The Singing Detective

Dennis Potters drama about a patient struggling to keep his sanity, with the help of his alter ego, the singing private eye. Marlow faces a talking cure with a psychologist.

Marlow as a child visits London, but is not impressed. A film option on Marlows novel thickens the plot. His memories, his 30s style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.

The young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mothers death in London. Forty years on, Marlow the hospital patient still dreams about the homecoming and the frightening figure of the scarecrow that now erupts into the ward.