Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Show Synopsis
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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, East London 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 reality the series is a deliberate send-up both of the horror genre and of 1980s TV production. Action series such as Blake's 7, Doctor Who, The A-Team, The Sweeney, cult drama Twin Peaks and various American medical dramas are also obvious influences, and the comedy relies partly on familiarity with such programmes. More obscurely, Darkplace makes reference to Lars von Trier's "haunted hospital" TV series The Kingdom (Riget in Danish), which was later remade by Stephen King for an American audience as Kingdom Hospital. Much of the show could be taken as a parody of King's work (with the flying staplers and other deadly inanimate objects of Hell Hath Fury, for example, being a fairly direct parody of King's Maximum Overdrive and similar works).
The episodes themselves are given added authenticity by the title sequence being preceded by Channel 4's original Blocks ident.
Each episode of Darkplace includes interview sections set in the present-day, in which Marenghi and his co-stars comment on the show-within-the-show, which provides an extra layer of character comedy. These commentaries are always performed by Marenghi himself, Learner (In Hell Hath Fury, Marenghi introduces Learner as one of the few involved with the production who hasn't "died, or offended me.") and Todd Rivers.
The show's music soundtrack parodies the same subjects as the writing of Darkplace, and gained its composer Andrew Hewitt a BAFTA Nomination as Best New Composer for Film and TV (2004).
The show is currently being broadcast in the USA on Cartoon Network's Adult swim, and webcast on Adult Swim Video.
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Episode 1 - Once Upon A Beginning
New doctor Liz Asher arrives at Darkplace Hospital, where a mysterious cat portends disaster. Can Dr. Rick Dagless, M. D., act in time to prevent all sorts of unspeakable evilness leaking out from the standard-sized hellmouth under Darkplace Hospital itself? It's not going to be much of a series if he does in one episode.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/82692217/Garth_Marenghis_Darlplace_-101-_Once_Upon_a_Begining.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/82693545/Garth_Marenghis_Darlplace_-101-_Once_Upon_a_Begining.part3.rar
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Episode 2 - Hell Hath Fury
At Darkplace Hospital, lunch is delayed and objects begin flying about the place and generally moving quite a bit more than they would usually do. At first suspicion falls on the hospital's temporary clerical assistant, but Dr Rick Dagless M.D. is determined to find out the truth, even if it kills him - which it won't.
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http://rapidshare.com/files/82725890/102_-_Hell_Hath_Fury.part2.rar
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Episode 3 - Skipper the Eye Child
Somewhere on the wards of Darkplace Hospital, a man gives birth to a giant eyeball which brings out paternalistic instincts in Dr. Rick Dagless, M. D., still grieving for the loss of his half-human, half-grasshopper son. But could the eyeball be a potential killer? Well, what do you think? Duh!
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Episode 4 - The Apes of Wrath
A mysterious illness spreads like a particularly virulent disease through the wards of Darkplace, causing doctors and patients to revert to a primal state. It's up to Dr. Rick Dagless, M. D., to stop it before he too turns into a chimpanzee or an orang-utan or something like that.
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Episode 5 - Scotch Mist
A mist descends on Darkplace - and it's Scottish and/or Scotch. Dr Rick Dagless, M. D. had better do something really good about it, or else all the hospital's resident sassenachs are in grave danger. Probably.
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Episode 6 - 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, M. D., 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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http://rapidshare.com/files/82732375/106_-_The_Creeping_Moss_from_the_Shores_of_Shuggoth.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/82732795/106_-_The_Creeping_Moss_from_the_Shores_of_Shuggoth.part3.rar
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DVD ISO BELOW: Includes Special features, bonus commentary, deleted scenes, soundtrack etc.
Don't say i dont look after yis 
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