Dark Ages (1999)
Synopsis
In the year A.D. 999, a village of medieval Englanders fear the coming millennium.
First Air Date: 1999-12-20
Last Air Date: 1999-12-27
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 5
Created By: Merle Nygate
Networks: ITV1
Top Cast
- Phill Jupitus as Gudrun
- Pauline McLynn as Agnes
- Alistair McGowan as Redwald
- Dave Lamb as Badsmith
- Sheridan Smith as Matilda
- Laurence Howarth as Cedric
- Paul Putner as Bigwart
- Jason Byrne as Arland
- Mike Haley as Byrnoth
Seasons
Miniseries (1999)
In the year A.D. 999, a village of medieval Englanders fear the coming millennium.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: 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
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Ep. 2: Vikings
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Ep. 3: War
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Ep. 4: Witch
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Ep. 5: The End of the World
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