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	Welcome to the Official Garth Marenghi website
		Darkplace was scripted and directed by the best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi, known to thousands as the author of such classic chillers as The Ooze (can water die?), Afterbirth (a mutated placenta attacks Bristol) and Black Fang (rats learn to drive).
		In addition, Marenghi starred as the show’s lead character, Dr. Rick Dagless M.D., a maverick doctor battling against the evil forces lurking in a standard-sized hellmouth underneath a hospital in pre-apocalyptic Romford.
		Marenghi, however, blames the government for the show’s troubled genesis: “MI8, which is actually three levels above MI6, pulled the plug.
	www.garthmarenghi.com /darkplace (525 words)

	SCIFI.COM \| Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
		Darkplace was the brainchild of bestselling horror writer Garth Marenghi, known to thousands as the author of such classic chillers as The Ooze ("Can water die?") and Black Fang ("Rats learn to drive!").
		Marenghi not only scripted and directed but also starred as the show's lead character, Dr. Rick Dagless M.D., a maverick physician battling evil forces lurking beneath a British hospital.
		Even now Marenghi warns viewers that the show, an effort to "radicalize men's minds," might prove "too subversive, too dangerous, too damn scary." The wait for the most famous "lost" project in horror goes on — but not for much longer….
	www.scifi.com /darkplace/about (356 words)

	Garth Marenghi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Garth Marenghi is a fictional horror author created by British comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, and played by Holness.
		The character of Garth Marenghi is self-important and displays not only a general ignorance of many subjects of which he claims knowledge (one boast made in both the stage shows and the TV series is that he has written more books than he's read), but also various other unpleasant traits including sexism and xenophobia.
		Garth Marenghi bears some noticeable similarities to James Herbert, notably in his dress sense and glasses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garth_Marenghi (224 words)

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		Garth Marenghi : The hospital is a jungle.
		Garth Marenghi : Yes absolutely Ronulus, but people have also ripped me off before I was born - my consciousness stretches back thousands of years and I believe that Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens all half inched their stuff from me.
		Garth Marenghi : I believe the Internet is haunted by a spectre known as the digi-beast who is plaguing me and has been spending money constantly on my credit card.
	www.channel4.com /community/showcards/G/Garth_Marenghis_Darkplace.html (1517 words)

	The release of the 1st series of "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" on DVD Petition
		We, the many fans of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, have been distraught at being unable to re-watch episodes of this marvellous TV show since the broadcasting of the 6th and last episode of the 1st series, The Creeping Moss From The Shores Of Shuggoth, early in 2004.
		Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace is one of the most original, funny and brilliant British shows broadcast in the last 10 years and on par with The Office.
		The The release of the 1st series of "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" on DVD Petition to Channel 4 was created by and written by Greg Benham (beach_freak2k@hotmail.com).
	www.petitiononline.com /marenghi (267 words)

	Review of Garth Marenghi's Netherhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Garth Marenghi is a fictional horror writer: he sells novels by the truckload and loves himself for it, but his writing keeps dipping into banal literalism and absurdity.
		After an introduction by his editor, Marenghi appears on stage to bask in our supposed regard and then act out one of his stories, this time with an Egyptian flavour involving an ancient tablet, a huge crow, a walking brain and the most astonishing portrayal of a camel I have ever seen.
		The trio behind the Marenghi company are highly accomplished at what Ken Campbell calls "doing it crappily": keeping straight faces through endless incidents of supposed incompetence and downright dradful writing and performance, which are all of course quite deliberate.
	www.cix.co.uk /~shutters/reviews/01162.htm (210 words)

