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Billy Brown
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
FROM THE BEST-SELLING MASTER OF DARKNESS
Overview
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?
Key Crew
Producer: Charlie Hanson
Top Cast
Matthew Holness
Garth Marenghi / Dr. Rick Dagless M.D.
Matt Berry
Todd Rivers / Dr. Lucien Sanchez
Richard Ayoade
Dean Learner / Thornton Reed
Alice Lowe
Madeleine Wool / Liz Asher
Seasons
Season 0 ()
No overview available.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Darkplace Illuminatum
Marenghi, Learner and Rivers recorded over 200 hours of interviews prior to the 2004 re-release of Darkplace. What follows is a selection of the least angry.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 2: The One Scene I Cut
Marenghi saw cutting any scene as an admission of weakness. Several episodes of Darkplace were never broadcast because running times would regularly exceed the 9 hour mark. However, it seems that this next sequence was originally intended for inclusion within the 'Scotch Mist' episode.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 3: Easter Egg
A set of videos hidden on the DVD release. The first is a video of Learner introducing "Channel Ladykiss", followed by a video of a Darkplace patient frantically reading Marenghi's novels, followed by a hidden interview with Todd Rivers discussing method acting.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 4: Misc. Horrificata Illuminata
Although the following interviews were conducted for the re-release of Darkplace, the respondents' propensity to rant about completely unrelated subjects meant that they were not included in the final shows. However, they form a fascinating insight in to the Mind Marenghi.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 5: Pam's Home Movies
Garth's wife, Pam, was regularly on set to make sure that the writer had his morning pie on time. She also brought her film camera, and the following footage paints a delightfully off-guard portrait of the Great Imaginer.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 6: My Storyboards
Marenghi meticulously planned each spectacular sequence of the show on the back of his breakfast napkin. These storyboards are a testament to the Splattermeister's visual artistry. What follows is a selection of the cleanest.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 7: Test Footage
Many will not know that Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was shot twice. 43 episodes had been recorded when Dean Learner decided that he didn't like his hair style and demanded everything be re-filmed. All of this material was thought lost until this scene was uncovered in a routine customs and excise investigation at Learner's London mansion.
Runtime: 30 minEpisode 8: One Track Lover - Extended Single
Episode 9: Darkplace Theme
Episode 10: Darkplace Moodscape I
Episode 11: Darkplace Moodscape II
Episode 12: Darkplace Moodscape III
Episode 13: Lost Audio Deleted Scene
The sound to this footage has been lost.
Runtime: N/A min
Season 1 (2004)
No overview available.
6 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Once Upon a Beginning
2004-01-29New doctor Liz Asher is tipped off by a psychic cat that evil lurks in the cooridors of Darkplace. When a patient mysteriously dies, Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. must scalpel-up and close a standard-sized hell-mouth beneath Romford. Contains mild swearing and the naked top-half of a man.
Runtime: 24 minEpisode 2: Hell Hath Fury
2004-02-05The hospital chef is savagely attacked by a ladle and then a fork. Who or what threw one or both of them? And why are objects flying about of their own accord, attacking innocent civillians and disrupting hospital procedure? Meanwhile Dagless has his own problems with a suspicious-looking temp with an attitude problem.
Runtime: 24 minEpisode 3: Skipper the Eyechild
2004-02-12The past is stirring in the halls of Darkplace, and for Dr. Rick Dagless M.D., that means Trouble. With a capital T (the rest of the letters lowercase). A giant eye has been born on 'B' Wing. Winner of the Prix de L'Oeil International Opticians' Television Award for Best New Drama.
Runtime: 24 minEpisode 4: The Apes of Wrath
2004-02-19Monkey business most macabre. A terrible sickness is spreading from ward to ward as humans regress to a primal state. Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. must kill the beast within us, and fast. i.e. before it's too late.
Runtime: 24 minEpisode 5: Scotch Mist
2004-02-26A lethal mist surrounds Darkplace, tartanning the hides of unwary travellers, while phantom bagpipes play on regardless. Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. must face more than the music as he unravels the secret behind its sudden appearance. The truth, when it comes, lies as a little too close to home, even though Romford would seem a safe enough distance from Glenrothes.
Runtime: 24 minEpisode 6: The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth
2004-03-04Dr. Sanchez falls in love with a patient infected with cosmic broccoli, but when it threatens to spread Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is forced to intervene. But love is blind, and the only eye Sanchez has open is at the end of a trouser snake. Can Dagless save his buddy and the world? (Yes, he can.)
Runtime: 23 minVideos
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - Original TV Trailer
