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Subject: Ordering tapes. 
Distribution: world
Organization: Twod's Software Factory
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 10:58:47 +0000


>
>> I have read that some seasons of RD are available on tape from the BBC.  Can
>> these be purchased in the US?  If so, WHERE, and how much are they?  Please 
>> let me know!!!
>
>  Ditto goes for me.  And if anyone is interested, I have access to a VCR that
>handles all video formats (especially PAL) and can turn any format into NTSC
>(aka that supid American format).
>

Yep in the UK ( VHS PAL ) series II -> V are available on the BBC video label.
They are available from the BBC direct or from such places as Tower Records 
& Sam Goody ( ? ) record shops in the UK so it might be worth going into a 
large TR or SG and asking if you can order them from their UK branches.

If you require the relevant catalogue codes Im sure I can get them for yuz.

"If it's cold outside, it's because there is no atmosphere !!"

IAP
--
Ian Parkin, twod@socrates.demon.co.uk
From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: QUESTION
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 20:47:12 EDT
Organization: Berry Communications

dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

> I noticed that you mentioned PBS without explaining its unique workings...Do
> you want to explain it?

Isn't this getting a bit off-topic for a Red Dwarf newsgroup?

-- 
Pat Berry - Cary, North Carolina, USA   | Dave Barry for President
pat@berry.Cary.NC.US                    |  "He Probably Won't Use
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From: wilson@cs.ucf.edu (tom wilson)
Subject: Re: Pt 1/2: Red Dwarf Frequently Asked Questions List (Version 2.3)
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 05:13:58 GMT

Fritz.Niespodziany@p4.f41.n2403.z2.fidonet.org (Fritz Niespodziany) wrote:
> JD> IS THERE GOING TO BE AN AMERICAN "RED DWARF"?
> JD>     Maybe.  A pilot was produced for NBC, involving Grant Naylor
>I think I have to puke !

Have you decided yet? I'm pretty upset that it didn't make it too, but I
didn't get sick!

For the rest of the people who already know they wouldn't like an American
Red Dwarf (like FN), exercise your free will and don't watch it! Don't
torture the rest of us with your suppositions. If we don't like it after
seeing it, you can say "I told you so."

Tom
From: esrag@warwick.ac.uk (Bill Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: sdrawkcab
Date: 14 Sep 92 08:38:24 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

In article <1992Sep11.081624.5811@spider.co.uk> andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:
>In article <10726446.142.716178477@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> 10726446@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (LAU WAI KUEN) writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>.emit tsrif eht meht dessim i ;meht tsoper esaelp 'sdrawkcab'
>>morf stpircs sdrawkcab eht detsop ohw nosrep eht dluoc
>>
>>
>
>I'm sorry I don't speak Bulgarian.
>
>-- 
>|      Andy Cannon       |"Love is what seperates us from the animals"       |
>| Misplaced Yorkshireman |                                                   |
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>|  andrewc@spider.co.uk  |don't clean our own genitals with our tongue"      |

Thankski veryski muchski, budski!!

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From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: sdrawkcab
Date: 11 Sep 92 08:16:24 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <10726446.142.716178477@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au> 10726446@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (LAU WAI KUEN) writes:
>
>
>
>.emit tsrif eht meht dessim i ;meht tsoper esaelp 'sdrawkcab'
>morf stpircs sdrawkcab eht detsop ohw nosrep eht dluoc
>
>

I'm sorry I don't speak Bulgarian.

-- 
|      Andy Cannon       |"Love is what seperates us from the animals"       |
| Misplaced Yorkshireman |                                                   |
|   Spider Systems Ltd   |"No, what seperates us from the animals is that we |
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From: c9107143@cc.newcastle.edu.au (I AM THE ONE THE ONLY ONE JUST GIVE ME THE PRIZE)
Subject: Re: QUESTION
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:21:29 GMT

>decent.  Kind of like taking the worst of PBS and Commercial broadcasting, and
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

No would you like to explain what PBS is please????
thanks
later
Kurgen
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Red Dwarf on VHS
Date: 06 Sep 92  18:16:00 EST

Hello All!

Could anyone give me an adress in England where I could order
Red Dwarf on VHS ? I heard that the BBC released them
on tape recently.

Bye and thank`s for all the fish...oops wrong film..
Fritz.



