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From: rswiftrw@cc.curtin.edu.au (Rod Swift)
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf in Oz..
Organization: -=[ Curtin University ]=-  Perth, Australia.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:38:42 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.074119.3768@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>, daniel@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Daniel Bowen) writes:
> Some people will be aware that the episode on 28/7/92, "Timeslides", is
> actually the fifth in this series, not the second. Apparently the ABC
> have arbitrarily decided on this order, simply because they've been told
> that the episodes don't have to be in a particular order.
> 
> I think a quote from Monty Python is appropriate at this point:
> 
> "I would have liked to have been in programme planning, but
> unfortunately I have a degree."

I think I said before that they are going into series 4 and are showing
episode 1 and 5 of series 3 for "background info".

Rod
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From: glreno@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Gerald Reno)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: PBS TV
Date: 26 Jul 92 12:12:17 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Jul24.092829.17230@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
>In article <sbradley.02qj@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca> sbradley@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Bradley) writes:
>>and the date of the pledge drive. Their last drive was about 5 weeks ago
>
>What actually are these `pledge drives' US PBS stations seem to keep
>having. Send us money and we'll show the program you want ??
>
>Neil

Not exactly. It's more like "Send us money and MAYBE we'll show
the program you want".

PBS stations, I think, are minimally federally funded, and are
generally associated with a university of some sort, so they get
something from them (if nothing more than a student staff). But
most of their money comes from private donations.
From: hermit@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Ron O'Dell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: PBS TV
Date: 26 Jul 92 02:53:01 GMT
Reply-To: keeper@deeptht.armory.com
Organization: The Pen
NNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Jul24.092829.17230@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:
>What actually are these `pledge drives' US PBS stations seem to keep
>having. Send us money and we'll show the program you want ??

Basically, yes.  Approximately 75 percent of the operating costs of
public television stations come from viewer donations.  People need
coaxing, so about three times per year, a station will set aside a week
or two where they'll (usually while showing a lot of specials that normally
aren't on the schedule, and marathons of popular programmes like Red Dwarf)
spend 10 minutes between programmes encouraging people to donate.

(Remember that operating a television is free (apart from electricity, of
 course) in the U.S., so it's not like we're paying something in addition to
 a TV licence, as it would be if this sort of thing went on in the UK.)

Further incentives include giving people some sort of gift relating to the
programme near/during which they call in to make a pledge; which gift
depending on how much the donation is.

They set a goal that they'd like to reach.  My local station, when they
meet the goal for the night, immediately ends the current break and cancels
any others that had been planned.

There are several volunteers who answer the telephones, operate the cameras,
do other technical jiggery-pokery, etc.

When `members' (people who have donated) write in and request to see a
programme, good public television stations take note -- but of course not
all the shows people want to see are available to the station.  My local
station even has a date once per year where they air trailers of programmes
which are available to them, and ask viewers to phone in voting on whether
or not they'd like to see each programme.

All PBS stations get a package of programmes from the Public Broadcasting
Service.  But shows like Red Dwarf are not a part of that package, so must
be purchased independently.  This is why not all PBS stations show it, and
why those that do are at different points in the Red Dwarf chronology.


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From: che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Norman Lovett Standup
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:27:39 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

In article <536.1103.uupcb@satalink.com>, joe.siegler@satalink.com (Joe Siegler) writes:
> Reply-To: joe.siegler@satalink.com
> Organization: Jupiter Mining Corporation
> 
> I'm attempting to find the name of a TV show that aired some time
> ago, but I can't recall.   Maybe someone can figure it out.
> 
> There was a stand up comedy show over here in the States some
> time ago, and I really don't remember the name of it.    One
> episode had Rowan Atkinson doing the "News of the World", (with
> MANY sight gags).   Looking back on it, it kind of reminds me of
> Mr. Bean.    Anyway, also on this was a guy who a really neat
> standup with 3 alligators on sticks, and had 'em sing "Don't Be
> Cruel".    The same guy did a really neat Popeye routine.
> 
> Anyway, I know this is a pretty vague description, but the whole
> reason for me asking is that during the closing credits they
> would show others that had been on the show, and for about 2
> seconds, they had Norman Lovett.   I only ever had 1 episode of
> this on tape, and I no longer have it.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
>                                                                                                                   

Could it have been Not The Nine O'Clock News?
From: 9122069g@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Tri Darkstar)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Red Dwarf Scripts FTP Site?
Summary: Is there a site were I can FTP Red Dwarf Scripts?
Keywords: FTP, Red Dwarf, Scripts
Date: 22 Jul 92 06:26:00 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I was just wondering if there was a site were I could FTP Red-Dwarf
scripts from, instead of asking everyone in the world to post them to
me?

