Smeg Ups I havn’t seen before

Love it! Nice bit of tension between Craig and Chris during DNA plus extended robo cack.

I’m guessing these little bits never made it onto the DVDs because they only exist in this quality.

My sources (Ian Symes) tell me that it’s an early cut of Smeg Ups.

> tell me that it’s an early cut of Smeg Ups.

It’s a hastily slapped-together smeg ups video that was put together to show to a studio audience, as well as cast and crew. Obviously not to record laughter for it, just to show them.

His staggering intellect.

What audience was it shown to? It’s Series IV, V and VI clips, so it wasn’t the tape shown to the DJ ’93 audience. And there wasn’t a Red Dwarf studio audience between then and when the VHS was released in ’94. The next GNP audience was Series VII’s play-in, and then the 10th anniversary recording (to whom various things were shown, but not that tape).

Seems unlikely that GNP compiled a tape to show to someone else’s crew or audience. So could your source clarify the detail?

> maybe the series VI footage came fresh from the rushes?

But what about the rest? The Series V and IV rushes weren’t ordered up until the Smeg Up project was greenlit and kicked off – which happened after the VI-only tape was compiled for DJ ’93. It’s hugely expensive to get those tapes out, logged and transferred – no way they do that without allocated budget. Doesn’t seem likely.

Plus, when a series hasn’t even finished being written despite mid-shoot, it’s hugely unlikely that Rob and Doug were approving ‘just for fun’ outtakes videos, or that the production team had time to knock such things up from seasons they mostly didn’t even work on (different directors, producers, etc.).

But since I don’t know the providence, I could’t say for certain.

Nope!

> couldn’t said studio audience have been the latter stages of series VI?

Apparently it was for VI so, yep, it’s got to be this. As for clips from the other series’, heck only knows, but someone obviously went out of their way to compile them.

Maybe the Smeg Ups reel was originally going to be a bonus feature on the VI video releases, but then got expanded into its own feature when they realised how much material they had?