Garth Marengi’s Darkplace

Wikipedia says:

The premise of the series is that in the mid-1980s, Garth Marenghi and his publisher Dean Learner made their own TV series on a shoestring budget. Set in Darkplace Hospital in Romford, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace tells of the adventures of Dr. Rick Dagless, MD, as he fights the forces of darkness while simultaneously coping with the pressures of running a modern hospital. In spite of the programme’s obvious flaws — wooden acting, cringeworthy scripts and amazingly poor special effects, to name but three — both Marenghi and Learner still regard the series as a masterpiece. But nobody else does, which is why it’s taken nearly 20 years to reach the screen.

Of course, in reality the series is a deliberate send-up both of the horror genre and of 1980s TV production.

This show is great. Here’s the first episode:

via Dead-Frog

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