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From: quendor@milton.u.washington.edu (Don Sowell)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: sdrawkcab
Date: 15 Sep 92 01:28:02 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon) writes:

>In article <BuFs4M.Fu5@taligent.com> josh@taligent.com (Josh Goldenhar) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep11.081624.5811@spider.co.uk> Andrew Cannon,
>>andrewc@spider.co.uk writes:
>>>>
>>>>.emit tsrif eht meht dessim i ;meht tsoper esaelp 'sdrawkcab'
>>>>morf stpircs sdrawkcab eht detsop ohw nosrep eht dluoc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I'm sorry I don't speak Bulgarian.
>>>
>>
>>Use a little imagination!  It's BACKWARDS!
>>
>>could the person who posted the backwards scripts from
>>'backwards' please repost them; i missed then the first time.
>>
>>Just trying to help the poor huddled masses....
>>Josh

>Some people are just so stupid. Han'nt you seen the episode "Backwards" ?


   Sounds more like simple ignorance than stupidity, but he could have
been a bit more civilized about it in any case.

                           Don Sowell

                             a man sans .sig...
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From: magenta@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Leilah Thiel)
Subject: vindaloo?
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 22:30:57 GMT


  Okay, i have given up.  I have been through bunches of cookbooks, and
simply can not find a recipe for vindaloo anything.  Does anyone know where
i can get a recipe?  I really want to try it.

   thanks~
       leilah

Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
From: byrdie@milton.u.washington.edu (Renee Ann Byrd)
Subject: Re: The cat 
Summary: What happens to The Cat when Lister meets Kochanski again?
Keywords: The Cat, "Future Echos", double double future
Organization: Jupiter Mining Corporation -- Skutter Maintenance
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:27:07 GMT

In article <715776736snx@socrates.demon.co.write>  ukwod@socrates.demon.co.uk writes:
>
>In Stasis Leak all of the "petit rouge one posse" appear more than once,
>from the past, the present ( or is that the future ), and from the
>double double future. However the cat does not appear from the double double 
>future. As the time period between the present ( future ) and double double
>future characters is 5 years and the episode is 3 years old ( ? ) what, if
>anything, happens to the cat in the next 2 years ?
>
>
	Neither the books nor the episodes give direct hints that something
	specific happens to The Cat, but I have been wondering about all the
	set-up they gave for the Cat world that evolved on the ship --
	the background was much richer in the books than on the series 
	(well, so FAR), but I wonder if the eternal search for Fujal will
	bearing on The Cat's future?

						-- Renee
From: phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Viewing time
Date: 15 Sep 92 06:22:37 GMT
Organization: University of Adelaide, South Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.adelaide.edu.au

cwhi2@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Craig Dean          Whitmore       ) writes:

>Here in New Zealand (The only place to be!) Red Dwarf is being played at 11:30
>at nighttime rated as AO (adults only).  I think this is too late for this
>marvolous program to be on. What do you think?  And another thing they are only
>up to series 3 and just showed "POLYMORPH". Boring!!

We aren't a lot better in Australia.

Currently it is shown at 10pm Tuesday nights and we saw "DNA" last week.


regards,
Phil.

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Subject: Re: QUESTION
From: dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:57:24 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Sep8.134854@IASTATE.EDU>, kv07@IASTATE.EDU (Warren Vonroeschlaub) writes:
> In article <1992Sep8.130556.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>> I'm sure everybody appreciates your explaination of syndication but perhaps,
>> you'd better explain the wonderful concept of cable.
>> 
>> -If you don't I will!!!!
> 
>   Heaven forbid!!
> 
>   Okay: Cable grew out of the minds of corporate executives that asked
> themselves "Gee, having a commercial break every 10 minutes just isn't getting
> us enough money" which was instantly responded to by an overzealous
> moneygrubber, whose name is lost in the mists of credit grabbing.
> 
>   The idea was simple.  Not only would they continue presenting an almost
> obscene level of advertising, but on top of that they would charge people to
> watch it.  Since you can't keep people from watching something if it is broacast
> over the air, cable TV was born.
> 
>   As an added bonus, some cable channels were scrambled, so even after paying a
> monthly fee for commercial television, you still had to pay more to see anything
> decent.  Kind of like taking the worst of PBS and Commercial broadcasting, and
> putting it together in to one hideous lump.

I noticed that you mentioned PBS without explaining its unique workings...Do
you want to explain it?

> 
>   And yes, I _do_ get cable.
> 
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From: Fritz.Niespodziany@p4.f41.n2403.z2.fidonet.org (Fritz Niespodziany)
Sender: postmaster@p2.f41.n2403.z2.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: sdrawkcab
Date: 12 Sep 92  12:31:00 EST

Hello Andrew!

11 Sep 92, Andrew Cannon writes to All:

 AC> From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
 AC> Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf

 AC> In article <10726446.142.716178477@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
 AC> 10726446@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (LAU WAI KUEN) writes:

 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> .emit tsrif eht meht dessim i ;meht tsoper esaelp 'sdrawkcab'
 >> morf stpircs sdrawkcab eht detsop ohw nosrep eht dluoc
 >>
 >>

 AC> I'm sorry I don't speak Bulgarian.

