About this season
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.
Episodes (9)
1. Sandman
Aired 22 October 2001 • 30 min
As a 'touch the car' endurance test enters its fourth night, the will to win for the remaining four contestants clouds their moral standing.
2. Membrane
Aired 29 October 2001 • 30 min
A government department secretly works on a project to search the human genome for Creation itself. However, it has all gone terribly wrong, as a team of young scientists soon discovers.
3. Necromance
Aired 5 November 2001 • 30 min
A young girl has a crush on a Goth rebel in her school who is also into necrophilia. She kills herself, then comes back from the dead in an attempt to attract him to her.
4. Eater
Aired 12 November 2001 • 30 min
When a serial killer is put in cells for the night, the duty team learn that their charge is a shapeshifter who takes the form of any human he feeds on. Before long, the cops have to figure out which of them is really a wolf in uniform.
5. Serotonin Wild
Aired 19 November 2001 • 30 min
A bright young psychiatrist sets out to cure a young woman suffering from a compulsive disorder. But after he has persuaded her that her rituals are meaningless and do not protect her from evil, he realises to his horror that she may have been right all along.
6. The End
Aired 25 December 2001 • 30 min
A story within a story is interrupted by a strange pirate broadcast warning of disturbances on the street — but is it all an elaborate hoax?
7. Ritual Slaughter
Aired 26 November 2001 • 30 min
A sinister guidance counsellor tests teenagers to see if they could become serial killers — but are these tests reliable?.
8. Dollhouse Burns (1)
Aired 28 December 2001 • 30 min
An agent investigates the discovery of a teenager frozen in a genetic laboratory. Along the way, she unearths a secret society that has seriously lost its way.
9. Dollhouse Burns (2)
Aired 28 December 2001 • 30 min
Jude continues his quest against 'the heart' and must face his lost love and his arch-nemesis.