Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future. His memories,...
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 c...
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 Fo...
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 ...
Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
The young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mother's death in London. Forty years on, Marlow the hospital patient sti...
Excerpts from 1986 BBC feedback programmes with viewers' comments on the Singing Detective episodes
Reflecting on the life and work of Dennis Potter, the playwright and screenwriter, who drew on his own emotional fixations to invest his work with pow...
1987 Arena episode excerpts relevant to the Singing Detective, where Alan Yentob interviews TV dramatist Dennis Potter about his work through the year...
Alison Steadman looks back at Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective, hailed as one of the most important and influential TV dramas ever made, and once...
