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The Singing Detective

Episode 5: Pitter Patter

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: Sun 14^th Dec 1986, 21:25 on BBC One WestLatest broadcast: Fri 29^th Dec 2023, 00:15 on BBC Four

Available for 6 months

Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place. Show less

Contributors

Philip Marlow:: Michael Gambon
Binney/Finney/Raymond:: Patrick Malahide
Nurse Mills:: Joanne Whalley
Mr Tomkey:: Leslie French
Writer:: Dennis Potter
Director:: Jon Amiel
Producer:: Kenith Trodd
Nicola:: Janet Suzman
Mrs Marlow:: Alison Steadman
Mr Hall:: David Ryall
Reginald:: Gerard Horan
Mr Marlow:: Jim Carter
First Mysterious Man:: Ron Cook
Second Mysterious Man:: George Rossi
Staff Nurse White:: Imelda Staunton
Schoolteacher:: Janet Henfrey
Young Philip:: Lyndon Davies
Sonia:: Kate McKenzie
Dr Gibbon:: Bill Paterson
Dance hall drummer:: John Sheraton
Mark Binney:: William Speakman

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The Singing Detective

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