Radio Times

[Jonsmad]

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5260/fawlty_towers_tops_sitcom_list/

I looked in the radio times yesterday cus it had fawlty towers on the cover. Seems it was because it topped a poll of voted best 20 sitcoms. Red Dwarf wasnt in there, but alongside shows I like, there was Gavin and stacey, dinnerladies, likely lads and dads army that i havnt really seen all of. Plus while I rate the detectorists as a show, it didnt always hit sitcom levels with me. So I was about the launch my mind into “what the hell do the readers of radio times know about anything” style reactionary thoughts, when I spotted one of the people who voted the list was Doug Naylor! Oh well that’s why Porridge gets a good place then! I guess not enough of the other “comedy experts” on the panel like sci fi then.

[Dave]

Shocking!! I was told I couldn’t vote for my all time favourite sit-com.

— Doug Naylor (@DougRDNaylor) April 9, 2019

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Clearly there is a conspiracy

That or the Radio Times isn’t interested in the audiences Red Dwarf attracts any more.

[si]

We’re okay, the Daily Mirror’s got our backs. They’ve obviously watched at least four minutes of the first episode.

OFFICIAL: #RedDwarf is funny. pic.twitter.com/iyylKnYCJs

— Si (@bromley001) April 10, 2019

[Dave]

I guess they could have gone for the welding mallet joke instead.

[Flap Jack]

I know it’s not strictly on topic, but may I use this opportunity to complain about how unusably shite the Radio Times website is?

Because the Radio Times website is unusably shite.

[si]

The Radio Times website used to be okay, but it’s turned into a sensationalist clickbait tabloid showbiz page.

[Flap Jack]

If only it was just clickbait… I tried looking up some TV listings yesterday, and just trying to get search results caused the browser tab to crash! =S

[si]

You know something? I’d completely forgotten that they actually have listings on the website.

[Flap Jack]

…

Understandable.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

The question is … do they still have radio listings?

[Unrumble]

Found this scrapbook in my parents attic. Cut from the Radio Times in 1999 by 12 year old me.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Ok so the 3rd one is obviously Cassandra, even if that is misrepresenting the episode some what.

But the 1st and 2nd make no sense. Series VIII is the series you can least describe as the characters getting into the finer points of space travel. And Cat being in love, when did that happen?

[Warbodog]

I wonder if Doug supplied a vague description of Cat ‘reflecting on true love’ as a joke for fans in the know, and the copy editor completely missed the point?

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Yeah possibly

[cwickham]

Is it possible that the second one is from the repeat runs from 2000 and Series VIII images were just easier to find? There was a repeat of Camille on 15/09/00 at 9pm so that might fit. (The description for the first one seems like something suitably vague made up to fit the image. It might even be from the Autumn 1999 repeat run of VIII.)

[Warbodog]

Or we all just collectively forgot this detail of one of the most infamous scenes in Red Dwarf history.

[Ian Symes]

Is it not Back In The Red (Part Three), and it’s a reference to the ground controller?

EDIT: Oh, the image in the post above wasn’t showing up when I posted that!

[Dave]

Is it not Back In The Red (Part Three), and it’s a reference to the ground controller?

EDIT: Oh, the image in the post above wasn’t showing up when I posted that!

[cwickham]

“The girl of his dreams” might actually be quite clever then if it’s intentional

[Jenuall]

Don’t the Radio Times usually just make up any old crap to accompany images? I don’t think there’s value in reading too much into those captions!

[GlenTokyo]

Don’t the Radio Times usually just make up any old crap to accompany images? I don’t think there’s value in reading too much into those captions!

Been a while since I read the Radio Times, but in my experience they usually have vague but accurate descriptions, occasionally picking a random plot point to be very accurate about to the point that they spoil something.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Didn’t they give away the Polymorph reveal in Can of Worms the week the episode aired?

Or something similar to that?

[Jenuall]

To be fair I would have loved someone to spoil Can of Worms for me so I wouldn’t have had to watch it

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