The Singing Detective

Season 1 - The Singing Detective

• Season 1 Episode 6: Who Done It Dr Gibbon coaxes Philip into revealing more about his childhood traumas, leading his various fictions and memories to intertwine. The characters become angry, and seek retribution on their creator while the sinister figure of the scarecrow stalks the wards. Last in series
• Season 1 Episode 5: Pitter Patter As the detective story unfolds, the private eye pursues two mysterious men into the night after a shooting. Later in the real world, Marlow is surprised to see the same two men on the ward - who then take flight in exactly the same manner. Nicola and Mark continue their plan to defraud the writer, and another round of word association with Dr Gibbon dredges up further childhood memories, including a violent confrontation with his mother
• Season 1 Episode 4: Clues 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. Part of the Potter at the BBC season
• Season 1 Episode 3: Lovely Days Marlow is tortured by the memories of his childhood, and experiences vivid hallucinations in which his mother appears masquerading as a blonde called Lili on the streets of London, and when one of the patients dies of a heart attack he struggles to contain his true feelings. Part of the Potter at the BBC season
• Season 1 Episode 2: Heat Marlow takes solace in the refuge provided by his vivid imagination. When his ex-wife appears on the ward just as he was thinking about her his vulnerability is exposed
• Season 1 Episode 1: Skin Another chance to see Dennis Potter's seminal six-part serial. Michael Gambon stars as a novelist who, while lying in hospital, mentally assumes the role of a character from one of his books. With Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley and Imelda Staunton