Frank Lewis

[Frank Lewis]

Not going to click and feed, but I thought this was a nice, real photo of the cast.

Oh, I was going to bring up Stasis Leak, and Out of Time. Why are there TWO Listers?!? What were any of them plugging (singles/videos?)

…And what were they smoking?

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My free Prime membership (that I activate and immediately cancel once every couple of years when I buy something off Amazon) just expired, tragically.

Damn Cheeky. I loved the Simpsons Zombies.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 07/08/2026 

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Kryten in 2; – recognized the Lace.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 29/07/2026 

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Gunmen of the Apocalypse. Brett Riverboat. Got it at the last Second.

Try for yourself: https://smegle.ganymede.tv

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 27/07/2026 

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Queeg in 4.

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I have to admit.. I’m struggling a bit with the slow pace. I got halfway through “City” and switched to “Robots” for a break. I love the world and the robots, but I’m finding the royal people in charge of the craft a bit wearying – they sound like they’re all acting different plays and yelling in weirdly clashing tones to each other. I’ve still got Fang Rock and Dalek Invasion of Earth to watch, and I’ve ordered the first Leela story with her forest tribe as I think i have memories of seeing it as a kid.

And once, I abruptly ran into the end of one of the parts, seeing Xoanon’s Baker Head go “NO… NO… NOOO!!!!!!!!!)

Hee hee hee, so surreal.

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i didn’t have the foggest notion TLC had this one. I should check for it in the Listings.

I really agree with the person in Robert’s Substack comments who said this:

I sincerely hope that someone outside of the general fandom might
want to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first episode by
producing the special Doug wrote that UKTV lost interest in. TLC seem to
be trying to get into the warm seat Dave has vacated now it’s
U&Dave and dropped their comedy output, so who knows…

TLC revived Mock The Week earlier this year and have since commissioned 5 more series. They seem to be using it to try and draw audiences to their new panel shows (one of which they commissioned a second extended series of before the first one went out so they’re certainly not short on money). Although they are only commissioning panel shows now, this time last year they hadn’t commissioned any comedy but have been expanding since so I think it’s only a matter of time until they do something scripted. I can’t see why Red Dwarf can’t be their scripted equivalent of Mock The Week, brining TLC high ratings whilst also giving them an opportunity to advertise their other shows.

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Then another one, with The Promised Land:

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Parallel Universe

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Rimmerworld

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I saw First Contact at the Cinema, too. As well as the other TNG-Era Films and STXI.

I got a Polaroid taken once of me in a little 2-person transporter like on Space Station K-7.

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Queeg.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 05/07/2026 

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DNA, Polymorph, Holoship, Balance of (Boobed) Terror, Backwards

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The one near where I live has been fucked since 2017.

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…anymore.

Best said in that cheezy scratchy voice some 12-year-olds use when they try and do cheezy dark Batman acts.

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Dimension Jump, Justice, Demons and Angels, Meltdown, White Hole

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I mean, it doesn’t even mention (from memory) the 1998 re-releases (that stopped at season 4 or 5), the four-episode rental exclusives, the Borg Box, the 10 “feature-length TV movie” re-releases, the Best of Both Worlds “Greatest Battles” re-release, trivia like some cover screenshots mistakenly using rehearsal footage and some episodes being the wrong way around. Probably because it’s the show’s main Wikipedia page and not a deep page on a dedicated fan wiki, I guess.

Thanks for listing all those. I wish the total planned Wolf 359 Battle for DS9’s Emissary was available online.

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Earthshock is not quite as engaging at 31 as it was at 11, but it’s still enjoyable. Using the fact that Adric’s star for mathematical excellence is made of gold as a weapon against the Cybermen is fantastic Chekhov’s Gun stuff, from one season and two script editors prior. I really like this Cyberman getting stuck in the door shield, and I love how it’s always been obvious that the final shot of episode 3 is just the same shot duplicated three times.

The Earthshock Cyberman design has always been my favorite. Its so charming.

Ditto. My favourite out of all the Cybermen. I’ve got a PDF’d copy of FASA’s Cyberman Sourcebook for their Dr Who RPG, which is excellent.

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Dimension Jump in one!!!

