The Singing Detective

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The Singing Detective: Episode 6: Who Done It

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Episode 6: Who Done It

Who Done It

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Marlow still dreams about the homecoming and the frightening figure of the scarecrow.

In the final part of Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music, as fiction and fact fight for the same space, the plots and narratives head to their conclusions.

The young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mother's 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.

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A pulp thriller writer relives his stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

Dennis Potter's classic drama serial with music, about a pulp thriller writer whose memories, 1930s-style gumshoe fiction and debilitating skin disease weave him an altered reality.

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