The BEST episodes directed by Dennis Potter
#1 - Between Two Rivers
BBC Documentaries - Season 1960 - Episode 1
After a brief tutelage with innovative BBC documentary producer Denis Mitchell, Dennis Potter teamed with producer Anthony de Lotbiniere to film a documentary (later described by David Niven as "absolutely wonderful"). Returning to the Berry Hill roots of his childhood, Potter used interviews with locals (including his parents) to show changes in the working-class traditions of the Forest of Dean, where "the green forest has a deep black heart beneath its sudden hills, pushing up slag heaps and grey little villages clustering around the coal."
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#2 - Heat
The Singing Detective - Season 1 - Episode 2
Dennis Potter's 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.
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#3 - Lovely Days
The Singing Detective - Season 1 - Episode 3
While in hospital with psoriasis, Marlow thinks back to the war when he was a little boy, and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex in the Forest of Dean. His memories, his 30s style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.
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#4 - Pitter Patter
The Singing Detective - Season 1 - Episode 5
Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
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#5 - Who Done It
The Singing Detective - Season 1 - Episode 6
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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#6 - Clues
The Singing Detective - Season 1 - Episode 4
Marlow as a child visits London, but is not impressed. A film option on Marlow's novel thickens the plot. His memories, his 30s style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.
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#7 - Skin
The Singing Detective - Season 1 - Episode 1
Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threatened by his future. His memories, his 1930s-style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.
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