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From: salford@orion.lrmsc.loral.com (Stephanie Alford 5850)
Subject: Re: RD books in the US!
Organization: Loral Rolm Mil-Spec Computers
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:14:11 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.032317.28412@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> gousha@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Charles Gousha) writes:
>When I checked my local bookstore the other day for possible copies of the
>RD books, the guy said no (and knew what they were - what a great bookstore),
>BUT! said that a US distributor was picking them up for the States next
>month!  He didn't recall any other details beyond that.
>
>can anyone verify this?
>

My source at A Wrinkle In Time in Cupertino says they'll be available
in the US in the September time frame.

SEA

Stephanie Alford			.sig line on vacation,
salford@monolith.lrmsc.loral.com  	maybe if you ask nicely
or				 	it'll send you a postcard
lunisea@netcom.com
From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Questions (No Vindaloo, please; I'm driving)
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:32:12 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory

Ok, I won't ask where it's showing in Gorst, I won't ask what a
vindaloo is, and I won't ask why that guy with the sharp teeth is
around if Dave is the last human being alive.

BUT

How about these?

(Oh, SPOILER ALERT!)


1)	In "Thanks for the Memory", Rimmer mentions that he was an
	orphan, even though his parents were alive. One might infer
	that Rimmer's parents lived long enough to see him "ship out"
	on the Red Dwarf. In "Better than life" Rimmer's mother writes
	to him to say that Rimmer's father died peacefully in his
	Jeep.

	However, in season 1 (balance of power?) where Holly gives
	Rimmer the "really short haircut" (not!) Rimmer says something
	to the effect of "My father always used to say, 'with shiny
	boots and a spankin' short haircut, you can cope with
	anything'... until that suicide business"

	I had interpreted this as Rimmer's father committed suicide,
	and I don't think that the joke is as funny if it's
	interpreted differently. 

	Is this just one of the continuity errors that I have just
	begun to see, and everyone else knows all about this, and is
	bored with it? Or am I misinterpreting it?

2)	What is a "bog roll"?

3)	Oh, another continuity question, I guess: Rimmer exits the Red
	Dwarf in Season 3. In "Thanks for the Memory" he was able to
	do this by means of a hologram projection cage. Is there any
	explanation to how he manages it in, oh, say "Backwards"?

4)	What is this (Imagine me holding up a yellow fruit that you
	unzip and eat the white bits out.) :)

5)	How cool was Talky Toaster? Easily one of my favorite
	characters.


I think that there's one question that I'm missing, but that'll do for
now. I'll end with a bit of my favorite dialog.

From "Confidence and Paranoia"

Cat:	I'm going to bed.
Rimmer:	Oh, you're awake!
C:	But soon I'll be asleep.
R:	How are you feeling?
C:	Fine. Just STOP ASKING ME QUESTIONS!
R:	*SHUT UP!*
C:	Well, if you want to be THAT way about it, I'm taking my
	gifts back.
R:	How do you feel?
C:	Hurt!

(I know I screwed up bits of that...)

				-Dave
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From: che238n@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Exclamation
Date: 24 Jul 92 12:13:04 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

SMEG!

Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: pjm6z@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Dave Lister)
Subject: Looking for a RD Episode 
Organization: University of Virginia
Distribution: sworld
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:39:50 GMT


If anyone would be willing to make me a copy of Parallel Universe, the last 
episode in season 2 I would greatly appreciate it.  I have all the episodes
except this one and I am dying to see it.  Please e-mail me in response.

pjm6z@kelvin.seas.virginia.edu

--
Dave Lister (lister@virginia.edu)

"They're all dead Dave"

Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow)
Subject: Re: Questions (No Vindaloo, please; I'm driving)
Organization: School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds
Distribution: sworld
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:19:43 GMT
X-Posted-From: csgi63.leeds.ac.uk
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <Bs40sr.AJ5@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>, rlbell@babbage.waterloo.edu (Richard Bell) writes:
> In article <1992Jul28.141441.13285@ctr.columbia.edu> daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:
> >In article <1992Jul28.133212.9116@news.media.mit.edu>, tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
> >> 2)	What is a "bog roll"?
> >>
> >
> >Now here *is* a question I can answer. A "bog roll" is an Indian
> >speciality often served with a Vindaloo. It is a sort of spicey
> >meat filled pastry roll, rather similar to a Samosa. Next time you
> >are in the UK, drop into your local curry house and ask for a
> >Vindaloo and Bog Roll.
> > 
> 
> In one episode (I forget which) Lister says "If we go through a whole
> bog roll in a day, you say it is aliens".  In Better Than Life says
> something about '... head in the bog shouting football scores.'.
> 
> I think a bog roll is a roll of toilet paper.
> 

What a strange group to find such a massive sense of humour failure...
yes, well done that man, a bog roll is indeed a roll of toilet paper.

-- 
Dan Crow
daniel@scs.leeds.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf,aus.tv,rec.arts.tv.uk
From: daniel@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Daniel Bowen)
Subject: Red Dwarf in Oz..
Summary: The silly order
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:41:19 GMT

Some people will be aware that the episode on 28/7/92, "Timeslides", is
actually the fifth in this series, not the second. Apparently the ABC
have arbitrarily decided on this order, simply because they've been told
that the episodes don't have to be in a particular order.

I think a quote from Monty Python is appropriate at this point:

"I would have liked to have been in programme planning, but
unfortunately I have a degree."



Daniel Bowen
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Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
Subject: Re: PBS TV
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	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 15:19:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.092829.17230@cs.hw.ac.uk> neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil P
stlethwaite) writes:
>In article <sbradley.02qj@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca> sbradley@wiz.outb.wimse
.bc.ca (Steve Bradley) writes:
>>Hey dude....The shirts I got from KCTS 9, our local PBS channel are
>>black with Red Dwarf, in red letters and a silver planet, rather like S
turn
>>and the date of the pledge drive. Their last drive was about 5 weeks ag

>>so the next one's due in January. If you do get any response as to wher
 RD
>>memoriabilia can be found in Vancouver, can you let me know, either her

>>or at Wizard BBS, (604)322-3972...
>
>What actually are these `pledge drives' US PBS stations seem to keep
>having. Send us money and we'll show the program you want ??
>
>Neil


 
Yeah, that's basically it.  Public TV stations don't show commercials,
and are only supported by the public.  And it costs money to get these
shows, and they need money, so...

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From: Jeff Lee <jlee@smylex.UUCP>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Questions (No Vindaloo, please; I'm driving)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 19:47:47 EDT
Organization: Shipbrook Software  (Tampa, FL)

In article <1992Jul28.141441.13285@ctr.columbia.edu>, daniel@csunb0.dcs.leeds.ac.uk (D N Crow) writes:
> In article <1992Jul28.133212.9116@news.media.mit.edu>, tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte) writes:
> >
>> 2)    What is a "bog roll"?
>>
> 
> Now here *is* a question I can answer. A "bog roll" is an Indian
> speciality often served with a Vindaloo. It is a sort of spicey
> meat filled pastry roll, rather similar to a Samosa. Next time you
> are in the UK, drop into your local curry house and ask for a
> Vindaloo and Bog Roll.

Here now, one doesn't have to be in the UK for vindaloo and bog rolls 
(or even papadams -- after all, Lister asks for one the size of Lake
Michigan)...  They *do* have them in the States, it's just that nobody
(okay, ALMOST nobody) *knows* about them!


> Holograms (a la RD, at least) are projected from a little projector
> which hovers in the centre of the image.

A "light bee," if I'm not mistaken.


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Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: sasse@netcom.com (Ellen J. Sasse)
Subject: Re: curses! ALSO Craig Charles/Robert Llywellyn Interview.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 08:35:24 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <neilg.712279174@sfu.ca> neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy) writes:
>neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite) writes:

>>Basically all the new info that I gleaned was that it only takes 6 weeks to
>>shoot a series (I demand more Red Dwarf/year then !!). (...)

> It may take six weeks to shoot an episode, but did they say how long
>it takes to put together all the cheesy special effects? (...)

