Dark Season (1991) Full Complete
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- By Russell T. Davies. Featuring Kate Winslet.
Interesting and aesthetic and with very strong vibes of Doctor Who and The Demon Headmaster. First broadcast in 1991.
Comprising six 25-minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories tell the adventures of three teenagers and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the actions of the sinister Mr Eldritch.
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You know you're off to a winner when one of the opening lines is NOTHING IN THE WORLD CAN STOP ME NOW
Only came for Kate....stayed for Marcie.
Im now staying to see Marcie ..
This was filmed at Robert Haining Comprehensive School in Mytchett, Surrey, just before it was demolished. I had the misfortune to be a pupil there in the 1970s. Awful school, first class demolition job.
I live in the house next door to Kate Winslet s character in this series. I am so desperate for fame obviously
Eldritch is a young Albert Wesker from the Resident Evil games lol
Ah..this takes me back. Actually, I was never there, I was somewhere else, but still, it takes me back.
6 years later I would fall in love with Winslet in Titanic!!
Was looking for this for years and couldn't remember what it was called other than it had a behemoth under the the ground but it scared me back as a 9 year old kid when it was first aired and I don't think it's aged that badly at all, certainly better than The Demon Headmaster which was on a few years after and had a similar feeling vibe to it
*7 year old kid
@@Tailsofthecryptid The Demon headmaster was written as a book before this was made though and I think inspired this. I think the demon headmaster series is pretty damn good especially the later series! Thanks for your comments!
On and off for years I always think about this series and have been meaning to search it up but didn't know where to start looking lol -last night as I've moved to a new place it popped back into my mind again and here I am after alittle search 😁
@@Tailsofthecryptid I was 8/9 at the time and recall it twisted my head 😂
czcams.com/video/LHQb6fw3y0U/video.html I searched for this last night too which is another one that was slightly twisted as a child 👍
I loved this, Olivias eyes freaked me out when i watched it, but it made such an impression on me.
Just finished watching this again after 30 years. Cheers for the upload. Still pretty good - although Mr Eldritch isn't quite as scary.
Wow! Not seen this for 30 years! Brilliant
Happy 30th Anniversary, Dark Season!
I have just binge watched this for the first time since watching it on DVD (kids, ask your parents what they were) many years ago. What joy, hammier than Miss Piggy. For those who could possibly be interested, most of the street scenes were filmed on the Woburn Avenue (it had a different construction site name) estate in Farnborough, Hampshire, about one and a half miles from Robert Haining School in my judgement but in a different education authority area.
The last time I saw this was back in 1991 I was 5 and it scared me so much it was like watching dr who now I can see why from the opening credits you can see that Russell T Davies was going work on dr who wish he made more of this show marcie reminds me of the first dr love this show
I've been looking for this for years. This was strange when I was 5. The first scene took me back straight away
Given that this show was created by Russel T Davies it's not surprising that lot of this reminds me of DR. WHO (the opening credits seem like an homage to the original series), and I see a lot of elements that he brought to the renewed series in 2005, and to the lovely Sarah Jane Smith's series. But I'm also getting a real THE PRISONER vibe from some of this show, like the weird skewed angles that a lot of the scenes with of Eldritch and his henchmen are shot from. I'd be real surprised if Davies wasn't inspired by Patrick McGoohan's brilliant and surreal 1960's masterpiece of a series, which also had an episode (called THE GENERAL, i believe) that dealt.with a computer that beamed information directly into people's brains but it was also brainwashing them into doing its bidding. I'm so glad Davies is returning to the helm of DR WHO next year. (Chibnall wrote a few good WHO and TORCHWOOD episodes, but as showrunner he's taken some grave missteps, to put it charitably...)
I haven't seen this show in over 30-years, I had forgotten the name. I didn't even realise the main actress was Kate Winslet. All I remember thinking that the kids were soo lucky getting thier very own laptops.
16Mhz 386 with 2MB of ram. That'll be enough for anyone.
Wow! Revisiting this creepy proto-Who after all these years is so not a disappointment. Can't believe they reused James Horner's Aliens score.
Re-used the sounds from Mother too.
@@WelshIron the scream from the Xenomorph when it attacks Dallas in the air ducts in the first Alien film can also be heard when Marcie asks the Behemoth to open its defences in the final episode. I think the composer definitely had access to a sampler! James Horner’s score is well used here.
When the Beomoth door opens the wind noise is lifted from Alien too. The wind on the planet where they find the crashed ship.
Thats because both ALIEN and ALIENS were made here, even the soundtracks were recorded here lol you'll find all the sound effects from the movies were eventually used by the bbc and other british media in various things due to us having an hand in making them lol
Is it me or Harry Potter contains the same themes and character tropes as Dark Season for its first two books?
