The Singing Detective
Bedridden by a debilitating disease, a crime novelist escapes into a shifting mix of imagination, hallucinations, and memories. As his mind rewrites his detective stories, a mystery seems to slowly come together between reality and fiction.
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Season 1
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E2
Heat
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.
Nov 23, 1986 · 69m -
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Pitter Patter
Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
Dec 14, 1986 · 58m -
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E6
Who Done It
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.
Dec 21, 1986 · 76m
