Channel 4 · Ended

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Comedy, Horror, Science-Fiction · 2004 · Rated 7.9/10

Last aired: S1 E6, The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth · 2004-03-04

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is the brainchild of celebrated horror writer and self-styled "fabulist" Garth Marenghi, author of such genre classics as Afterbirth (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) and Crab! ("One of the three best horror books about crabs I've ever read" - Hard Gore Magazine). Back in the 1980s, he branched out into television production, writing and starring in a series so radical, so scary and so downright crazy that when the bosses of Channel 4 saw what they had on their hands, they ran away screaming, like little girls. Only now, twenty years on and amid the worst programming drought in television history, have the station finally allowed the show on the air. Intercut with new interviews with Marenghi himself and his co-stars Dean Learner and Todd Rivers, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is perhaps the most disturbing vision of hospital life ever broadcast.

Cast

Matthew Holness Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D.

Richard Ayoade Dean Learner / Thornton Reed

Matt Berry Todd Rivers / Dr. Lucien Sanchez

Alice Lowe Liz Asher

Season 1

E1 Once Upon A Beginning 2004-01-29 · 25 min New doctor Liz Asher arrives at Darkplace Hospital, where a mysterious cat portends disaster. Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D., must act in time to prevent unspeakable evil from leaking out from a portal to Hellmouth under Darkplace Hospital.

E2 Hell Hath Fury 2004-02-05 · 25 min At Darkplace Hospital lunch is delayed and objects begin flying around. At first suspicion falls on the hospital's temporary clerical assistant, but Dagless is determined to find out the truth.

E3 Skipper the Eyechild 2004-02-12 · 25 min Somewhere on the wards of Darkplace Hospital, a man gives birth to a giant eyeball which brings out paternal instincts in Dagless, still grieving for the loss of his half-human, half-grasshopper son. However, the eyeball could be a potential killer.

E4 The Apes of Wrath 2004-02-19 · 25 min A mysterious illness spreads like a particularly virulent disease through the wards of Darkplace, causing doctors and patients to revert to an earlier genetic state. Dagless must stop it before he becomes a primate.

E5 Scotch Mist 2004-02-26 · 25 min A Scottish mist descends on Darkplace and Dagless has to act fast to prevent all the English people in the hospital from grave danger.

E6 The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth 2004-03-04 · 25 min Dr Sanchez's life is in danger from a patient with a fairly bad cosmic broccoli infection. It's down to Dr Rick Dagless, MD to save his buddy - and the world. Or if all else fails, come up with a delicious way of using excess broccoli. It won't come to that, though.

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