Yesterday Jordan showed me something that completely blew my mind. It was a TV show called “Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.” I watched 5 episodes and it’s now one of my favorites. I haven’t laughed that much since “Arrested Development.”

So here’s the premise of the show from Wikipedia:

“Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is a cult comedy series made for Channel 4. Created by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, it is a parody of the horror genre and revolves around the character of Garth Marenghi himself, a writer of pulp fiction played by Matthew Holness.

The series’ premise 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.”

I found two good clips of it on youtube. Here are the opening credits:

and here’s a great “bike chase”

I uploaded the first two episodes, and will be putting up the rest on here as well. Episode 1 and Episode 2.

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