The Singing Detective

...trade test transmissions and, from May 1983, Pages From Ceefax. 16 November - Dennis Potter's critically acclaimed television serial The Singing Detective makes its debut on BBC1 . 7 December - Jack Rosenthal's original two hour TV...

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The Singing Detective is a critically acclaimed BBC television serial, written by Dennis Potter, starring Michael Gambon. Jon Amiel directed. The episodes were "Skin", "Heat", "Lovely Days", "Clues", "Pitter Patter", and "Who Done It".

In this article: Dennis Potter, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler, Jon Amiel, Dick Powell, Peabody Award, and DVD

...are officially over. However, on this night, they were the deserved headliners. The band's name reportedly comes from the BBC mini-series "The Singing Detective," in which Philip Marlow believes the word "elbow" to be the most sensuous word...

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...features adults playing children, and the lip-sync device Potter used in his 'serials with songs' Pennies from Heaven '' (1978) and ''The Singing Detective (1986). The finale of the video also takes several visual cues from the "Dry Bones"...

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...film and TV credits in his career, predominantly as a character actor. Roles of note include Philip Marlow in the mid-`80s BBC series "The Singing Detective" and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1997's "The Gambler." Others include Robert Altman's...

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...marital home. But for most of the past decade, the rumpled, chain-smoking actor who came to fame in the mid-Eighties starring in TV s The Singing Detective has maintained a parallel relationship with a film designer 25 years his junior,...

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...tapping around swankly in a top hat and tails while crooning the cheery sentiment, "How lovely it is to be a vegetable." What is this? "The Singing Detective"? The aforementioned Michael Gambon minseries, by the way, is another nominee for...

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...sung by the defiantly un-musical Gandolfini, accompanied by a chorus of dancing garbagemen. The influence is said to be Dennis Potter ("The Singing Detective"), but I thought of Woody Allen's dismal anti-musical "Everyone Says I Love You" or...

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...sidewalk is just another day's work.) There have been other memorable leaps forward: Dennis Potter's visionary 1986 television series "The Singing Detective," starring Michael Gambon, was a watershed in bringing new seriousness to a genre...

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Raymond Chandler by way of Dante and Busby Berkeley may begin to describe the sensibility of "The Singing Detective," Keith Gordon's ambitious, ultimately superfluous adaptation of Dennis Potter's 1986 television series. A hallucinatory...

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