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The Singing Detective (1986–1986) — drama · crime on BBC One

The answer: Concluded December 21, 1986.
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Genre
Drama · Crime
Network / streamer
BBC One
Premiered
November 16, 1986
Ended
December 21, 1986
Runtime
~70 min per episode
1season
6episodes

About The Singing Detective

The Singing Detective was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 in 1986 on Sunday nights from 16 November to 21 December with later PBS and cable television showings in the United States. Mystery writer Philip E. Marlow is suffering writer's block and is hospitalised because his psoriatic arthropathy, a chronic skin and joint disease, is at an acute stage forming lesions and sores over his entire body, and partially cripples his hands and feet. As a result of constant pain, a fever caused by the condition, and his refusal to take medication, Marlow falls into a fantasy world involving his Chandleresque novel, The Singing Detective, an escapist adventure about a detective (also named "Philip Marlow") who sings at a dance hall and takes the jobs "the guys who don't sing" won't take.

The Singing Detective episode schedule

6 aired

Aired · 6

DateEp.Title
December 21, 1986 S1·E6 Who Done It
December 14, 1986 S1·E5 Pitter Patter
December 7, 1986 S1·E4 Clues
November 30, 1986 S1·E3 Lovely Days
November 23, 1986 S1·E2 Heat
November 16, 1986 S1·E1 Skin

The Singing Detective cast