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# The Singing Detective [1986] [DVD]

**Brand:** michael gambonpatrick malahidejon amiel
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The Singing Detective [1986] [DVD]

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Still amazing after all these years
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2018*

I saw this all those years ago when it was shown on the BBC - I think it was 1986. I remembered it being mind boggingly good and something everyone at work discussed around the ‘water fountain’ on Monday morning. I was talking to my 18 year old son and defending British TV series over American ones, and arguing that TV series ‘in my day’ were the best. He offered up The Wire, Breaking Bad and Six Feet Under to defend his case. I spoke of The Singing Detective but wondered if the years had faded my memory and I would now find it dated. So with a worry that it would not stand up, I bought it and sat down to watch it with said son and hubby.Oh boy, it’s even better than I remembered, if that’s possible. It’s soo good that you can’t binge watch it (another little habit that is beloved of my son’s generation). We have been watching an episode a week as intended and discussing it in between. It’s like sampling the caviar of TV, the flavour is too intense for one sitting. My son loves it and finds the 4 different timelines clever and intriguing. He said it was a superb example of a meta-narrative which he wished tv would do more, but said that it’s something that can so easily go wrong, most writers don’t attempt it. Apparently a meta narrative is, if I understood him correctly, a narrative that shows how the writing process develops to reveal the story that you the viewer are now watching. Anyway, he’s now busy showing it to all his friends and a new generation is discovering what we always knew- the genius that is Dennis Potter. Why the BBC didn’t reshow this for the 25th or 30th anniversary I’ll never know.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    “Let’s be economical, nothing fancy….” [Opening narration]
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 July 2016*

This ground-breaking 1986, made for Tv BBC surreal musical drama follows Mystery writer Philip E. Marlow who is suffering writer's block while hospitalised due to his chronic skin and joint disease. As a result of constant pain, fever and his refusal to take medication, Marlow falls in and out of three worlds; the hospital, the fantasy Chandleresque noir thriller, and his childhood in wartime England, the three often influencing events in the others.Full of 1940’s era music, great dance routines, comedy, tragedy, dark themes, constant plot dreaming re-imaginings, seedy clubs, naughty ladies, shady guys, this has it all. Full of dry, dead-pan, cynical tongue-in-cheek humour designed to raise a smile, brilliant one liners abound [“I’m not as cheap as I look!” Marlow] but this is one tale where everything slots together perfectly, acting, photography, dialogue, music, even the profanity adds to the scenes as it all builds to show how the three threads are all entwined as one.The six episodes are spread over three discs, the first 2 holding 3 episodes each and offering play, scene selection, commentary [on/off] and subtitles [English on/off]. The third disc has the extras being point of view, close up of Dennis Potter, photo gallery [about 30 pics], arena:Dennis Potter [a ten minute interview] and filmographies. Rated 15 with plenty of mild language this gained notoriety at the time for depicting a lead character suffering from psoriatic arthropathy, cleverly avoided nudity, racism [often reflecting the politics of the day], sexism and most other ’isms as well as constant references to suicide, and of course a young Joanne Whaley in a nurses uniform greasing up our hero [which is as funny as it is tragic]. The hospital ‘bedside’ scenes still hold true today and of course it could never be made now and for that reason gets a +*. Worth buying just for the ‘Dry Bones’ routine –excellent.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Excellent service.Great VFM.
  

*by R***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 November 2023*

Been meaning to update my copy for some time. Couldn't resist nice price! Video replacement therapy 😀. Potter's best work. Gambon is brilliant!!

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