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The Singing Detective

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Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music. Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future. His memories, his 1930s-style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.

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Philip Marlow	Michael Gambon
Mark Binney	Patrick Malahide
Nurse Mills	Joanne Whalley
Staff Nurse White	Imelda Staunton
Mr Tomkey	Leslie French
Writer	Dennis Potter
Director	Jon Amiel

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