.nairagluB si eh kniht I... ? yas eh did tahW

Fritz
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From: nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Holly's IQ
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:10:06 GMT
Organization: X-Tel Services Ltd.

Well, my scutters question was kind of answered, but I still want to
know what happened to Holly's IQ. In the White Hole episode, they try to
get Holly's IQ back up to its original 6000 or so, from the 60 (?) is was
at the start of the episode. Have I missed something? What happened?

Neil.
From: dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: QUESTION
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:29:49 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

In article <1992Sep9.162129.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, c9107143@cc.newcastle.edu.au (I AM THE ONE THE ONLY ONE JUST GIVE ME THE PRIZE) wr
> 
> No would you like to explain what PBS is please????
> thanks
> later
> Kurgen

Fair enough....

PBS:  Put simply it is the big network of channels that nobody watches. 
Because even though we Americans hate commercials, we think that the program
sucks unless they are filled with them(besides people on welfare would
never get their exercise in if they never had to get up and change the
channel).  As I said nobody watches PBS, but they(the PBS executives) think
that everybody does.  What's more, they think you are actually willing to pay
for quality programming without commericals and without violence which brings up
cable again(at least in cable were paying for violence and commercials).  In
order to raise this money they have telethons, which is nothing more than them
begging Americans to send money(As an incentive to pay they cancel their only
good show--RED DWARF--and beg until they reach their goal.  Kinda like cable
and Jerry's Kids combined!!!

I also know the meaning of life if anyone is interested.

your welcome...
Dave.
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf,ont.sf-lovers
From: jamie@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (James Blustein)
Subject: Re: Red Dwarf in Toronto
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Distribution: ca can
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:39:37 GMT
Summary: Has YTV rescheduled RD or did they cancel it
Keywords: Distribution is broken.  Please don't tell me you read this outside of Canada

In article <1992Sep13.000707.6256@geac.com> wcm@geac.com 
(W Christopher Martin) wrote:
>If anyone notices "Red Dwarf" on any Toronto area station, I'd
>appreciate hearing about it.

    I too would like to know if YTV (or any other national carrier) is
still broadcasting RD.  If there is only local service, I'll post a
summary to both groups.

-- 
James Blustein                                `Did you say "knives"?'
<jamie@uwo.ca>                                `*Rotating* knives, yes.'
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From: ppj@unislc.uucp (Peter Jones)
Subject: Re: Scutters (Was:Re: Holly's IQ)
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:00:44 GMT

A scutter did show up in one episode: The Last Day

This is the episode when kryten is supposed to be turned off. They throw a 
party for him, and a scutter delivers the invitation. This is also the episode
when kryten drinks his mechanized vimto.

-"It's the old,old story:

	Droid meets Droid,
	Droid becomes Chameleon,
	Droid loses Chameleon,
	Chameleon turns into Blob,
	Droid gets Blob back again,
	Blob meets Blob,
	Blob goes off with Blob,
	and Droid loses Blob, Chameleon, and Droid.

 How many times have we seen that story! "
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From: naffara@crc.ac.uk (Dr. N.A. Affara)
Subject: Vindaloo?
Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:08:37 GMT

Just what is a vindaloo?

Phil

-- 
Kryten (When Cat says why don't we raise the defensive shields?) "A superlative
suggestion sir,with only two drawbacks: one,we don't have any defensive shields
and two,we don't have any defensive shields.I know that,technically,that's only
one drawback,but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice".
From: operator@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: accents
Date: 9 Sep 92 14:46:11 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <25653@castle.ed.ac.uk>, gu@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Ushaw) writes:
> st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Rosaleen Dhu) writes:
>>Alexei Sayle, star of "Alexei Sayle's Stuff" (the BBC comedy show
>>which replaced "Red Dwarf" as the second show on New Hampshire Public TV's
>>British Comedy Hour, from ten till eleven Sunday nights) has the same accent.
>>Can anyone tell me what it is--it's going to be very useful for a future
>>character if I can get it right.
>>
> 
> Alexei Sayle has a Birmingham accent - Brummie. As opposed to Craig
> Charles' scouser accent from liverpool, ok chuck?

Yeah..Lister definatly has a Liverpool accent... and it's not put
 on as that is the way that Craig Charles talks as any one who 
 has seen him on various other programs will know....

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From: wcm@geac.com (W Christopher Martin)
Subject: Red Dwarf in Toronto
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 00:07:07 GMT
Distribution: tor
Organization: Geac Computer Corporation

I discovered this afternoon that YTV has stopped showing the
British TV series "Red Dwarf" on Saturdays at 4:30 p.m. I suppose
that this sort of schedule rearrangement is to be expected at this
time of year, but a quick scan through the TV guide didn't turn
up a new time.

