The Dark Room, a 1988 television play by Julian Gloag subsequently adapted into his novel Chambre d'ombre (1996) The Dark-room is a small area used to develop films. There is also a typewriter and item box in this room. Dark room (sexuality), a darkened room, sometimes located in a nightclub, gay bathhouse or sex club, where sexual activity can take place

The female leads are particularly outstanding here. Dervla Kirwan is especially effective in the exhausting role of the coma victim. Red herrings, family secrets, and powerful people jostle for posititon and the police procedural side of the story gets a good chunk of the attention, too. A rather old fashioned and stubborn senior policeman is struggling with his female junior who clearly knows her job. A brain injuries consultant attends to a patient who awakes from a coma and remembers nothing about how she got there. As they both try to piece together what happened to her life, family tensions cause complications.