Tema: The Singing Detective / El detective cantante (Miniserie BBC, 1986)

The Singing Detective

UK | BBC | 1986 | 392' (6 episodios) | Drama musical surreal de hospital
Director: Jon Amiel
Guión: Dennis Potter
Reparto:Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Alison Steadman, Jim Carter, Imelda Staunton

Edita: 2Entertain Video / BBC
¿A cuánto?: anda por £8.97
Video: 1.33:1 4/3 PAL
Audio: Inglés dolby digital mono
Subtítulos: Inglés SDH, sólo para la serie, incluyendo las letras de las canciones
Extras: (no subtitulados)
Audiocomentarios de Jon Amiel (director) y Kenith Trodd (productor) en todos los episodios
Arena: Dennis Potter (10') [entrevista]
Close up: Dennis Potter - Under the Skin (40') [pieza sobre la vida y la obra de Potter]
Points of View (5') [programa de TV de la época donde se comentan las cartas de los espectadores opinando sobre la serie, clavadito a las parodías que hacían en Monty Python's Flying Circus]
Galería de fotos
Filmografías
Edición: 2xDVD9 (serie) + 1xDVD5 (extras) en una caja amaray gorda. Regíón 2 y 4.

#20 en BFI TV 100
#7 en The Guardian's top 50 television dramas of all time

A crime writer, Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon), lies in a hospital bed, overcome by a terrible skin disease and fever. What has he done to deserve such betrayal – by his own body, by the traumas of his troubled past? And by the doctors who break into popular songs of the 40s? Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones . . . While the novelist looks into his past, a psychiatrist looks into his head, and the writer's creation, a detective also called Philip Marlow, looks into a murder. Dennis Potter's semi-autobiographical work, probably his finest, pushed boundaries. And hell yes, it's complicated. There are three strands, but they don't intertwine neatly. It's so knotted and gnarled that even the characters don't know where they are or which story they're in. But somehow it doesn't matter when you're lost. It still manages to amuse, appal, surprise and delight. And it looks remarkably modern, even 24 years on. SW

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Comentarios: Serie emitida por las autonómicas en los albores del pleistoceno, cuándo aún se emitían series británicas de calidad (o sin calidad,da igual) en Hispania. Ignoro si se llegó a emitir por algún canal castellanoparlante. Decente calidad audiovisual, dadas las limitaciones del formato video + 16mm que utilizaba la BBC de aquella. Cameo podría sacarla.