Den sjungande detektiven
(1986)
Originaltitel: The Singing Detective
Release: 1986-11-01
TV-bolag: BBC One
Längd per avsnitt: 70 min min
Status: AVSLUTAD
The best-known work of celebrated TV dramatist Dennis Potter, The Singing Detective is actually the second of a trilogy of series by Potter using the device of lip-synching to well-known recordings of popular music. The first, set in the 1930s, was Pennies from Heaven (1978), the third, set during the 1956 Suez Crisis, was Lipstick on Your Collar (1993). The Singing Detective focusses musically on the 1940s. (Much earlier, Potter had briefly used lip-synching in his 1969 play for ITV,... (TheTVDB)
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Skin
1986-11-16
Skin
1986-11-16
Philip Marlow is a man divested of all his dignity. After twenty years of suffering, his psoriatic arthritis has erupted to such an extent that he can no longer move without excruciating pain, his skin is covered in hideous pustules, and his out-of-control body temperature sometimes causes...
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Heat
1986-11-23
Heat
1986-11-23
Philip, much against his better judgment, is wheeled in to visit Dr. Gibbon, the staff psychiatrist, who has gone to the trouble of rooting out a copy of one of Marlows detective books, titled The Singing Detective. The interview is not productive, seemingly, and the porter wheels Marlow back to...
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Lovely Days
1986-11-30
Lovely Days
1986-11-30
The aged-10 Philip and his mother relocate to London to live with Bet Marlows father, Grandad Baxter.At the hospital, Dr. Gibbon surprises Philip with the knowledge of his severe headaches, which Philip doesnt think anyone knows of (but Gibbon has been consulted by Philips ex-wife, Nicola). Dr....
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Clues
1986-12-07
Clues
1986-12-07
Under Hammersmith Bridge, the police remove Lilis body from the scene of her murder. Philip recalls the gramophone in his grandads Hammersmith house, and being made fun of for his West Country accent. A quick wise-crack from the Singing Detective takes us back to the treetop in the Forest of Dean,...
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Pitter Patter
1986-12-14
Pitter Patter
1986-12-14
Outside the Laguna club it pours rain; inside, the Two Mysterious Men watch Marlows show.In hospital, Mr. Hall asks Reginald about his book. Its a mystery, set in a club, with spies--Nazis and the like. Its called The Singing Detective, by P. E. Marlow.Back in the story, the shorter Mysterious Man...
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Who Done It
1986-12-21
Who Done It
1986-12-21
As Doctor Gibbon coaxes him into revealing more and more of his deeply hidden traumas, Philips various fictions increasingly merge and intertwine. Some of his characters are not at all happy with him and seek him out to exact retribution. Eventually they reach his present self in the hospital ward...
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