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1. • • Blurring the line between reality and fiction, the narrative unfolds in several parallel worlds, with the noir-inspired detective story interwoven with Marlow's real-life struggles in hospital, his own childhood and a variety of incidents in his life over which he feels the guilt.
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   Is the Singing Detective based on a true story?

   • The Singing Detective is a 2003 American musical crime comedy film directed by Keith Gordon and loosely based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work by British writer Dennis Potter.

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   How many episodes are in the Singing Detective?

   • The Singing Detective is a six-part BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon and directed by Jon Amiel. Its six episodes are "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter" and "Who Done It".

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   Is 'the Singing Detective' still on TV?

   • “Stunning new serial,” wrote The Guardian. Those of a certain age may be disconcerted to learn it has been three full decades since The Singing Detective, the six-part drama by Dennis Potter, was first shown on British television on Sunday nights at 9pm. It still frequently features in “ greatest-ever TV ” polls.

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   Who made the Singing Detective?

   • One of the greatest TV series ever Directed by Jon Amiel and produced for the BBC by Kenith Trodd and John Harris, The Singing Detective was, by any measure, an unusual and complex series.

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   Did Dennis Potter really write 'the Singing Detective'?

   • More than 20 years after Potter’s untimely death at the age of 59, it is hard to find anything on British TV today that is truly the artistic peer of The Singing Detective. Dennis Potter’s 1986 story of a writer in need of psychological renewal rewrote the TV drama rulebook.

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   Is 'the Singing Detective' a good movie?

   • Critics have praised the complexity of its storytelling and the narrative’s fluid shifts between past and present. Here, then, is a legacy of The Singing Detective. Potter’s experiments 30 years ago with interweaving narratives and timelines have become part of the accepted grammar of television drama today.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Singing_DetectiveThe Singing Detective - Wikipedia

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   The Singing Detective is a six-part BBC television serial drama, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon and directed by Jon Amiel. Its six episodes are "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter" and "Who Done It".

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   Oct 4, 2023 · Blurring the line between reality and fiction, the narrative unfolds in several parallel worlds, with the noir-inspired detective story interwoven with Marlow's real-life struggles in...

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   Nov 21, 2016 · What elevates The Singing Detective is the way in which these threads gradually intersect: individuals from Marlow’s childhood memories appear in his pulp detective fantasy; characters from...

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   The Singing Detective arrived in the middle of a decade dominated by naturalism – Brideshead Revisited, Jewel in the Crown, A Kind of Loving, The Beiderbecke Affair, Fortunes of War, Boys From the Blackstuff, The Monocled Mutineer. But non-naturalism lingered as a tendency.

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   The Singing Detective is a 2003 American musical crime comedy film directed by Keith Gordon and loosely based on the BBC serial of the same name, a work by British writer Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey Jr. and features a supporting cast that includes Katie Holmes , Adrien Brody , Robin Wright Penn , Mel Gibson , Jeremy Northam and Carla ...

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   May 21, 2017 · Classic TV Revisited: The Singing Detective. Highly complex musical drama by Dennis Potter which was part autobiographical. A unique TV offering, compellingly brilliant to some but hugely confusing to many viewers. Originally airing on BBC One in 1986 and starring Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Bill Paterson, Janet Suzman ...

10. www.imdb.com › title › tt0090521The Singing Detective (TV Mini Series 1986) - IMDb

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    The Singing Detective: With Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, David Ryall. Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.