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  1. What a captivating final episode, it's all I hoped for and more. Some of the content is amazing, there's even a dig at Rupert Murdoch, this truly was The BBC at its very best. The fusion of real life and fantasy works to perfection.

  2. Nov 7, 2003 · The Singing Detective” is a movie about a man who has been failed by science and drugs and turns in desperation to his mind, seeking temporary insanity as a release. His sharp intelligence is an asset.

  3. Feb 24, 2012 · One way to measure just how far ahead of its time Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective was, in 1986, is to read the reviews by British critics today, confronted by the decades-old musical...

  4. Looked at today, after nearly 30 years of increasingly slick and anodyne all-film drama on television, The Singing Detective inevitably seems dated, but no more so than such contemporaneous movies as Videodrome and Blue Velvet.

  5. Oct 24, 2003 · R. 1h 49m. By A. O. Scott. Oct. 24, 2003. ''The Singing Detective,'' Dennis Potter's 1986 mini-series, is the kind of television production that justifies the existence of the medium -- a...

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  6. Who Done It: Directed by Jon Amiel. With Michael Gambon, Janet Suzman, Patrick Malahide, Alison Steadman. In the final episode of the series, memories of Marlow's childhood, his dreams and the events in his re-imagined novel collide with present day reality.

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  8. For those who don't know, 'The Singing Detective' is an offbeat musical about a writer in hospital, that weaves effortlessly his present experiences, his past fictions, his paranoid imaginings and, above all else, the memories of a childhood that to this day still dominates his life.

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