The Singing Detective | Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide

The Singing Detective | Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide | Excellent TV

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The Singing Detective

	The Singing Detective Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide BBC Warner, 2003 average customer review:based on 90 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A gripping murder mystery. A lavish musical. An intense psychological thriller. A warped romance. Dennis Potter's legendary award-winning mini-series is all this and more. Hailed by the Chicago Sun Times as "The greatest production in the history of television" this genre-deying masterpiece is soon to be a major motion picture starring Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson.Running Time: 415 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating: NR UPC: 794051169921

The Best Thing You'll ever watch

Some have suggested that "The Singing Detective" is the greatest production ever done for television; I could not even suggest a close number two!
I originally was inspired to look at The Singing Detective because I enjoyed the "Maigret" series so much. I thought that TSD was in somewhat the same jaundra. Well, I was plesently surprised. It's not a `Mystery' but a psychodrama of the highest caliber.
A gripping plot, much of it autobiographical to Dennis Potter this IS the best thing that has ever been on television!

Wouldn't it be nice if television aspired to all the crafts that brought us "The Singing Detective". Find out what you've been missing.

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Excellent TV

This is the series that almost made me buy a TV. While I still don't have a TV, I'm delighted to be able to rewatch this excellent series on my computer.

Original BBC Series: The Singing Detective

This is magical work. It reeks of originality & excellence. British humor has its own reason for being. Michael Gambon is just flat superb! The original writer Potter is no longer with us - what a pity! It is a combo of suspense, wit, pathos all rolled into one. I did not see the movie with Robert Downey Jr. I could not bear to make a comparison to this gem of a production.

The offkey singing detective

Their is nothing I enjoy more then British movies and TV series. I guess
I am a true anglophle when it comes to their excellent entertainment and unusual productions. The Singing Detective meets both of these criteria, but with a lot of difficulity in figuring out what the hell he was trying to convey in his misery and to what purpose. I didn't understand a hell of a lot until the very end of the film, but it was still entertaining in it's unusualness to keep my interest because that's what the Brit's can do so well. Go for it and be ready to scratch your noggen enough for your hair to fall out.

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