The BBC's Guide to Comedy
This is a simply excellent website. Something in the region of 15,000 shows, mainly BBC but with a good selection of programmes from other channels, are included in the BBCi Guide To Comedy, and, naturally, Red Dwarf is one of them. The entries are by Mark Lewisohn, and were published in 1998 as the quite superb Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy; they have however been significantly revised for both the website and an upcoming new edition of the book.
Anyway, the write-up on Red Dwarf is a good one, with the exception of the following mistakes:
- Red Dwarf is described as a "21st-century deep-space mining ship". This could be true, but then again, it could not. In Stasis Leak, the crew travelled back to 2077, in DNA, Lister describes himself as a twenty-third century guy, and in Ouroboros, Lister gets abandoned in 2155.
- It is stated that Son of Clich� ran for eight editions in 1983. However, there was also a further series of eight, in 1984.
- It is claimed that Rimmer bowed out in the episode shown on 14th Febuary 1997 (Blue), and that this was followed by Kochanski's return. Whilst Blue is the last episode to feature Chris Barrie, the character of Rimmer left in Stoke Me A Clipper (24th January 1997). Kochanski was already there when Chris made his final appearance of the series.
- The paragraph on the Re-Mastered series can fuck off.
- Hattie Hayridge is credited as playing Holly in Series 3-6, when in fact she didn't appear in Series 6.
- Robert Llewellyn is only credited as Kryten for Series 3-7; he was obviously in Series 8 as well.
- Clare Grogan is credited as playing Kochanski in Series 1 & 2, but she also appeared in one episode of Series VI.
You can also browse the database by person. Have a look at: Chloe Annett, Chris Barrie, Ed Bye, Craig Charles, Rob Grant, Hattie Hayridge, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett or Doug Naylor. Or don't. I don't care.
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