Urban Gothic Season 1
Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel. Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.
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Urban Gothic
2000Urban Gothic was a horror based series of short stories shown on Channel 5 running for two series between May 2000 and December 2001. Filmed on a low budget and broadcast in a later time-slot, it nonetheless acquired a following. It has also since been repeated on the Horror Channel. Set around London there is an underlying story thread that only becomes clear in the last episodes of each series. Each episode was different in style from the others, running the gamut of documentary-style independent film to spoof, to slick dramas similar in style to The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone.
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Urban Gothic Season 1 Full Episode Guide
A journalist looking for a story that will launch his career gets a tip from a strange guy named Samuel, a tip that leads him to ""File 42"". But the editor of the paper informs him that ""File 42"" doesn't really exist, just made up stories. However, it soon transpires that that story had been floating around for a very long time...
After a phantom pregnancy, and learning that another pregnancy would be impossible, Jane begins to discover who her partner Peter really is...
An up and coming crime lord wants to join the ranks of London's legendary criminals, but in order to be initiated into the ""Boy's Club"", he must kill his father...
A working-class family from the city leave for a new life in a small leafy town. Things seem to be going well until their daughter Kylie begins to question why the town is so perfect, and why their dog Benson keeps finding strange pieces of meat...
Five slacker youths are summoned to detention after school by the fearsome Mr. Rogers. Leaving them to work on a project called ""The Beast in Me and How to Find It"", the five get on with their work, but only moments into their work, they find the decapitated body of Mr. Rogers.
After a case in which a policeman was killed in an abandoned cinema by a so-called 'wolf boy', Police Doctor Miranda Sharpe and Animal Behaviourist David Stillman are drawn in to examine the boy. Miranda begins to find herself attracted to him, and after being scratched, David soon discovers hairs sprouting all over his body.
Two youths break into a mental home, and a nurse under the impression they were residents trying to escape begins a series of experiments on them.
Moving into a new housing estate with his mother, Jake befriends a girl named Sadie, who tells him the Devil himself lives on their block, when he questions a series of mysterious deaths.
Saul Darrow visits an elderly immigrant, and sets off a chain of horrific events.
Two detectives investigate a bizarre series of deaths, in which three victims - all killed on subsequent evenings - had had vital organs removed. The organs had been transplanted, carried out by Dr. Richard Harris, and the only other patient who had received a transplant from the surgeon was 21-year old student Leila Haze.
A young twentysomething begins dating a TV producer named Lucien, who turns out to be the devil bringing with him temptation to her and her friends miserable lives.
A film crew making a documentary follow a vampire called Rex around Soho.
Two disaffected youths find a dead body in an abandoned warehouse and their friend Milton tells them he knows of a way to reanimate the corpse.