The Singing Detective Jon Amiel 1986 Australia/UK (1st time; DVD) Bedridden in hospital with a debilitating skin disease, a writer of detective fiction with a debilitating skin disease reimagines his most famous story and relives his childhood. The kind of genre-bending, tantalising final product a writer might dream of completing, this TV mini-series is about as fresh, energetic, and mature as you can possibly get, with nothing else in the medium coming close to its sophisticated intertextuality. Endlessly fascinating, with a powerful emotional undercurrent racing along beneath every sharp slice of dialogue. The acting is fantastic, the material highly original, the pacing perfect, and the whole thing is at once accessible and convoluted, ambitious and modest, and it's quite unlike anything made before or since.
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