Theatre Macabre

S1 E81971

The System of Dr Tarr and Professor Fether

Episode Synopsis

A narrator visits a French mental asylum where the 'soothing system' of patient-led care has been overthrown by a new, more severe method, only for the narrator to discover the 'doctors' are actually the patients, and the 'keepers' are those locked away, tarred and feathered.

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