The Red Dwarf Programme Guide

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I got to thinking last night – isn’t it about time we had a new update of the Programme Guide? There’s the 30th coming up, and there’s been 21 episodes and eighteen years since the last ‘Revised Edition’.
Just pray that if there is a new version, the cover logo design is better than that bizarre thing on the front of the 1994 edition.

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[Warbodog]

Bruce Dessau hasn’t updated The Official Red Dwarf Companion since series 5. Lazy.

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And it wasn’t the fountain of all knowledge to start with.

[Ian Symes]

Red Dwarf: The Complete Guide To Almost Everything

[Pete Part Three]

1/3 of that book was great. 2/3 of it was an A-Z, which I don’t ever glanced at.

[Plastic Percy]

Some of it was a bit inaccurate, but almost Hitchhikers Guide ‘definitively accurate’. Like claiming Bodysnatcher would be the final episode of the first series and Rimmer would go mad and try to build a new body using parts from Lister’s, culminating in Kochanski returning as a hologram.

Still, I remember getting the third edition (with Blue Midget on the cover) as a birthday present when I was about 11 and reading it on a cold day in January, travelling down into London.

[Nick R]

The authors really seemed to have it in for Smeg Ups.

I wonder what they thought of the way blooper reels subsequently become a staple of DVD bonus features? I like to imagine them picking up DVDs in MVC, then angrily discarding them when they discover “gag reel” listed amongst the extras.

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I met Steve Lyons once at a Doctor Who thing. Didn’t mention this though as he looked pissed off.

[By Jove its holmes]

Steve Lyons always looked pissed off. Ditto Ian Levine.

[John Hoare]

The Programme Guide had loads of weird ideas. They were weird at the time, and they’re weirder now.

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