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Reminds me how cool the Red Dwarf III titles are as well as demonstrating how they could be even cooler.

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I hate Archers, The Archers and Jeffrey Archer.

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The end of Beyond A Joke could fuck right off on first broadcast too! I don’t mind it so much these days…

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The same disappointment was there for series VIII (excluding BITR1 and Cassandra).

The ending of Back To Earth part two was way too much WTF but I don’t think I was disappointed.

Dear Dave and Entangled made me a bit sad inside. Aside from that I’ve really enjoyed the last twenty years of Dwarf.

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I was a Simpsons addict until I saw the episode with Kid Rock when the family went to Florida. Not sure what season that is but I remember how disappointed I was. At least the movie was good and a recent episode set in Iceland was good too.

Most disappointed I’ve been with Red Dwarf is probably the end of Emohawk. First time I thought ‘is that it?’ on first broadcast.

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Doug has successfully destroyed the Red Dwarf holiday special.

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It’s true, we’re lucky to be alive and very lucky to have two new series to look forward to. This is a true story, on new years day 1993 I had a bike accident (totally not serious or life threatening). I genuinely thought to myself ‘I can’t die now, I still haven’t seen series one of Red Dwarf.’

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On the intro cast Heath and Angela responded very strongly to BITR part one. I also think that as a half hour it is very good, especially as a reaction to VII. I laughed heartily at the French movie star dialogue and it was so good to see Chris and Norman back. I’m convinced that most of the good reviews on the back of the VIII script book are for this episode.

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I remember Douglas saying at the time of the tenth anniversary that he felt he owed the fans a really funny Red Dwarf novel after the dramatic direction of Last Human so it was definitely his intention to make series VIII as funny as possible too.

It’s a shame we have to take the rough with the smooth with VII and VIII. I’ve always thought that there are two decent six part series in there.

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I remember Stephen Hawking in the A-Z saying how he loves that Red Dwarf doesn’t take itself too seriously. So I choose to watch VIII in that spirit.

I would recommend the fan edits of Pete and Every Dog… on Daily Motion as the best way to revisit the series. Every Dog… In particular makes the last episode so much better

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In many ways I find VIII the most fascinating series of all. All the series have their own distinctive tones but VIII is completely out on it’s own. It’s full of contradictions. It’s one of the least loved, yet one of the most successful in terms of initial audience and reviews. It has an amazing model sequence in episode one, but it’s surrounded by CGI. It has skutters, but one of them is in a stomach. It is funny, but it’s also stupid.

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The Dennis The Donut Boy line might be my second favourite joke in VIII after Git Central.

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A real Mickey Mouse operation.

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I’m singing the Jez’s Coffee Lounge Cock jingle to myself. Crying and wanking.

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Also, I’m not able to save enough money Si!

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Unfortunately I won’t be able to because in between the last DJ and this one I married a girl from Austin Texas and I’m in the process of relocating to America. I showed her series 2 and she laughed at Cat saying ‘I’d prefer chicken’. She also totally thought Holly was leaving at the end of Queeg.
So I’ll be glued to G & T over the DJ weekend and it looks like I’ll be buying series XI on region 1 DVD.
I went to DJ 97, 98 and 09. They were all brilliant and I made lifelong friends.

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Danny says ‘fish’ in a very catty way. Definitely a deliberate nod to Dwarf fans!

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I used to love Men Behaving Badly. Very specifically the fourth series where the characters were fully formed and it was brilliantly rude. They lost it by series five and the back half of series six was starting to look a bit desperate. I did enjoy this little skit. They seem to have slipped back into character.

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Thank you to you and all at Team G & T. I love the enthusiasm and I’ve been inspired to rediscover or discover many classic comedys after reading the articles. I forgot how great End Of An Era is (she’ s not dead yet). Last years Story of the Twos is amazing as well. Any news on further Dwarf Casts? I am looking forward to the next one which reportedly covers one of the shit episodes.

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This turned out to be a treat. I could listen to fans discussing Dwarf until the cows come home. Favourite moments have been the initial reactions to VI, VII, VIII and Ian’s big quiz.

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Every time a normal mentions Red Dwarf I try to act casual like it’s not a disproportionately huge part of my life.

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Insane levels of detail. Very well done!

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Where did you get them? I want names, I want places, I want dates.

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Listened again today and seriously well done. The Saturday Night Fry influence is very welcome.

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Lovely stuff. I don’t know anything about Doctor Who but I laughed four times.

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Been watching the lawyer’s cut on Netflix and dug out my series 2 and 3 dvds. So much I’d forgotten and so many little treats.

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Cheers – I’ll take a look :)

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Much appreciated! Yes I love the design on that cover – it was my first Red Dwarf purchase!

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I’ll look forward to watching this later but I wonder if another 8 minutes could be lost to make a super tight half hour?

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When I was a kid I wanted to be Rik. Bottom still gets quoted daily round my way.

Might as well get it out now.

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Red Dwarf related in that Bottom occupied the traditional RD slot of 9pm Thursday BBC2. Also there is a very good Young Ones/Red Dwarf 2 trailer in the G&T download section.

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Thank you Si!

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Can someone rip the Red Dwarf parts for you tube please? Thankyou sorry bye.

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Look at Chris Barrie’s face on that Radio Times cover. Sensational.

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The excellent random button led me to the news article about the Back To Earth trailer. It was all very exciting.

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It’s worth remembering at this point that the most excited I’ve ever been in my life was when series one was released on video in 1993.

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Retcon genius!

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Ooh, that is an intriguing image Alex. I wonder whose face is reflected on the left.

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I’m very curious about the movie promotional image of Red Dwarf being blown up as mentioned in the The Beginning introcast. Can anyone remember this or find this?

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We know Herring isn’t a fan but he got great Dwarf chat from Norm on last year’s RHEFP so this’ll be fun.

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Thanks.

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Where is Seb’s Saved By The Bell article?

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Do what ya gotta do. Get on the I player and have a who fest.

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This episode certainly grabbed my attention when I first saw it. I held the series in very high regard until Mr Brittas was reconstructed without a belly button at the start of series 6. For it’s middle series it was a genuinely brilliant dangerous sitcom but with a good natured feel to it.

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Bollocking damn and jumbo buggers :(

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I’m sure I can ship to the US, might need a little more postage and packaging but I’m sure that’s easily sorted.

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Finally for now here are the first two smegazines and Red Dwarf companion.

Spot the deliberate misspellings in the companion.

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=190894902862

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I will keep you informed!

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Here’s a link to the BTLs…

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=190894914421

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Meant to say Red Dwarf merch.

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