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5 episodes · 20th December 1999

In the year A.D. 999, a village of medieval Englanders fear the coming millennium.

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Episode guide

Episodes

01 Vile Vole Pie still Vile Vole Pie Episode 120th December 1999 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 02 Vikings still Vikings Episode 220th December 1999 03 War still War Episode 324th December 1999 04 Witch still Witch Episode 427th December 1999 05 The End of the World still The End of the World Episode 527th December 1999
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Cast & Crew

01 Phill Jupitus profile Phill Jupitusas Gudrun 02 Pauline McLynn profile Pauline McLynnas Agnes 03 Alistair McGowan profile Alistair McGowanas Redwald 04 Sheridan Smith profile Sheridan Smithas Matilda 05 Paul Putner profile Paul Putneras Bigwart
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