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Re-Dwarf: The End
February 1988. Star Trek: The Next Generation had recently launched, but was still a couple of years away from UK screens, where TV science fiction consisted of Kirk-era repeats and Doctor Who. Yes,...
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Re-Dwarf: Future Echoes
As the first episode after the pilot, Future Echoes had the task of setting the pace for the rest of the series. In fact it was filmed later and slotted in as episode two because it did just that, and...
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Monday Review: Utopia (DVD)
As a TV series, Utopia had everything that a good Christian viewer should avoid: loads of violence, constant bad language, casual (if non-graphic) sex, and a completely gratuitous Welsh accent. It was...
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Re-Dwarf: Balance of Power
Balance of Power is a change of pace from the gag-laden sci-fi of the first two episodes to more of a traditional sitcom set-up. The story opens with Lister getting bored of counting irradiated...
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Re-Dwarf: Waiting for God
Episode four, Waiting For God, is where things get really philosophical for the crew of Red Dwarf. Lister is busy learning to read cat books – specifically the Holy Book which tells of Cloister the...
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Twelve
It’s hard to believe, but I actually haven’t done a Doctor Who post here yet. I may have mentioned the good Doctor in passing, but he certainly hasn’t had a post all to himself. Even after that season...
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Re-Dwarf: Confidence and Paranoia
Confidence and Paranoia is not a high point in the history of the Dwarf. It does have some interesting ideas; the effect of 3 million years of evolution on the pneumonia virus, the constant struggle...
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Re-Dwarf: Me²
Watching this again I come to realise that Red Dwarf season one sort of tailed off at the end. Me² is, in many ways, just too similar to the episode before; rather than Lister having to deal with all...
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Monday Review – Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
I’m sure I can’t be the only one who, faced with months of waiting for a new Doctor Who episode, and having seen those tantalising glimpses of other Doctors in The Name Of The Doctor, went off in...
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Who’s Who For The 50th?
I get the feeling there’s going to be quite a bit of Doctor Who news over the next few months, as we get closer to the show’s golden jubilee. This weeks (possibly apocryphal) Who news is that a...
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Monday Review – Doctor Who: The Cave of Skulls
The Cave of Skulls, for the uninitiated, is the title of the second episode of Doctor Who, waaaaay back in November 1963. It follows on directly from An Unearthly Child, which I took a look at a...
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Tuesday Tunes: Twelfth Doctor Edition
You will, of course, have noticed that this blog did not carry the obligatory Twelfth Doctor post on Sunday evening, or indeed yesterday; that was because of reasons. Now, however, we are here to put...
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Re-Dwarf: Bodysnatcher
Bodysnatcher is the ‘lost episode’ from Red Dwarf series 1, the script for which was finished and recorded as an audio story board performed by Chris Barrie to become the headline act when Red Dwarf...
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Re-Dwarf: Kryten
Series II Presumably somebody in the upper echelons of the Beeb thought Red Dwarf was pretty good, because within 6 months of series 1 closing, series 2 was on the air. And from this first episode,...
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Re-Dwarf: Better Than Life
The story so far: three million years from Earth, radiation levels on board the Red Dwarf have reduced to a survivable background level, the one surviving crew member has been revived from stasis and...
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Re-Dwarf: Thanks for the Memory
Thanks for the Memory continues the writers’ attempts, started in Better Than Life, to make Rimmer a slightly more agreeable character. Having already given a little insight into his horrible...
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Re-Dwarf: Stasis Leak
Stasis Leak, with its full-on science fiction themes and high laugh quota, is one of the better episodes of series 2. Holly detects a stasis leak somewhere in the murky lower levels of Red Dwarf,...
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Re-Dwarf: Queeg
Queeg is the name of Red Dwarf’s backup computer, which comes on line automatically when some mysterious subroutine decides that Holly has endangered the crew through a series of errors which form the...
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Monday Review – Doctor Who: The Daleks
Of course, everybody knows the Daleks are as integral to Who folklore as the police call box. Everybody knows that the Doctor has come up against them in every one of his regenerations. Everybody...
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Re-Dwarf: Parallel Universe
With the exception of The End, this is the first episode not to open with a prologue by Holly, instead opening with Cat performing ‘Tongue Tied’ in a dream sequence. This doesn’t really have any...
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