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Doug has updated his Bluesky to reflect that he has a new interview to listen to here: https://drrachelknightley.podbean.com/e/doug-naylor-sin-bin-island-red-dwarf-and-remembering-rob-grant/

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/lost-doctor-who-episodes-iplayer-good-friday

The two DMP episodes will be on BBC iPlayer from 6am tomorrow.

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Of these 79 that Ian found, how many have *never* had a dupe found?The Daleks 1 2 3 4 6 7, The Edge of Destruction 1 2, The Keys of Marinus 1 2 3 4 6 (a dupe was found of this Ep 6 – but it was by Ian. And it mightn’t be real), The Aztecs 1 2 3 4, The Sensorites 1 2 3 4 5 6, Planet of Giants 1 2 3, The Dalek Invasion of Earth 1 2 3 4 6, The Rescue 1 2, The Romans 2 4, The Space Museum 3 4, The Chase 1 2 3 4 5 6, The Ark 1 2 4, The Gunfighters 1 2 3, The Mind Robber 1 2 3 4 5 & The Seeds of Death 3. 

Not that it makes too much difference to anything but as confirmed by FiF here https://filmisfabulous.org.uk/statement-on-doctor-who/ they also found The Daleks Episode 2, The Daleks Episode 3, The Web Planet Episode 1, and The Chase Episode 1 alongside the 2 DMP episodes. I’m sure Levine will be delighted if they are better quality versions.

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A Levine ‘get in there and make it about you’ post is the cherry on top of today’s news.

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An interesting note here (24:30) that they actually found 6 episodes in this collection but 4 already exist which they’re going to return to the BBC in case they’re better quality than what is held already.

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2 episodes of The Dalek’s Master Plan recovered and on iplayer at Easter

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o

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Saw this appear on YouTube this week and as usual for me, no idea if it’s something rarely seen or not so bunging in this thread in case it’s of interest.

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A link: https://shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episodes/rhlstp-book-club-166-doug-naylor or https://www.rhlstp.co.uk/website.cgi?page=podcasts&id=2741 

And a video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMYgVXw5-w 

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The ‘Buy Our Book’ link at the top right of the page goes to https://www.lulu.com/shop/ganymede-titan/the-garbage-pod/paperback/product-15274396.html?page=1&pageSize=4 for further info

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Enjoyable interview, talked about the future of Dwarf at the end which was stuff we’ve heard before but Doug did add that they’ll approach streaming services in the new year but wanted to give the BBC a year to come to them first. Threw in that it’d make a good Christmas special.

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That’s Doug on now

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Ending the year on a high I guess:

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We have confirmation:

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The Sun has an article up reporting that he “was in fine form at a fan event just months after overcoming a health struggle” followed by about 90% waffle.

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A video from it featuring DJJ proclaiming that he never trusted UKTV.

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In perhaps a tad premature statement given the announced guests so far, The What’s On page says that you can “Get your favorite Red Dwarf merchandise signed by Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Craig Charles (Lister), Danny John-Jules (The Cat), and Robert Llewellyn (Kryten)”

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Only Craig Charles has updated his X

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Another interview here, from this week since he mentioned the Reddit AMA.

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38:20 for the comments on the special “If someone wants to commission it, I know the guys want to do it and I know the audience want it”.
Also adds that the series The Chicken Song was re-recorded for (as mentioned on Twitter recently) is Rivals (the Jilly Cooper one on Disney+).

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YouTube link:

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Now finished but he’s said “I will try and get back tomorrow to finish off any I haven’t answered“.

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We are so back

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As tweeted by the man himself: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedDwarf/comments/1n9xcqi/hi_im_doug_naylor_emmy_awardwinning_writer_and/

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I assume a link will go up beforehand though, certainly I’ll be posting one if I see it.

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Get your questions about series numbering ready

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Oh?

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Good news it would seem:

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Doug has been busy writing

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https://www.ganymede.tv/2025/03/sin-sin-sin-sin-sin-oh-ive-not-sin-that/#comment-109328

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Showmasters getting a lot of backlash as they decided it would be a good idea to show a video of them banging on his hotel room door saying that he’s wasting people’s time (see reply to their tweet) https://twitter.com/Showmasters/status/1941840418963869995

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Yes, because it says “official” so obviously it must be official.

Has anyone just asked Doug?

It would seem so, unless they’re doing an elaborate April, May, June, July & August fool:

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Nothing substantially new on the latest update but he has added a London comic-con date for 6th July which it looks like Craig, Danny & Robert will also be at so we might get the first update in months as to where things stand.

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Auction taking place next month “Also up for sale are an original model miniature of Starbug 1, the craft used by the crew of Red Dwarf in the series of the same name, and a costume worn by the robotic humanoid Kryten.“

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn81g12kzg1o 

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Really? (To either of the above)

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Easy to forget, everything gets rather overshadowed by the famous cloche scene.

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