiction and debilitating skin disease weave him an altered reality.

1. Skin (69 mins)

1. Skin
A patient struggles to keep his sanity while his alter ego, a private eye, keeps singing.
69 mins
2. Heat
Marlow faces his personal misery of the talking cure with the psychologist.
69 mins
3. Lovely Days
Marlow thinks back to his childhood and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex.
63 mins
4. Clues
Marlow as a child visits London. A film option on Marlow's novel thickens the plot.
67 mins
5. Pitter Patter
Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality converge.
58 mins
6. Who Done It
Marlow still dreams about the homecoming and the frightening figure of the scarecrow.
76 mins

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The Singing Detective