Season 1

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  8.0/10183 votes

  Skin

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/16/1986

  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.

  Director: Jon Amiel

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  8.0/10146 votes

  Heat

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/23/1986

  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.

  Director: Jon Amiel

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.7/10127 votes

  Lovely Days

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/30/1986

  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.

  Director: Jon Amiel

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.8/10112 votes

  Clues

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/7/1986

  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.

  Director: Jon Amiel

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  7.9/10111 votes

  Pitter Patter

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/14/1986

  Marlow is getting better and the different strands of his fiction and reality begin to occupy the same time and place.

  Director: Jon Amiel

  Writer: Dennis Potter

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  8.0/10113 votes

  Who Done It

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/21/1986

  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.

  Director: Jon Amiel

  Writer: Dennis Potter