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Wed 14
Skin — The Singing Detective
Dennis Potter's surreal 1986 drama, starring Michael Gambon as a struggling pulp-fiction novelist who begins to mentally assume the role of one of his characters while confined to a hospital bed. However, while he drifts in and out of his fantasy world, he is also confronted by disturbing visions from his childhood. With Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley and Imelda Staunton
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Wed 14
Heat — The Singing Detective
Marlow clashes with Dr Gibbon, a hospital psychiatrist who has read one of his novels and thinks he can get to the root of his problems. Shaken, the writer returns to his bed, but his mood does not improve when his ex-wife Nicola arrives. Meanwhile, in the novel playing out inside his head, the mysterious Binney finds himself in peril. Dennis Potter's darkly surreal 1986 drama, starring Michael Gambon, Bill Paterson and Janet Suzman
More Details for The Singing Detective, Wed 14, 11:25 pm -
Wed 21
Lovely Days — The Singing Detective
Marlow is shocked when one of his fellow patients dies. As his mental state becomes increasingly fragile, he is also haunted by childhood memories of his mother, who has begun to appear as one of the characters in the pulp fiction tale he is composing in his head. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Dr Gibbon has questions for Nicola. Surreal drama from 1986, written by Dennis Potter and starring Michael Gambon
More Details for The Singing Detective, Wed 21, 10:15 pm -
Wed 21
Clues — The Singing Detective
Nicola tells Philip a film company wants to adapt his book but he remains suspicious, wondering why they would go to her rather than approach him directly. Tormented by memories of his childhood, the hospitalised writer resolves to uncover the guilty party in fiction and reality - while in the story playing out in his head, the fictional Marlow is pursued by two mysterious men
More Details for The Singing Detective, Wed 21, 11:20 pm
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Cast
The Singing Detective Cast
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as Philip Marlow
as Nurse Mills
as Staff Nurse White
as Mark Binney
as Mr Tomkey
as Mr Hall
as Reginald
as Porter
as Dr Finlay
as Philip Marlow aged 10