Dark Ages (TV series)

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Dark Ages
Genre Sitcom
Written by Rob Grant
Directed by Steve Bendelack
Starring Phill Jupitus
Alistair McGowan
Pauline McLynn
Country of origin United Kingdom
Language(s) English
No. of series 1
No. of episodes 5 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Andy Harries
Producer(s) Justin Judd
Running time 30 min.
Broadcast
Original channel ITV
Original run 20 December 1999 – 27 December 1999
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary
For other meanings, see Dark Ages (disambiguation).

Dark Ages is a British television sitcom, first broadcast as five thirty-minute episodes on ITV in December 1999. It portrayed medieval English villagers fearful of the turn of the new (second) millennium in the year 999 AD, and parodied contemporary fears at the turn of the third millennium (such as the Millennium Bug) in 1999. It was written by Rob Grant and directed by Steve Bendelack.

Contents

[edit] Episodes

  1. Vile Vole Pie
  2. Vikings
  3. War
  4. Witch
  5. The End of the World

[edit] Quotations

Byrnoth: I'll make this brief. God knows you've got little enough time left on the planet. At cock's crow, we're off to fight the Vikings. Why? Because this little island is SICK of being invaded by Europeans! We've had the Romans, the Saxons, and now the Danes. For God's sake, who's next? The bloody Normans?
Badsmith: I wouldn't worry about millennium poxes, mate. We'll all be dead before then. Burnt to cinders by a huge, fiery ball.
Gudrun: Oh, that's enough! Listen, you can take it from me, our existence as we know it is not gonna end on the first of January underneath a great, blazing, fiery ball of flame.
Badsmith: Right. But even if it does, it's not the end of the world, is it?

[edit] Cast

[edit] Guests

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Named after Raedwald, a Saxon king.
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