Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
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Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible was a British television series, created by Graham Duff, co-written by and starring Steve Coogan. Originally aired on BBC2 in 2001, the program was designed as an anthology show, in the style of Tales from the Crypt, and [[Wiktionary:lampoon|lampoon]]ed many aspects of the horror genre, homaging the British horror films of Hammer, Amicus and Tigon from the 1960s and 1970s.
Dr. Terrible (Coogan) acted as the narrator for each episode, a self-contained spoof of a famous horror movie ('victims' included the Hammer Horror films, Fu Manchu, Witchfinder General and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). The series also benefitted from guest star appearances from former genre stalwarts such as Honor Blackman, Graham Crowden, Sheila Keith and Angela Pleasence, all satirising their earlier film performances.
The six-episode series fell short of expectations, and failed to be recommissioned by the BBC, but has since been released on DVD.
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