Philosopher’s Stone, strange professor has a sneaky plan, three students uncover it. Chamber of Secrets, pure blood villain seeks an underground creature to perpetuate pure race. Marcie looks, acts and sounds like Hermione, Reet has Harry’s attitude, Thomas is Ron with Malfoy dye. Idk JK Rowling started writing Harry Potter in 1991. I just came to watch Kate Winslet first credit and it grabbed me. She grew from a little tv miniseries to the biggest film ever made, and two of the highest box office grossing films in history and many awards won.
and then she came back to do this again with the audiodrama!
Just to see Kate Winslet
Russell T Davies's Dr Who for kids. Actually a good show, and it gave us Kate Winslet
and now it’s coming back!
oh this is excellent! do you happen to have Century Falls by any chance? :)
The main kid actors came to nothing except for Kate. Who could have guessed at her success back then.
yeah, lots of computers coming into a school in 1991 is...mysterious...
Actually kind of is, schools in the UK may have had a few computers at that time but they wouldn't have given them free to the kids!
@@TNJX the UK was the forefront of school computing in the 80's, the BBC Micro and the Speccy had a massive user base in the UK so it is a bit weird.
@@forgottenuploads To take them home for free, however, *IS* weird.
@@FrankNFurter1000 I took the school's pet Golden Hamster home once. It escaped and my Dad had to stay up into the middle of the night until it came out from under the kitchen sink, and re-capture it, before I could return it to school.
Doctor Who Damaged Goods vibes here
Marcie is The Doctor.
She's very 7th Doctor here. I just wish this series was given the room and budget to flourish properly. I think Marcie Hatter is also canon in Doctor Who lore - she gets a mention somewhere, I forget the episode, though.
@@FrankNFurter1000 She gets a namecheck in RTD's Damaged Goods novel if I remember rightly.
@@_lwza_ THANK YOU! :)
She's Ace! even got a baseball bat/paddle
Yes, I think that's probably right. There's no reason now why the Doctor can't be a teenage girl, and it's entirely plausible that her "parents" are Gallifreyan custodians dispatched to oversee her exile on earth.
WAIT....From 0:001-0:005 was that the Start-Up Booting noise from ALIEN, that computer just made? Of course Eldritch is form Waylin Enterprises!
1:14:31 Jacqueline Pearce, the actress would played Servalan in Blake's 7! British television science fiction is a small world after all... Pearce died in 2018 at the age of 74.
I dont remember pastels being quite THAT popular but
Superb.
Can't beleave they made this whole production for only £25.
harsh, It looks very good for the budget they had!
The blonde guy is Albert Wesker!
Some great acting from an early Richard E. Grant and Thelma from The Likely Lads playing herself.
I don't think Richard E Grant is in it?
Richard E Grant? Grant Parsons more like
Fruits of thr forest yoghurt. Better days....
How on earth is this 31 years old?
The linear nature of time.
It is from 1991
0:44 Quoting Zaroff from “The Underwater Menace”
Oof... just finished watching this. Haven't seen it since it was first shown on telly. This hasn't aged well at all. Visually great but .....the tropes! The dialogue! ..... who tried to make these very middle class suburban children talk like Bill & Ted?! And Inge's accent? Is she German or French?! "Tell me your name!" - teacher proceeds to say it 3 times including surname, Marcie doesn't even realise and neither does Eldritch! Ha! Very, very hammy!
""Don't tell him Pike!"
@@thedukeofnuts Love it!
I recognised the BBC computers.
Mr.
Eldritch, eh?
Didn't ANYONE wear black trousers in the early 90s? Haha to be fair i was 5 and dont remember wearing dark denim or black trousers until i was at least 9. So wierd looking back lol 😂
Good series, one would have liked to see some background and maybe family life on the three kid leads. Did both stories happen on the same day? If not, why are they wearing the same clothes ever day? Kate is a bit pudgy here, she certainly got better. Is that really the British pronunciation of "behemoth"?
Young kate winslet who wud of thought ?
This was sick as fuck watcing it as a child wit my brother
Who's that guy with the Shades? What is he?
Like some kind of evil inhuman entity who wants to kill everyone, the guy reprised the role for radio along with the rest of the cast for the first time in 30 years, it came out this week and he hasn't missed a beat.
@@richardsaxty2911 According to RTD, The Devil himself, Mr. Eldritch.
Why is everyone in pastels for?
It was the 90s
@@NoRemainingCommercialPotential Yeah I remember it well, no school uniform was pastels mate
@@nigelbenn4642 They're not in uniform they're apparently allowed to wear their own clothes!
@@NoRemainingCommercialPotential Are another "reality" of UK schools. Never been to a school where no uniform existed.
Dark Season is supposed to be set in 1999 in keeping with the millennial themes. The production team are just trying to imagine what late-90s fashions would look like (and thinking school uniforms would have been phased out by then).
They were way off the mark, but at least we were spared the grotty dungarees and neon shell suits of 1991 fashion!
Definitely Jimmy Savile on the thumbnail