Alistair McGowan
Dark Ages (1999)
Season 1
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 millennium in the year 999 AD, and parodied contemporary fears at the turn of the third millennium in 1999. It was written by Rob Grant and directed by Steve Bendelack.
Released Dec. 20, 1999
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Comedy
Keywords: tmdb.medieval, tmdb.sitcom, imdb.year-999, imdb.990s, imdb.medieval-times, imdb.dark-ages, imdb.saxon + 8 more, imdb.primitive, imdb.millennium, imdb.10th-century, imdb.viking, imdb.famine, imdb.village, imdb.riot, imdb.end-of-the-world
Network: ITV1
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Vile Vole Pie
In Vile Vole Pie, the pilot episode of Dark Ages, we meet the series' main characters. Gudrun the stonemason of Sludgebrook; his nagging and pan wielding wife Agnes; their daydreaming daughter Matilda; Thane Redwald of Bottingsbury; his slightly unchristian-like friend, Brother Cedric the priest; their Earl, the ruthless and torture-obsessed Byrnoth; and Gudrun's two dim-witted friends, Badsmith and Bigwart. The year in 999ad, and the people of the small Englalish shire of Bottingsbury are worked up in a frenzy of millennium fever. While the peasants of Sludgebrook busy themselves with small talk of Armageddon and curious apocalyptic omens involving two-headed rabbits, Earl Byrnoth's and Thane Redwald's concerns are greater. Byrnoth orders Redwald to take control of the people in his shire and put an end to all the millennium craziness - or else the Thane will discover the true extent of the Earl's imaginative capacity when it comes to torture techniques.
Naturally, Redwald is morti
Dec. 20, 1999, midnight
S1E2 - Vikings
Dec. 20, 1999, midnight
S1E3 - War
Dec. 24, 1999, midnight
S1E4 - Witch
Dec. 27, 1999, midnight
S1E5 - The End of the World
Dec. 27, 1999, midnight
Network: ITV1
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Dec. 20, 1999
Last Air Date: Dec. 27, 1999, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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