The Singing Detective
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11/16/1986Runtime
6 eps, 420 minsOverview
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.
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A feverish plunge into a mystery writer's fractured psyche, where hospital reality and 1940s noir fantasies bleed into each other in a delirious, darkly funny spiral. The surrealism is constant and the tone shifts wildly, but underneath is real pain and the question of who we are when our body betrays us.
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Heads up
Michael Gambon
Philip Marlow
Joanne Whalley
Nurse Mills
David Ryall
Mr Hall
Sharon D. Clarke
Night Nurse
Gerard Horan
Reginald
Ron Cook
First Mysterious Man
George Rossi
Second Mysterious Man
Patrick Malahide
Mark Binney / Raymond
Patrick Malahide
Mark Binney / Mark Finney
Patrick Malahide
Mark Binney / Raymond / Mark Finney
Leslie French
Mr Tomkey
Leslie French
Noddy Tomkey
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