Dave Wrote This

You get a bonus point just for the headline of the RD post.

I also got into Red Dwarf through the III Byte 1 video and it belonged to my friend’s brother! Though I reckon I saw it in 2000. I found series 1 and 2 in a charity shop (looking back they were probably there because the DVDs had come out) and enjoyed them and then, as happens when one is young, I got distracted by other things and didn’t really watch the show for a while.

I bought the III DVD a few years later after Gold went through a re-run of the series and reminded me of how great it was. I didn’t catch many episodes (I remember seeing Camille, The Inquisitor and Gunmen on TV) but it was enough to get me to buy III on DVD. It was a couple of months before VI came out because I remember picking that up on release and buying IV at the same time.

Funny thing is, I remember seeing Red Dwarf a few years before I saw that III VHS. I remember channel flicking and seeing a clip of VI. Pretty sure it was Emohawk. Even though I didn’t actually watch the show I remember seeing Kryten in Starbug (I’m almost certain it was the scene with the guitar just after the crash) and just thinking the robot was the coolest looking thing. Literally just saw the shortest clip, took note of nothing but the visuals but visually it had such an impact that when I got into the show years later I still remembered exactly what I had seen. Hence me being 99% sure it was Emohawk.

This is excellent, Dave.