The Singing Detective (1986)
8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired Nov 16, 1986

The masterpiece, and the best place to start. Six episodes on BBC1 on Sunday nights in late 1986, with Michael Gambon as Philip Marlow, a blocked mystery writer stuck in a hospital bed with acute psoriatic arthropathy, the skin and joint disease Potter himself lived with. Marlow's fevered mind…

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