Doctor Dwarf: Who’s Who?

Features

Posted by on 23rd November 2024, 09:00

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The world's longest running science-fiction series (if you ignore the sixteen years where only one actual episode was made) turns 61 today. Doctor Who is without doubt the second best British sci-fi show ever, and unsurprisingly there are multiple connections between it and Red Dwarf. In this article, we list the whopping fifty-five actors who have appeared in both shows, or in the case of Doctor Who, one of its official televised spin-offs. Not all of these people were credited on both shows, and some of them took some significant tracking down, but thanks to resources such as TARDIS Wiki, TOS's Complete Guide, IMDb's collaborations search, Movie Dude's Pictorial Filmography and our very own Smega-Drive, we think we've caught them all.

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Because the ident computer says they do

Quickies

Posted by on 12th March 2014, 17:06

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I recently discovered a very interesting blog called VHiStory. This chap, Jim Lynn, has got an archive of around 3000 video tapes in his garage, and he's currently in the process of digitising and cataloguing each one, blogging his discoveries in precise detail as he goes. I quickly lost the best part of two days reading every single post, but that's not important right now. In amongst the archives, I spotted that Jim had taped the original broadcasts of Red Dwarf series one, around 26 years ago. I immediately got in touch to point out that if he happened to have captured the original idents and continuity announcements, he may have inadvertently struck nerd gold.

Skip ahead a day or so, and Jim has only gone and put the buggers on Youtube.

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Doctor Dwarf : The End of Time

News

Posted by on 9th January 2010, 14:08

Doctor Who and Red Dwarf mashups are nothing new, nor are they that surprising - there's a lot of crossover between the fandoms (as evidenced by our forum) and ever since the revived series began we've been pointing out "amusing" connections, be they casting coincidences, dialogue similarities or simply just us taking the piss. And there are a slew of videos on Youtube that consist of people setting Who clips to the Dwarf opening theme. Most of them aren't very good.

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Doctor Dwarf and the Incredible Comeback

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Posted by on 13th September 2006, 19:28

I can't believe we ever missed this one back on Observation Dome, but - better late than never :

THE DOCTOR : I don't know about Hitler, but you sure scare the hell out of me!

RIMMER : Well, I don't know about the enemy, but you certainly scare the hell out of me!

I promise that at some point I really will post some content on G&T that doesn't consist of pretending that Everything In The History Of Culture has ripped off Red Dwarf at some point or another...

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