BBC Genome listings

If anyone wasn’t already aware, the BBC Genome project now allows you to look up the RT listings for just about anything, including Red Dwarf. I’ve picked out some notable ones:

– The original broadcast of Me2 gives Chris Barrie two credits. The listing has been mangled but it seems that it originally stated “tonight’s special guest star: Chris Barrie”.
– Better Than Life boasts “special guest stars Napoleon Bonaparte and Marilyn Monroe”. I imagine that this was subsequently recycled for the “Adolf Hitler as himself” gag in Timeslides (which isn’t used in the listing for that episode).
– For Parallel Universe, The Dog is credited as Pooch. Charles Augins also gets a credit for choreography.
– Backwards begins to paraphrase the opening scroll, then ends in “oh, just watch it”. (It also seems “The Saga Continuums” was used as a subtitle for all the listings of Series III’s original run.)
– Lia Williams receives a credit for doing the voice of Carol Brown in Bodyswap, in spite of not being credited on the episode itself.
– No preview tapes were available for Series VIII. I wonder why.