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Elementary for him.

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Does anyone on this forum like any of Doctor Who at all?

I do; mostly Classic Series, with various Virgin & BBC Novels, 90s’ AOL Sims, & Big Finish thrown in

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Timeslides in 1.

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He tried to leave after Davison’s last season (20) but was told there would be nobody to replace him. Same again after Season 22, same again after Season 23.

21, 21!!!

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When I was a kid I played through the space Quest games, king’s quest 4, and I really love this mixed up fairy tales game with this Dragon Called Bookwyrm, and a scary hairy (pun intended) villain called Bookend. Nice and short.

In April 1998 when I got into Adventure Creator (which was later retitled Adventure Game Studio, or AGS) I really loved demo quest, which used the photograph of some town in Britain with a few brick buildings in the background, & a white van in the background that was really really really really really really realistic at the time, and I later loved other AGS made games, including this Star Trek the Next Generation parody where picard gets drunk, loses a poker game and all to some Pirates, and they have to hand over there clothes & the Enterprise D and data and then picard goes “Worf, Data, run for it!!!!! I’ll take care of these two…” then they escape, then when the demo ended, the ship was damaged in orbit around some jungle planet, and data went missing.

too bad the guy who made that game never finished it. it was really funny!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤩

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If it’s not actively taking money away from the original artists, and the people doing it aren’t taking in a massive profit, and the quality is good, I have no ethical issues with it.

True.

Plus some of this is (in no particular order), Educational/Weird/Funny.

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Bodyswap in one.

Try for yourself: https://smegle.ganymede.tv/casual/5e0396a53494385c8669329bd7c74bd5

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 31/05/2026 

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Bodyswap in 2!!! Direct Hit!!!

Try for yourself: https://smegle.ganymede.tv

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Got the 1st Simulant in one go!!!

Try for yourself: https://smegle.ganymede.tv/casual/e305f807721e261a6a9fed7170be33ef

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Oops. forgot.

Will include it next time.

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“we were trying to heal you”

I misheard Cat, Quarantine. Not my fault. Sometimes Danny mumbles.

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Got Timeslides in 3.

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I got Back To Earth (Earthprime, Earthlike?!?)

[Frank Lewis]

I’ll be honest, I’ve never understood the anger the resolution gets. Although maybe that’s because I was sure that’s how it would resolve, because… well, it makes sense. I explained it to a kid at school and he was unconvinced and then I felt very smug when the pre-credits scene came along.
I dunno, maybe a sci-fi cliffhanger should have a resolution an 11 year old can’t guess but I felt satisfied. 
Of course they should have gone back to get the time drive and used it to get Red Dwarf back and then stole it from themselves making the whole arc a bootstrap paradox, removing the necessity for STARDISbug, and relegating VIII as we know it to non-existence, but then I’ve made this point before.

I’m all for eliminating VIII.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 28/04/2026 

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Got it on the 2nd guess: “Stoke Me a Clipper”.

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Yeah, but at least in yours, the light above Lister’s bunk didn’t read “IFC TOGA ANRONT []”

Gonna be slightly cunty and point out how incredibly easy this would be to fix with Photoshop or GIMP or whatever.

Still funny, innit’.

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Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together on a JMC Mining Ship Grooving in Groove Town:
Hamsters are to animals in Red Dwarf what “Frank” is to names in Red Dwarf:

Lemmings are not far behind:

Plus a few gerbils:

Also some mice (“albino mouse droppings” – “Mickey Mouse? We ain’t even Betty Boop!” – “Wait, I know this game, it’s called ‘cat and mouse’.” – “It’s not a mouse, ma’am. It’s Archie.”) and of course: 

Indeed.

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Justice.

Got it in one go just by looking at the Hallway, with NOTHING in it.

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On that Rimmer getting beaten silly with the VHS Tape; I liked the reference to an obscure movies, and Rimmer’s Hobbyism (one of the few watchable things about the dreck that is RDVIII).

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I misheard Danny in White Hole; – thought he’d been referring to Rimmer & Kryten as Weirdly Named Characters from obscure cartoons.

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#RedDwarf #Smegle 05/03/2026 

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Back to Earth, Part I

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