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?
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?
Season 1 episodes
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Episode 1
Once Upon a Beginning
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New 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.
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Directed by Richard AyoadeWritten by Richard Ayoade, Matthew HolnessGuest stars Kim Noble, Julian Barratt, Sarah Kants, Lawrence Michelowski, Daniel Riste, Stuart Silver
The 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.
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Directed by Richard AyoadeWritten by Richard Ayoade, Matthew HolnessGuest stars Kim Noble, Stephen Merchant, Jonathan Edwards Young, Matt Green
The 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.
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Directed by Richard AyoadeWritten by Richard Ayoade, Matthew HolnessGuest stars Graham Linehan, Lydia Fox, Spencer Brown, Lewis Palmer, Kevin Hudson
Monkey 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.
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Directed by Richard AyoadeWritten by Richard Ayoade, Matthew HolnessGuest stars Kim Noble, Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Samir Haddad
A 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.
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Directed by Richard AyoadeWritten by Richard Ayoade, Matthew HolnessGuest stars Kim Noble, Matt Green, Richard Thomson, Adrian Sturges, Tina Tutkova, Paul King, Jerome Smith
Dr. 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.)
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Directed by Richard AyoadeWritten by Richard Ayoade, Matthew HolnessGuest stars Stephen Merchant, Julian Barratt, Graham Linehan, Sarah Kants, Bronwen Davies, Adrian Sturges, Nicholas Ivanov
