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Airs Next: Channel 4 at Thursday 10:30 PM (30 min.)
Status: Ended    Premiered: January 29, 2004    Last Aired: March 4, 2004
Show Categories: Comedy, Science-Fiction
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...
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Last episode: The Creeping Moss from the Shores of Shuggoth
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.
Aired: Thursday March 4, 2004
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Cast

 
Alice Lowe - Madeleine Wool / Dr Liz Asher
Matthew Holness - Garth Marenghi / Dr Rick Dagless, M.D.
Richard Ayoade - Dean Learner / Thornton Reed (photos)
Matt Berry (II) - Todd Rivers / Dr Lucien Sanchez
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Community Reviews (14)

 
10.0
Perfect
"Classic"
Darkplace is superb!
Continue » Posted Dec 12, 2007 2:10 pm PST
9.8
Superb
"Classic"
Despite its rather short life, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace remains a comedy classic.
Continue » Posted Sep 24, 2007 2:13 pm PST

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9.0
Superb
"Underappreciated"
A stylised comedy masterpiece that deserves more attention.
Continue » Posted Jul 30, 2007 12:16 pm PST
10.0
Perfect
"Classic"
hhhmmm....
Continue » Posted May 5, 2007 1:22 am PST
8.3
Great
"Go back! What was that?"
"Garth Marenghi's what?"
Continue » Posted Mar 9, 2007 3:18 pm PST
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Show: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
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abysmal: 10 (6.1%)
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