Inside No. 9
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Series one DVD cover, featuring Pemberton (top) and Shearsmith (bottom) as they appeared in episode 1, "Sardines"
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 18 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Jon Plowman |
| Producer(s) | Adam Tandy |
| Location(s) | Various |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC Comedy |
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| Picture format | HDTV (1080i) |
| Original release | 5 February 2014 – present |
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 "The Inventors"Online-only episode of Inside No. 9 |
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"Boo" Carl (Pemberton) finds Rebecca (Katherine Parkinson) and Ian (Tim Key) in the wardrobe. Taken from episode 1, "Sardines". |
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"A canine inconvenience" Burglars Eddie (Pemberton) and Ray (Shearsmith) are almost revealed by a barking dog. Taken from episode 2, "A Quiet Night In". |
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"I'm not a vampire" Katy (Aimee-Ffion Edwards) is introduced to Hector (Shearsmith) by Tabitha (Helen McCrory). Taken from episode 6, "The Harrowing". |
Inside No. 9 is a British dark comedy anthology television programme written by Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton and produced by the BBC. The first series was broadcast between 5 February and 12 March 2014 on BBC Two, and a second series aired from 26 March to 29 April 2015. Each half-hour episode is a self-contained story with new characters and a new setting, and all star at least one (usually both) of Pemberton and Shearsmith. Aside from the writers, each episode has a new cast, allowing Inside No. 9 to attract a number of well-known actors. The stories are linked only by the fact that each takes place at a number 9, with settings including a suburban house, a gothic mansion and a barn. Pemberton and Shearsmith took inspiration for Inside No. 9 from an episode of Psychoville, a previous project, which was filmed in a single room. This episode was, in turn, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's Rope. Inside No. 9 was also a reaction to Psychoville, which featured a long overarching story realised over multiple series.
Themes and tone vary from episode-to-episode, but all have elements of comedy and horror. The first series contained six episodes. "Sardines" concerns a game of sardines at an engagement party. "A Quiet Night In", an episode almost entirely free of dialogue, follows a pair of hapless burglars breaking into a modernist house. In "Tom & Gerri", an aspiring novelist invites a homeless man into his flat. "Last Gasp" sees a popstar die while blowing up a balloon at a sick child's birthday party. In "The Understudy", an understudy in a West End production of Macbeth longs for the lead role. The series's final episode was "The Harrowing", a gothic horror story in which a schoolgirl housesits a mansion belonging to a brother and sister. An online-only episode composed of cinemagraphs, "The Inventors", was also released by the BBC, but was not written by Pemberton and Shearsmith. The second series also contained six episodes. "La Couchette" follows a group of passengers on a French sleeper carriage, while "The 12 Days of Christine" tells the story of a young woman's life. "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge" is a period piece concerning a witch trial in a 17th-century village. "Cold Comfort" follows a number of characters working at a crisis hotline call centre. "Nana's Party" involves family secrets being revealed during a grandmother's birthday party. The final episode, "Séance Time", begins with a young woman visiting a medium. A third and fourth series have been commissioned, the third airing early 2017 and the fourth scheduled for 2018. The first episode of series 3 was a Christmas special, "The Devil of Christmas", which aired on 27 December 2016, followed by the remainder of the series beginning in February 2017.
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