	Garth Marenghi - TheBestLinks.com - Channel 4, Sexism, Xenophobia, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Garth Marenghi - TheBestLinks.com - Channel 4, Sexism, Xenophobia, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace,...
		Garth Marenghi, Channel 4, Sexism, Xenophobia, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace...
		The character has to date appeared in two successful stage shows Garth Marenghi's Fright Night and Garth Marenghi's Netherhead and a TV series for Channel 4 Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Garth_Marenghi.html (244 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
		Back in the 1980s, horror writer Garth Marenghi wrote, directed and starred in the terrifying Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a TV series so radical, risky and 'goddam crazy' that 'the powers that be' suppressed it.
		Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness - winners of the 2001 Perrier Award with Garth Marenghi's Netherhead - adapted their pretentious horror-writer character, like a super-egotistic Stephen King, for this lively and sparky C4 spoof, the root of the humour being that Marenghi is rubbish and so is everything in which he's involved.
		He genuinely believes that Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a groundbreaking masterpiece considered too dark for the 1980s by some faceless government department (MI8?), whereas we can see that it's a tawdry, badly written, appallingly acted, ham-fisted slice of hokum with wobbly sets, useless special effects and inept sound dubbing.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/g/garthmarenghisdarkplace_999040129.shtml (380 words)

	Website dedicated to Regional, Europe, United Kingdom, Arts and Entertainment, Television, Programmes, Comedy & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - Fan page offering an overview of the programme, an episode guide and sound files..
		Save Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - Offers images, episode and character guides, multimedia clips, a forum, links, a personality quiz and a petition aimed at returning the series to the small screen..
		Chortle - Garth Marenghi's Netherhead - "Working with some of the finest avant-garde performance artists available at short notice, Garth returns with a work he considers to be the darkest thing he has ever written.
	www.findtutorials.com /internet/dir/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Arts_and_Entertainment/Television/Programmes/Comedy/Garth_Marenghi's_Darkplace (324 words)

	YouTube - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Episode 1 - Part 1
		You may recognise Darkplace's Lucien Sanchez and Dean Learner as the Boosh's Dixon Bainbridge and Saboo.
		darkplace dark place garth marenghi mighty boosh the dean learner matt holness berry richard ayode funny (more) (less)
		Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - Larry's Funeral (from ep1)
	youtube.com /watch?v=nNfQ0ORwSDM (240 words)

	Garth Marenghi - The Truth
		At the start of each episode of Darkplace, Garth annouces, "I am Garth Marenghi." There is your first clue.
		My thoughts were confirmed when I checked IMDB.com, to find Garth was no credited with Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
		To be more acurate, Garth Marenghi himself is not real.
	garthmarenghi.celebstate.com /thetruth.htm (143 words)

	www.myspace.com/garthmarenghi_dvd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Self-described as a fabulist, a shaman, a ferryman and a dreamweaver, Marenghi also starred as the show’s lead character, Doctor Rick Dagless M.D., a maverick doctor and ex-warlock haunted by his past, who finds himself battling the forces of evil that have been unleashed from a hellmouth situated underneath Darkplace hospital in Romford.
		The show was produced by Marenghi’s publisher and business associate, Dean Learner, who also played no-nonsense hospital boss Thornton Reed, a man forced to sit behind a desk due to injuries suffered as a P.O.W. in Korea.
		Production of the fifty or so episodes of ‘Darkplace’ was plagued with problems, leading to rumours that the show was cursed; by the time ‘Darkplace’ was finally cancelled there had been budgetary trouble, six people had lost their lives, three had experienced nervous breakdowns and there had been at least one unearthly visitation.
	www.myspace.com /garthmarenghi_dvd (1667 words)

	Horror Express Forums -> Garth Marenghi's Dark Place (UK TV series)
		Garth Marenghi is a character developed by a group of comedians foor stage, now they bring him to the small screen.
		The Marenghi character is a horror writer (http://www.garthmarenghi.com), who is portrayed as having written some ridiculess horror stories.
		Marenghi pulling out a revolver and blasting an unbelievable amount of bullets into a "zombie", while Thornton pulls a shotgun out from nowhere and starts blasting; close-up's are blatantly filmed away from where the action took place lol.
	www.horrorexpress.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=579 (1334 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As we walk into a London pub, Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, two mild-mannered twentysomething men, transmogrify – with a pair of glasses and a slight change of mien – into a pair of unself-knowing egomaniacs in their fifties: cult novelist Garth Marenghi and his ever-present publisher Dean Learner.
		We see cult novelist Marenghi – author of fictional works such as Rupture, Eye Sore, The Ooze and Tomb Boy (still banned in schools) – reveal the vivid imaginings of his disturbed but sadly uninteresting mind, abetted by a series of lieutenants played by Ayoade and Alice Lowe.
		Marenghi chips in: "A lot of my early stories were published in gentlemen's magazines.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /theatre/interviews/article163206.ece (748 words)

	Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - Save Darkplace
		Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was originally filmed in the 1980s and has since earned a cult reputation as one of the most terrifying and radical television programmes ever made.
		Our objective here is to get Darkplace the recognition it needs, whether through a new series or at least a better timed re-run of the original series.
		So help us in our bid to bring back Darkplace and help Garth Marenghi's vision come to light once more...
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /thegoalrash/savedarkplace (324 words)

	BBC News \| SHOWBIZ \| Garth Marenghi uncovered
		Spoof pulp horror writer Garth Marenghi scooped the Perrier Comedy Award in Edinburgh on Saturday, but the team behind the creation keep their identities secret.
		Marenghi is an alarmingly prolific novelist - publishing his debut Sliver, a book about a flying knife, at the age of 25.
		Marenghi's publicist was on-stage at the Perrier Awards to laud the writer's inclusion in the mainstream.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/1513438.stm (457 words)

	Jonny's weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I was watching TV Thursday evening, when this programme: 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, came on.
		Garth was born in Leytonstone, and spent his childhood in Romford.
		It is evident that Marenghi has made his script absolutely crystal clear to his colleagues as the spoof humour is executed with such good timing and accuracy.
	www.danchan.com /weblog/Jonny/89646 (359 words)

	Sports-Den.net - Less sports, More den
		The series: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a spoof horror show that has countless nods back to various poorly made 70s and 80s television shows.
		Holness plays the fictional character "Garth Marenghi, horror writer" (though he prefers the term "Dreamweaver"), who introduces each episode of his show, "Darkplace." Throughout the show, which is set in pre-apocalyptic Romford in the 1980s, it cuts away from the action to talk to Marenghi and other characters from the show about the production.
		To try to explain the show's genius is fairly futile but the fact that the character of Garth Margenhi has a whole backstory and has been convincingly fleshed out all adds to the quality.
	www.sports-den.net /columns.php?id=132 (658 words)

	DVD Times - Garth Marenghi - Christmas
		Following our previous information (posted exactly a year ago) that Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was set for a DVD release last October, we now have an update.
		The show is now expected to make it onto DVD sometime towards the end of the year on a DVD set featuring all of the broadcast episodes with commentaries and a selection of interviews.
		Garth always says they filmed "about 50", and they enjoyed a limited run in Peru.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=10784 (482 words)

	dark discussion - Garth Marenghi's Dark Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Garth Marenghi's website http://www.garthmarenghi.com/ is also well worth catching.
		The previous week saw Garth facing mystical Scots who travelled, like Carpenter's pirates, in a thick fog wreaking vengeance and assuaged only by an offering of shortbread.
		As much as it spoofed the production values and antique views of the early eighties it also managed to be a wholly affectionate tribute to horror from that period and the affectations of those involved in it.
	www.darkdreams.org /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=5495&pp=40 (751 words)

	Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
		The basic premise of Garth Merenghi's Darkplace is that in the early 1980s the best-selling horror author (Matthew Holness) and his publisher/publicist, Dean Learner (Richard Ayoade), produced and starred in a six-episode TV series for Channel 4, where they played Dr Rick Dagless MD and hospital administrator Thornton Reed respectively.
		Set in a Romford hospital that sits on an inter-dimensional gateway or some such, Darkplace was so controversial that it was buried in the vaults never to be repeated … until now, with each episode further contextualised via retrospective introduction and interjections from Merenghi and co.
		There is also what looks to be an easter egg in the form of Garth and Pam's "red hot" home movies, though I couldn't figure out how to access it.
	www.kinocite.co.uk /19/1970.php (380 words)

