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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1990s 2 Mins Read

    Dark Season

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    6 x 25 minute episodes

    The main character in Dark Season is Marcie Hatter (Victoria Lambert), an idiosyncratic, cynical and bossy 14-year-old who carries a lacrosse stick in her bag, notices the smallest details, and acts twenty years older than her age.

    Attempting to keep up with her are fifth-form schoolfriends Thomas (Ben Chandler) and Reet (a young Kate Winslet, five years before her first Oscar nomination) and teacher Miss Maitland (Brigit Forsyth).

    Dark Season was effectively two three-part serials. The first saw the gang investigating a company that was giving free computers to their school.

    In the second storyline, the kids discovered a powerful relic of the Second World War – the “Behemoth” – buried in the school grounds and battled a group of neo-Nazis for control of it.

    They were pitted against two Doctor Who-style villains: the evil Mr Eldritch (Grant Parsons) – a sunglasses-wearing, bleached-blonde millionaire – and Miss Pendragon (Jacqueline Pearce).

    What the production lacked in budget it made up for in style. Director Colin Cant shot it as creatively as possible, with frequent Dutch tilts down corridors, creating an unsettling atmosphere.

    With its witty script, eccentric characters and fun sci-fi ideas, Dark Season spawned Russell T Davies’s second spooky series: Century Falls (1993).

    Marcie Hatter
    Victoria Lambert
    Reet 
    Kate Winslet
    Thomas 
    Ben Chandler
    Miss Maitland
    Brigit Forsyth
    Mr Eldritch
    Grant Parsons
    Behemoth
    Marsha Fitzalan
    Miss Pendragon
    Jacqueline Pearce
    Inga 
    Martina Berne
    Dr Osley
    Tim Barker
    Mrs Polzinski
    Rosalie Crutchley
    Mr Polzinski
    Cyril Shaps
    Olivia
    Samantha Cahill
    Luke 
    Stephen Tredre
    Headmaster
    Roger Milner
    Marcie’s Mum
    Wendy Wareham

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