Dark Ages
Dark Ages

Dark Ages (1999)

"Welcome to 999 AD. Welcome To A New Millennium."

5.0 (2 votes)
1 Season
December 20, 1999
English
Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Network

ITV1

Episodes

Vile Vole Pie
E1

Vile Vole Pie

Dec 20, 1999
30 min

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

Vikings
E2

Vikings

Dec 20, 1999
30 min

No description available.

War
E3

War

Dec 24, 1999
30 min

No description available.

Witch
E4

Witch

Dec 27, 1999
30 min

No description available.

The End of the World
E5

The End of the World

Dec 27, 1999
30 min

No description available.

Cast

Details

Original Title

Dark Ages

Status

Ended

Seasons

1

Episodes

5