The Singing Detective Author:Dennis Potter The screenplay for the British television mystery about a writer hospitalized for painful skin condition whose hallucinations let him live in his fiction. — The unabridged text of the widely acclaimed television series — "The man is just about immobilized in a London hospital ward, his skin covered with psoriasis sores, his joints crippled by... more » arthritis. he feverishly drifts between present and past, jumbling the facts of his life with the cheap fiction of his detective novels. He and the other characters periodically break into song, bizarrely miming the words from old 1940's recordings featuring everybody from Bing Crosby to Dick Haymes. We are, as some of you may already know, in the decidedly odd yet extraordinarily compelling world of Dennis Potter's Singing Detective." --John J. O'Connor, The New York Times« less