Season 1
(1986)
Cast
as Philip Marlow
as Mr. Marlow
as Mark Binney
as Mrs. Marlow
as Nicola
as Nurse Mills
as Staff Nurse White
as Mr. Hall
as First Mysterious Man
as Second Mysterious Man
as Schoolteacher
as Dr. Finlay
as Second Soldier
Episodes
Skin 9.0
November 16, 1986
Pulp thriller writer Philip Marlow is in hospital with the skin complaint psoriasis, tormented by his past and threaten…
Heat 8.0
November 23, 1986
Dennis Potter's drama about a patient struggling to keep his sanity, with the help of his alter ego, the singing privat…
Lovely Days 9.0
November 30, 1986
While in hospital with psoriasis, Marlow thinks back to the war when he was a little boy, and remembers seeing his moth…
Clues 0.0
December 7, 1986
Marlow as a child visits London, but is not impressed. A film option on Marlow's novel thickens the plot. His memories,…
Pitter Patter 0.0
December 14, 1986
Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.
Who Done It 0.0
December 21, 1986
The young Philip Marlow returns to the country railway station following his mother's death in London. Forty years on, …