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Singing detective (Television program)

Incapacitated both physically and emotionally and trapped in his hospital bed, detective novel writer Philip Marlow escapes into his imagination, plotting out a murder tale in which he is both a big-band singer and a private eye.

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  • "Michael Gambon in The singing detective"
  • "Dennis Potter's the singing detective"

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  • "Incapacitated both physically and emotionally and trapped in his hospital bed, detective novel writer Philip Marlow escapes into his imagination, plotting out a murder tale in which he is both a big-band singer and a private eye."@en
  • "Wracked by a terrible skin disease, the unsuccessful writer Philip Marlow looks cynically back on life from his bed in a busy National Health hospital, fantasizing himself into one of his own pulp thrillers as a crooning 40s detective enmeshed in a baffling murder case. But memories of his wartime childhood keep intruding--as do classic songs of the 40s. Unwillingly, Marlow agrees to talk to a psychotherapist--and slowly, the clues begin to add up. But to what?"
  • "The story of Philip Marlow, a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder whose hallucinations interweave memories of his past with the murder mystery in his book."
  • "A mystery writer relives his stories through hallucinations while bedridden in the hospital."@en
  • "The hallucinations of a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder interweave memories of his past with a plot casting him in the role of a suave sleuth who croons with a big band."@en
  • "The hallucinations of a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder interweave memories of his past with a plot casting him in the role of a suave sleuth who croons with a big band."
  • "Dennis Potter's award-winning, visionary masterpiece, a compelling musically-driven murder mystery set to a big band beat."@en
  • "Dennis Potter's award-winning series. Michael Gambon stars as the unsuccessful writer who, whilst lying in a hospital bed suffering from a very bad case of psoriasis, escapes from his misery by 'dreaming' about one of his own pulp thrillers along with some of his childhood memories. A mixture of fantasy, reality and hit songs from the 1940s."@en
  • "Un écrivain, rongé par une lente maladie du cerveau, ne peut trouver la guérison qu'en s'immergeant dans un monde imaginaire qu'il a créé pour les besoins de l'un de ses ouvrages."
  • "1st tape : Wracked by a terrible skin disease, the unsuccessful writer Philip Marlow looks cynically back on life from his bed in a busy hospital, fantasising himself into one of his own pulp thrillers as a crooning '40s detective enmeshed in a baffling murder case. 2nd tape : Slowly recovering from the disease, he continues to unravel the traumas of his wartime boyhood while working through the plot of his story."@en
  • "A writer is plagued by a skin disease which forces him to be hospitalised. Fantasies allow him to assume the role of a 1940's detective as he looks back on his life from his hospital bed."
  • "Detective novelist Philip Marlow is hospitalized with the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. He begins to hallucinate about episodes from his own life and from his early novel, The Singing Detective. As these episodes surface in his mind, Marlow's voyage of self-discovery provides a key to conquering his illness."
  • "Incapacitated both physically and emotionally and trapped in his hospital bed, detective novel writer Philip Marlow escapes into his imagination, plotting out a murder tale in which he is both a big-band singer and a private eye. As fantasy and reality merge into one, his excruciating pain plays with the memories of a tormented childhood and sexual treachery in a tortuous session of self-analysis and personal discovery."

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  • "Private eye films and programs"
  • "Minisèries (Televisió)"
  • "Television musicals"@en
  • "Detective and mystery television program"@en
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Fantasy"
  • "Detective and mystery television programs"@en
  • "Mini-series"
  • "Television mini-series"@en
  • "Musicals (Televisió)"
  • "Mystery"@en
  • "Musicals"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Adaptation"@en
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Drama"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Films (Televisió)"
  • "Fiction television programs"@en
  • "Musical films"@en
  • "Television adaptations"@en
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery television programs"@en

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  • "Singing detective (Television program)"@en
  • "The Singing detective"@en
  • "The Singing detective"
  • "The Singing Detective ***"
  • "Singing detective (Programa televisiu)"
  • "The singing detective"@en
  • "The singing detective"

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