The Singing Detective
8.6
1986
Drama
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
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- Cast:
- Michael Gambon , Jim Carter , Patrick Malahide , Alison Steadman , Janet Suzman , Joanne Whalley , Imelda Staunton
Episode 6 : Who Done It
December. 21,1986
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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Episode 5 : Pitter Patter
December. 14,1986
Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
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Episode 4 : Clues
December. 07,1986
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.
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Episode 3 : Lovely Days
November. 30,1986
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.
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