United Kingdom, July 14 -- Richard Gadd has revealed an entire episode of Baby Reindeer was dropped.

The 36-year-old comic wrote and starred in the award-winning Netflix series - which is based on his real life experiences with a stalker - had been told when developing the show that it was "too dark" and so he penned an installment in which his character Donny Dunn visited his parents to escape the unwanted attentions of Martha (Jessica Gunning).

Speaking at the Future Visions conference in Melbourne, Australia, he said: "I remember when we were developing it, there was the note that kept coming in, and probably rightfully so, about ''The show is just too dark. You need to give us a respite.'"

The cut episode featured Donny "escaping" ...