Yeah, and what about the writing? I've been known to have complained about
some of the episodes/seasons, but it is hard to write something as good as
Red Dwarf. It takes time, too (and a lot of baths and large dinners ;-)

-Ellen

"Fun? Ah yes,the employment of time in a useless and non-profitable way"
  -Rimmer imitating Kryten
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: tsmaster@media.mit.edu (David LeCompte)
Subject: Re: T-shirts
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:38:35 GMT

In article <Jul20.021457.48732@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> ludwigj@CS.ColoState.EDU (Vilkata (Joe Ludwig)) writes:
>jeffv@physics.ubc.ca (Jeff Vavasour) writes:
>>Could some kind soul describe the Red Dwarf T-shirts to me?  Who Enterprises
>>sells five T-shirt styles by mail order, but all they have is a one-line
>>description:
>>4. Smeg Off
>If this is the one I have, the front is a guy in a spacesuit painting 'Red
>Dwarf'  in front of an eclipsed star.  The back says 'Smegg off'
                                                       ^^^^^
Would this be a Sausage McMuffin With Egg, then? :)

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From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Subject: NBC Pilot news?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 01:33:28 GMT

If NBC is going to air the "Red Dwarf" pilot they filmed several
months ago, it will probably have to be sometime in August...

Is there any new information about what their plans are?

I at least want to see what they already filmed!
From: "dale clayton" <dale.clayton@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: rd/ytv
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:38:17 EST
Reply-To: "dale clayton" <dale.clayton@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

Robert Knobel asked Dale Clayton:
---------------------------------

-> Is the YTV you refer to the Youth Television pay-tv channel in
-> Canada?  If so when is Red Dwarf on?

 Yes, it's the same cable channel. RD is on Saturday afternoons here in
Toronto at 4:00 EST (right after Blake's 7). Check your local guide, as
there maybe a difference in broadcast time (Actually, I think it's the
same time. But, the broadcasts are delayed three hours in the wonderful
west).
 BTW, you said "pay-TV channel". You did mean _cable_ channel, didn't
you? I'm presuming you said "pay" in reference to cable, not something
like First Choice/Super Channel.

Regards,
Dale Clayton
------------------------
dale.clayton@canrem.com

PS: You'll see what I mean by YTV's RD editing. Shameful.
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From: michael@marcel.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf on YTV in Canada(and re: curses!)
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:39:41 GMT
Organization: Boston University
In-reply-to: sbradley@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca's message of 24 Jul 92 00:14:06 GMT

In article <sbradley.02sz@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca> sbradley@wiz.outb.wimsey.bc.ca (Steve Bradley) writes:

=  I think the episode they refused to show, at least I've never 
=  seen it shown on YTV, is where Kryten comes alive and takes
=  Photos of his..em p--is, after looking though a washing machine
                     ^^^^^
=  manual.....

"Flippin' through an appliance manual shouldn't be 
givin' someone a double-polaroid!"

Oh! How the hours pass!
Thanks to all for their responses (re:curses!),
and my apologies to Australia...

=  Regards...Steve
=  --- Via UCI v1.02 (C-Net Amiga)

ciao,
chaplin.
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From: lkayne@hardy.u.washington.edu (Linus Kayne)
Subject: Red Dwarf Novels, a 3rd one?
Reply-To: lkayne@hardy.u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:25:25 GMT


I was wondering about the possible existence of a 3rd Red Dwarf
novel.  Being a fan here in the United States, the show is easy to get
hold of (a local British TV fan club & later on PBS), but the novels
are unavailable here.

I am traveling to Canada tomorrow (Thursday) and want to know if
there is even a third novel to look for?


--Linus Kayne
From: nrp@btcase.bt.co.uk (Reece Peacock)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: sci fi tv trivia
Date: 28 Jul 92 10:17:16 GMT
Organization: British Telecom, Lion House, London.

SMC@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:


>In article <1992Jul17.195619.24796@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>,
>greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter) says:
>>
>>
>>Obviosly, major topics like Dr. Who, HHGTTG, Blake's 7 and Red Dwarf will
>>be addressed, but I'm also looking for info on others -- such as Tripods
>>and The Tomorrow People.
>>                                - greg

>The *Tomorrow* people..... now I vaguely remember that.  But all I remember
>is a bloke with BIG hair.  What else happened?  I think I was really only
>interested in play school, crackerjack and shitty blue peter on BBC1,
>I must have been under 10 years old!  The Tomorrow People was a kiddies
>programme on ITV, wasn't it?  Was it on after magpie or something?

I heard that they are filming a new series of the Tomorrow People with some
guy who used to be in Neighbours in it.

Reece
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