did RD ever try the "characters dressed as women" joke?

[By Jove its holmes]

After reading about the old time-y use of the men in drag joke – which has fallen out of favour as it implies that there’s something shameful about dressing as/being a woman, I was wondering if RD ever used it?

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[Jonsmad]

If you mean the TV trope. Yes.

Rimmer & the cast dressed in Gingham dresses in Quarantine, on the basis of going Mad, and later revenge. The Cat Dressed as a nurse in Back in The Red, as a disguise to try and escape. Rimmer world had female clones of Rimmer played by Chris Barrie (though you most saw only the face and make up. Rimmer wore stockings in Demon’s and Angels as a creepy low character.

You could argue a techno variation of drag for the hologramatic Rimmer in Kochanski’s body in the early series, though it’s not really on screen drag. In beat the geek there is a scene of norman wearing a Hattie wig, that might be the only example of head only in Drag on screen in tv comedy.

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