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So it should have been called “Meta Than Life”, or “Out of the Red”, or “Seeing The Red Dwarf Boys Out of Their Element in a Contemporary Department Store is Fun, Right?”.

It’s called Back to Earth because it’s a surprise sequel to Back to Reality, surely?

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In addition to all the other stuff mentioned, the two things that really stick out production-wise are the way the sets all look so clean and unblemished, like they’ve just been put up in studio and painted that morning, and the comedy sound effects whenever someone gets clonked on the head (or whatever). It seems unthinkable that you’d have done that in, say, Marooned or something. When I think about VIII, it feels like a cartoon I watched.

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There’s clearly a person in a white shirt standing on the left-hand side of the screen in this shot in Polymorph.

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Recently watched the second episode of Silent Witness on iPlayer, at the link below. See if you recognise that music at 19m51s…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p032kjns/silent-witness-series-1-2-buried-lies-part-2?seriesId=p02zhtzh#t=19m51s

It’s this

Exactly! :)

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Recently watched the second episode of Silent Witness on iPlayer, at the link below. See if you recognise that music at 19m51s…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p032kjns/silent-witness-series-1-2-buried-lies-part-2?seriesId=p02zhtzh#t=19m51s

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Can Rimmer swim? Did he learn or was he just overly-proud of his limited ability?

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Terrorform and Skipper (by clem)
No one’s got this yet.

Gongs?

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In Rimmerworld, when the crew use the teleporter and get dropped back in time, they end up ‘a week last Thursday’, then start to tell their past selves about the ‘Simulant ship they’re about to encounter’. The episode opens in the present day with Lister saying they’ve found the wreckage of the ‘Simulant ship we totalled a couple of weeks back’ (in Gunmen).

In order to make this approach approximately ‘ a couple of weeks’, this might suggest that Gunmen takes place on a Friday, and Rimmerworld takes place on a Wednesday 12 days later.

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Maybe they were about to die on Starbug for whatever reason in the Inquisitor timeline and that was averted by the butterfly effect of the revised timeline.

Him being a Grim Reaper doesn’t work anyway, because he wouldn’t replace someone if they were just about to die, would he.

I imagined he replaces them retrospectively with someone who did live a more worthwhile life. I don’t know if he then re-assesses that person though.

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They were all about to die in the next episode (sunk in Starbug on the Terrorforming planet) until killing the Inquisitor unravelled this timeline. Kryten realised the importance Rimmer had to the crew when he is killed by The Inquisitor and was subsequently able to see that building his confidence in Terrorform would allow them to escape in Starbug. Or something.

EDIT: Great minds…

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If Lister is his own father, the sequence in The Inquisitor where he’s replaced with the Jake Abrahams sperm-in-law has bizarre implications for his heritage. For everyone else, a different sperm from your father fertilises an egg and you’re different. For Lister, a different Craig Charles-sperm fertilises an egg, and produces Jake Abrahams-Lister, who presumably has a completely different set of sperm again, which then fertilises an egg. This can’t produce Jake Abrahams-Lister as he was a product of Craig Charles-Lister’s swimmers, so it makes a different person again – a third Lister – who then has another complete set of different sperm, which fertilises an egg, and the whole cycle repeats…. = recursive Listers!

Sorry for saying sperm so much.

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And a very, very, very rough S8 layout!

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Cheers, Dave! Here’s a very, very rough S7.

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The main reason both the Starbug and Science Room appear above is that there was much more space at Shepperton! Season 6 did similar:

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The Science Room is in the same position in S3, but it’s not erected every week (no standing sets in Manchester). It’s rather complex:

Marooned: Starbug positioned as above.

Timeslides: Science Room positioned left of bunkroom. Starbug not used.

Backwards: Only the Starbug cockpit is used. The Science Room isn’t. Something else would be left of the bunkroom, but not sure what: maybe cockpit, the cafe set or the dressing room? Pub was probably pre-record.

Bodyswap: Everything was done without an audience and both the full Starbug and Science Room appear. Suspect one was in that position for the pre-record and the other for the record.

Polymorph: Science Room next to the bunkroom. Starbug doesn’t appear. 

The Last Day: The Officer’s bar is next to the bunkroom. Starbug and the Science Room don’t appear.

Here’s a rough S5.

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I know: and they share a corridor! Same thing happens for Series 4 and too: back corridor runs along the rear of the set and opens into both ships.

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Marooned

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Cheers Paul! Have you a link to your stuff?

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/JlvEeR
here you go! 

Great stuff – love those textures, Paul!

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Cheers Paul! Have you a link to your stuff?

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‘Yes Mum, I’m just packing my satchel,’ is a particularly weird thing to say for someone who went to a boarding school.

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John is a friend and valued colleague!

The discrepacy in The End is not a result of re-shoots: neither version of the remainder of the corridor scene uses the same sign as the opening shot. I think they just swapped signs during the original recording. Dona diStefano keeping her eyes open, I reckon.

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If you’re interested, I’ve also been doing some p̵o̵i̵n̵t̵l̵e̵s̵s̵ vital work on Red Dwarf I’s corridor signage:

https://x.com/andreworton/status/1844773812082024478

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Blender and obsessive tedium :)

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Thank you! I think I did actually build the toilet but it’s hidden :) 

As to the Blu-rays, I was instrumental in getting disc reissues for the mis-transferred episodes, but sadly I didn’t think to pursue the contrast issues…

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Cheers, everyone!

@warbodog: Some of the walls were moveable and it’s possible the vending machine was a little more out. It’s difficult to be entirely accurate…

@International Debris: I couldn’t find a good guitar model and I couldn’t be bothered to make one! Obviously the whole thing is rendered worthless. :)

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They were pre-records which would likely have taken the space occupied the following day by the audience seating.

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Thank you both! I don’t post regularly, but thought this might be of interest! It’s the culmination of some years’ work…

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Cheers, Kris! I’ll keep an eye out.

Andrew

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Kris,

That’s fantastic! I’d love to see any further set plans you have – they’re great for producing 3D replicas (like below, for instance).

Cheers
Andrew

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