	Review of Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Horror author Garth Marenghi and his works are the creation of a trio of recent ex-Cambridge Footlighters, and this late-night hour bears both the strengths and weaknesses of that pedigree.
		"Marenghi" and his pair of underlings are skilled at what Ken Campbell calls "doing it crappily": in this case, putting an absolute poker face on plonking pretentiousness and base incompetence alike.
		Some of the jokes are too self-aware for an ass like Marenghi to have created, some are simply gratuitous gags that they evidently couldn't resist shoe-horning into the proceedings.
	www.cix.co.uk /~shutters/reviews/00101.htm (220 words)

	The Filter^: Garth Marenghi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Garth Marenghi sucks monkey balls with mushrooms growin out.
		Garth Marenghi isnt even funny.he is just a random queer who doesnt know his arse from a hole in the ground.
		garth marenghi or "sugar daddy" as he likes to be called has such a great arse.
	thefilter.blogs.com /thefilter/2004/01/garth_marenghi.html (720 words)

	TV Forge.com - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
		Legendary horror writer Garth Marenghi is best known for his books including The Ooze (can water die?) and Afterbirth (a mutated placenta takes over Bristol).
		Yet is his creative vision spans beyond this and in the 80's he wrote, directed and stared in a TV series that was so groundbreaking it was never shown on British television.
		Garth therefore fished out the old film reals and edited in some interviews with himself, his publisher Dean Learner and the actor Todd Rivers.
	www.tvforge.com /darkplace (239 words)

	ParentCenter \| Entertainment Guide - Television: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		GARTH MARENGHI'S DARKPLACE has a very entertaining premise, but it's better in theory than in practice.
		Marenghi (played by Matthew Holness) is a Stephen King-esque horror writer who once starred in an ill-fated TV series that was never broadcast, Darkplace.
		Marenghi's manager, Dean Learner (Richard Ayoade), also pulls double duty as loyal sidekick Thornton Reed, and Madeleine Wool (Alice Lowe) supplies the necessary love interest as Dr. Liz Asher, a powerful psychic trapped in a frail female body, who tends to faint for no particular reason.
	parentcenter.babycenter.com /reviews/okid/gentertainment/view/4-5638 (761 words)

	Spring Anthology^: Garth Marenghi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Garth Marenghi is Romford's most famous literary son, and the plougher of a deep furrow in gore- horror fiction.
		You may recognise Marenghi AKA Matthew Holness as Simon, the obstinate computer nerd in BBC's the Office.
		Don't forget UK dwellers, Garth Marenghi's Darkplce begins thursday (today!) BBC2, or some other channel, i don't know.
	thefilter.blogs.com /spring_anthology/2004/01/garth_marenghi.html (246 words)

	: RevolutionSF - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace : Review
		Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a spoof of a horror series hosted by Garth Marenghi, a spoof of a horror writer.
		Richard Ayoade is Marenghi's producer in "real life" and the hospital's chief on the show.
		Funniest to me is Marenghi as Dagless, "author, dreamer, visionary, plus actor." Both the author and his character are portrayed as gritty, invulnerable he-men.
	www.revolutionsf.com /article.html?id=3274 (486 words)

	Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - The TV IV
		Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a comedy series spoofing a 1980's-era horror program.
		It is supposedly conceived and written by famed horror writer Garth Marenghi, who is in fact a fictional character created by comedian Matthew Holness.
		The actual plot revolves around a group of people in a hospital situated over the gates of Hell, who must now take up arms to defend themselves and the world.
	tviv.org /Garth_Marenghi's_Darkplace (146 words)

	Memorable Quotes from "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Garth Marenghi: I realized that man needs to keep in touch with his primal urges, whether through sport or through violent movies.
		Garth Marenghi: As a horror writer I don't ask for much.
		Garth Marenghi: I've always loved the great tragedies, King Lear, The Poseidon Adventure, Superman 2.
	indie.imdb.com /Quotes?0397150 (625 words)

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