h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For a while on CBC tv, they showed episodes of a wildly idiotic and occasionally hilarious Australian (I think?) tv show, spoof of a soap opera. Each week the characters would get turn each other into vampires, perform spewing bloody operations while drunk, make love on top of corpses or patients, maybe with corpses or patients, etc. Frantically paced, and just stupid enough to be really funny.

Unfortunately it was listed in the tv guide as "Drop The Dead Donkey," which I know was a sitcom about working at a newspaper.

Can anyone tell me what this hospital soap opera parody was starring "Matron Conniving Bitch?"

A reply after nearly 2 and a half years - is this a record? You've probably forgotten you asked the question...

Anyway, the show was called 'Let the Blood Run Free'. I'd forgotten all about it, except it got a mention in the papers the other day; Lynda Gibson, who played Matron, died on Friday. Cancer, I think it was.

Rather a grim footnote, sorry.

Woolfcub.

I used to love this show. It used ot be on late on a Thursday night here in the UK and I used to watch it when I came in from the pub and crack up every week. It was great.