Dark Ages | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Merle Nygate |
Written by | Rob Grant |
Directed by | Steve Bendelack |
Starring | Phill Jupitus Alistair McGowan Pauline McLynn |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 5 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | Andy Harries |
Producer | Justin Judd |
Running time | 30 min. |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 20 December 27 December 1999 | –
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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.