"The Singing Detective" TV Intro
In tribute to the great Irish-English actor Michael Gambon, who died this week at age 82, here’s the introduction to his six-episode, 1986 BBC-TV series, “The Singing Detective,” written by Dennis Potter. The Thrilling Detective Web site reminds us of that show’s plot: “Dennis Potter’s complex, sprawling, masterful, emotionally-charged multi-layered miniseries remains one of the most intelligent explorations of creativity, memory and the human condition I’ve ever seen in the mystery — or any — genre. Philip E. Marlow (notice there’s no ‘E’ in Marlowe) was once a moderately successful British detective story writer, but now he’s a long-term patient in a hospital bed, covered in the scales and sores of the psoriasis that has crippled him, racked with pain and guilt and paranoia, and prone to hallucinations, as he tries to sort out his life, past and present, and mentally rework his best known novel, ‘The Singing Detective.’” https://thrillingdetective.com/2019/04/28/...