Overseas Edits

[Dave]

It’s so weird to think of there being a period where it was difficult to get hold of seasons I-VI (especially in the modern age of everything being available everywhere).

As someone who came in around V and caught up on the big repeat run, I never experienced that sense of the ‘lost years’ in the same way (although I remember it being a pretty big deal when the first series came out on VHS).

[bloodteller]

wasn’t the Series I VHS repeatedly delayed because everyone involved (wrongly) thought it was shit?

[Warbodog]

Wouldn’t we have got a new release of double-packs for I-VI to replace the deleted tapes if only Doug hadn’t vetoed the crap covers?

As suggested by this thread: https://www.ganymede.tv/forums/topic/unreleased-red-dwarf-vhs-covers/

I would have bought all of them. Seems like a weird oversight that those never existed.

[bloodteller]

there’s a bit in the VIII Scriptbook on Doug Naylor rejecting what (I think) are those VHS covers.

“The video cover people like to take a photograph that’s out of focus, ideally from the wrong series, carefully ensuring the member of the cast is in the wrong costume before they get a colour-blind ape to draw a starfield with his left foot. They then invite me to a meeting and ask me what I think of the cover.”

He makes a fair argument, i mean how/why would you put Rimmer from Holoship in his Enlightenment outfit on a VI cover?

also “Polymorph 2: Emo” is hilarious

[Pete Part Three]

And Hilly on a Series IV cover. And a Series IV Kryten mask on a Series III cover.

[Ben Saunders]

Series III is almost ok.

The real mystery of that thread is how somebody managed to edit their own post.

[Pete Part Three]

Oh, the edit button used to work in the forum but it…fell off.

[Warbodog]

Holoship Rimmer and High Rimmer also randomly showed up on the abridged audiobook sleeves to show that Chris Barrie was narrating, but at least those photos were in focus. This is like the BBC were putting out their own pirate videos.

Maybe the first draft of Blackadder II had the cast in World War I uniforms or a photo of Mr Bean before revisions. Even for Bottom, where it wouldn’t matter if they accidentally used a publicity shot of Richie and Eddie pulling faces in 1991 to represent 1995 episodes, I remember they got it right.

[Dave]

There was that Brittas Empire series 3 VHS where they accidentally used the image of Rimmer stripped and oiled from Terrorform.

[Moonlight]

The photos used for the Series I Remastered Byte Two cover are pretty infuriatingly wrong, inexplicably using Rimmer from VI and what looks to be a VII Cat. It seems a pathetically incompetent oversight to use a Series I photo on the first Series I tape and then randomly grab a photo of the same character in a totally different costume from years down the line. But then the Remastered and VII/VIII covers are obnoxiously bland compared to the original releases, particularly in comparing to Series I’s gorgeous painted cover art.

Still, nothing looks worse than the VII covers. Those are inexcusably bad, using the same horrific stretched cast photo for all three covers. Rimmer and Lister for Byte One, pan over to Cat and Kryten for Byte Two, and zoom out to all four for Byte Three even though Rimmer isn’t even on the tape.

[flanl3]

Pete Part 2 – One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing

EPILOGUE:

The second dinosaur, not as bright as the first one, hid in Lister’s clean sock drawer and died of old age.

[bloodteller]

it’s 3AM and i have nothing better to do so here’s some more of the japanese episode titles.

The End- It Started At The End

Stasis Leak- Greetings From The Past And Future

Polymorph- Penetration! The Metamorphosis Alien

Timeslides- Become A Millionaire By Changing Your Past

Tikka To Ride- Human History Changed By Curry

Entangled- ERRA: The Correct Answer Full Of Mistakes

Backwards- Earth Turns In Reverse

again, if anyone with better knowledge of the language wants to correct me on these feel free (i am not very good) but to my knowledge these are the titles. it’s odd how some of these are rather crap compared to stuff like “Friendship Falls On A Snowy Planet” for Marooned and “The Gift Of A Nightmare Game” for Better Than Life. did the title bloke run out of ideas, i wonder?

[International Debris]

The photos used for the Series I Remastered Byte Two cover are pretty infuriatingly wrong

I thought all the Remastered covers were drawings? Mine didn’t feature any photos on the cover that I remember.

[International Debris]

Oh, I’ve just found this

That’s nasty.

[Dave]

Christ. They look like cosplayers.

[bloodteller]

why is rimmer pulling a face like he’s just had a fuel rod up his arse

[cwickham]

It’s from the new Remastered epilogue to “Waiting for God”, which reveals that the second fuel rod, which was much less intelligent than the first, stowed away in Rimmer’s arse – where it died of old age many years later.

[Dave]

why is rimmer pulling a face like he’s just had a fuel rod up his arse

Presumably they’ve just moved onto the seventh page.

[Ben Saunders]

Christ that photo. There’s something so spectacularly off about it, especially Danny’s hair.

[Pete Part Three]

Danny’s wig is making a break for it.

[Dave]

“….and Miles Jupp as Arnold J Rimmer…”

[International Debris]

Not the most consistent range in general, although none of these come close to the Waiting for God monstrosity…

Where’s this image from?

Pre-accident Rimmer and Lister in Series 2, there.

That one’s not so bad.

Genny Mutant getting a cover feature.

The Sensational Reverse Brothers on the wrong video.

[cwickham]

That first one looks like it’s from The End – The Original Assembly: https://www.ganymede.tv/2012/07/dwarfcast-35-the-end-original-assembly-commentary/

[International Debris]

Oh, is it the elbow-titting scene? How in God’s name did that end up on a VHS cover?

[Ben Saunders]

>Pre-accident Rimmer and Lister in Series 2, there.
Well, Stasis Lea- fucking hell

[MANI506]

The elbow titting picture was intriguing when I first saw it in the Red Dwarf companion. I must have been waiting for Rimmer to wear that jacket and point his finger out when series 1 was finally released the following year.

[Ian Symes]

Yes, that was a relatively commonly-used publicity photo considering we didn’t know exactly where it came from until 2007.

[bloodteller]

>Yes, that was a relatively commonly-used publicity photo considering we didn’t know exactly where it came from until 2007.

but the Series I DVD came out in 2002, and it was on the Deleted Scenes in that.

> been waiting for Rimmer to wear that jacket

he doesn’t actually wear the jacket in the “elbow titting” scene at all, he’s just in his regular shirt and tie

[bloodteller]

he also points his finger directly towards the screen in the elbow titting scene, wheras in that picture he’s pointing off to his right.

so where that photo is really from is still a mystery, maybe

[Pete Part Three]

This is true. It’s in neither the assembly cut or the deleted scenes.

I suspect it’s simply a publicity photo, to go alongside ones like this.

There weren’t a huge amount of them for series 1, so the same one gets re-used endlessly.

[Pete Part Three]

OH FUCK THE EDIT BUTTON.

It’s the photo of Kochanski, Lister and Rimmer looking down a coridoor. Rimmer’s saluting, Kochanski’s doing a cheeky smile and Lister’s looking pissed off with a cigarette in his mouth. You know the one.

[Ian Symes]

but the Series I DVD came out in 2002, and it was on the Deleted Scenes in that.

I hereby tender my resignation.

[cwickham]

Could it be a picture from rehearsals? That might explain why he’s wearing a jacket which isn’t especially Rimmer-esque, or fitting with the Series I aesthetic.

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