BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)

Subject: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Dec 25 - 10:23 AM

All of Red Dwarf is currently available on BBC iPlayer so I am rewatching it. Lots of things I had forgotten and very funny. I reckon it stands up as a Sci-Fi as well as a comedy.

Any other fans?

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Raggytash
Date: 09 Dec 25 - 01:02 PM

I heard a whisper recently that a new series may be being filmed

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Dec 25 - 01:49 PM

Years ago I watched quite a few of the episodes, but don't remember much about it. It is the kind of program that was picked up on the public broadcasting channels. (The channel in Dallas was the first one to pick up and run Monty Python.)

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Raggytash
Date: 09 Dec 25 - 04:34 PM

I Think there are episodes on You Tube, a brilliant piece of English humour

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Donuel
Date: 10 Dec 25 - 02:45 PM

Famous last words, "Gazpacho Soup".

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Helen
Date: 10 Dec 25 - 08:45 PM

Gazpacho Soup - Red Dwarf clip

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Dec 25 - 06:34 PM

There is a clear message from the Gazpacho soup scene

"We had gazpacho soup for starters... I didn't know that gazpacho soup was meant to be served cold. I called over the chef and told him to take it away and bring it back hot! So he did... the looks on their faces still haunt me today! I thought they were laughing at the chef, when all the time they were laughing at me as I ate my piping hot gazpacho soup! I never ate at the Captain's table again. That was the end of my career. "

Some folk never realise that their posts are like sending the soup back...

Getting back to Red Dwarf itself I have just watched S7E6, the title of which is "Beyond a Joke" What a coincidence :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Helen
Date: 12 Dec 25 - 01:09 AM

Yes, DtG, you have just proved that you are dimmer than Rimmer. Funny!

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Dec 25 - 03:05 AM

See what I mean ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Dec 25 - 03:10 AM

Up to series 8 now and the concepts keep coming. Last one I watched involved an intelligent and deadly virus that the crew were conversing with.

One of my other favourites was Firefly and last night we decided that Joss Whedon must have been a fan of Red Dwarf too :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Dec 25 - 11:50 AM

I have a backlog (list) of series I'd like to watch. And the Dr. Who episodes that came later in the production schedules that somehow I missed and want to watch in order.

A series that played here was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that started as a radio show. In college I listened to it on the CBC (Canadian radio since I lived a few miles south of the border) before it played in the US on public radio.

I mention those because in the Public Television universe here in the US they often times played in sequence on Saturday or Sunday evenings, so I tend to lump the memories of one with the others.

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Helen
Date: 13 Dec 25 - 04:32 PM

SRS, there are lots of excellent Sci-Fi or related UK TV shows. Some of my faves are Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dr Who (watched it when it first aired in Oz back in the '60's from the first series with William Hartnell, and it was the reason my student share-house friends and I decided to rent a TV in the '70's), any of the Terry Pratchett shows (series or one-offs), Red Dwarf (of course), Life on Mars (looks ordinary/everyday but with a twist), Black Mirror, Catweazle (v. funny! I still make jokes about electrickery and the telebone) etc etc.

We have the DVD's of all of those, except Life on Mars I think - although Hubby might have bought it.

And lots more sci-fi, fantasy and other quirky shows from UK, Oz, US etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Dec 25 - 07:29 PM

I liked A Prairie Home Companion but that was not sci-fi.

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Helen
Date: 13 Dec 25 - 08:07 PM

Oops! I misremembered: it's "telling bone" and not "telebone". I forgot the telling" part of the name.

Catweazle - Wiki

Catweazle

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Dec 25 - 07:21 AM

I'm trying to think of other SciFi comedies on the TV - IE comedies in a SciFi setting rather than SciFi with some comedic interludes. Other than Red Dwarf and Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, none spring to mind. There are some films (Dave and World's End are good) but no other TV series. Anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 14 Dec 25 - 08:03 AM

"Mork and Mindy" featured an alien on Earth. Does that count?

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 14 Dec 25 - 09:03 AM

Third Rock from the Sun.

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: DaveRo
Date: 14 Dec 25 - 09:31 AM

The Clangers.

Subject: RE: BS: Red Dwarf (UK TV)
From: Raggytash
Date: 14 Dec 25 - 09:40 AM

Back in the1980's Theatre Clwyd put on a stage version of Hitchhikers which was absolutely stunning.

The curtains opened to reveal a large dolls house with a bottle of milk and a newspaper outside, the door of the house opened a hand reached out and gathered the newspaper and milk and the theatre was filled with the thunderous roar of a bulldozer .................. as across the stage trundled a remote control Tonka Toy of a bulldozer it was simply brilliant.