BBC Genome listings

[cwickham]

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.

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[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

Oh, just watch it?

I’d expect that from a gaggle of work experience lads at TV Times but not the Radio Times.

[(deleted)]

Someone with no sense of humour has ruined the “Danny John-Jules as ?” wonderfulness.

[Jonsmad]

Nice.

Anyone ever see this???

Nine oclock news 1995

Plus, in a special re port from the Whitbury Leisure Centre, Nicholas Witchell falls foul of the fund-raising efforts of Chris Barrie and his staff at The Brittas Empire.

[Ben Paddon]

I’d expect that from a gaggle of work experience lads at TV Times but not the Radio Times.

As memory serves, Rob & Doug wrotes the Radio Times listings themselves back in the day. Can someone brighter than me (and there are seven billion qualified persons for this position) confirm this potentially half-misremembered faux-fact for me?

[cwickham]

Yes, the RT listings used to be sent in by the production team. David Renwick sent in deliberately misleading synopses for “One Foot in the Grave”.

[Ben Paddon]

I seem to remember one that ended “Can Rimmer save the day? No.” That was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen at the time. It left an indelible mark upon my sense of humor.

[Pete Tranter’s Sister]

Like a leukaemia scar?

[Ben Paddon]

…

Yes.

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