If anyone notices "Red Dwarf" on any Toronto area station, I'd
appreciate hearing about it.

wcm
-- 
W. Christopher Martin <wcm@geac.com> "Is that an obvious shade of green?"
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From: adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: Scousers
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:09:05 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.125158.3179@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> mjb@gserv1.dl.ac.uk writes:
"HOW TO SPEAK SCOUSE - LESSON 1
"==============================
"Try saying - "Oh de do dough don't de dough !"
"repeat repeatedly.

no problem.
now if i only knew what it meant...

-- 
		+--------------------------------------------------------------+
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a_d_hay@att.com	"But that's a parrot!"		"I was TALKING to the parrot..."
		+--------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: sasse@netcom.com (Ellen Sasse)
Subject: Re: Pt 1/2: Red Dwarf Frequently Asked Questions List (Version 2.3)
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 10:13:08 GMT
Organization: Not
Summary: American rd fans may have seen fakey-Lister on "The Powers That Be" (ptui!)

Fritz.Niespodziany@p4.f41.n2403.z2.fidonet.org (Fritz Niespodziany) writes: 

>  JD> IS THERE GOING TO BE AN AMERICAN "RED DWARF"?

>  JD>     Maybe.  A pilot was produced for NBC, involving Grant Naylor
>  JD>     as technical consultants, Craig Bierko as Lister, Chris Eigelman
>  JD>     as Rimmer, Jane Leeves as Holly, Tony award winner Hinton Battle
>  JD>     as Cat, and Robert Llewellyn reprising his role as Kryten from
>  JD>     the British cast.

> I think I have to puke !

You'll puke even more if you know the actor that apparently played
Lister. Nothing against the guy personally, but he is just about as
wrong for Lister as you can get.

Craig Bierko played "Joe Bowman" on the short-lived American tv series
"The Powers That Be". The character was a former football hero who had been
disabled in a car wreck, was generally idolized by everyone, and was going
to run for President. He was also shallow, arrogant, smarmy, oily, loud,
and only masquerading as disabled for a publicity ploy. The character was
more like Confidence of "Confidence and Paranoia" only without the charisma,
than anything by any stretch of the imagination that Lister could be.

I find it just too odd to be a coincidence that they got a "Craig" to play
Lister and a "Chris" to play Rimmer. Do they think we Red Dwarf fans are so
inattentive that we would actually think it was the REAL Lister and Rimmer?!
The mind reels.

I also saw Hinton Battle (fakey-Cat) in another American series (failed
pilot about a black family who 'inherit' their ?best friend's? ?sibling's?
children after the ?friend/sibling? and spouse are unexpectedly killed
[car wreck I suppose, I just forwarded to find Hinton Battle]. Hinton
Battle played a sortof street vendor character called "Odie". His part
was too short to really tell anything (Bierko's was somewhat short, but he
was worse). Of course he's no Danny John-Jules, but as far as I could tell,
he might have some of the same style.

I once in a fit of Red Dwarf addiction indicated in a public forum that
I wished I could have seen the Americanized version, but have recovered
my senses now. (And if I hadn't, Craig Bierko would have resolved it).

Anyone else see these?
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: QUESTION
From: dprebyl@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 20:38:23 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City

I WAS JUST WONDERING...I KNOW THAT RED DWARF(ONE OF MY TWO MUST SEE TV SHOWS)
IS MADE OVER IN BRITIAN.  BUT WHAT I WONDER IS IF RED DWARF IS STILL BEING 
PRODUCED OR ARE WE JUST SEEING WHATEVER BRITAIN'S VERSION OF SYNDICATION IS?
From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: Holly's IQ
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:42:05 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <1992Sep8.131006.4851@cs.nott.ac.uk> nlc@vulcan.xtel.co.uk (Neil Cook) writes:
>Well, my scutters question was kind of answered, but I still want to
>know what happened to Holly's IQ. In the White Hole episode, they try to
>get Holly's IQ back up to its original 6000 or so, from the 60 (?) is was
>at the start of the episode. Have I missed something? What happened?
>
>Neil.

I don't quite understand what you are asking here. Holly went computer senial
during his/her 3,000,000 years alone in space.

His/her IQ was 6000 in the beginning (before the accident) but began to reduce
as the senility set in. I think that Holly managed to keep it from Lister, 
Rimmer and the Cat for a while and then (possibly with the addition of Kryten)
they realised.

Don't worry about continuity it just gets in the way of comedy......

		Andy
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From: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Rosaleen Dhu)
Subject: accents
Reply-To: st923058@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:35:15 GMT

If this is a repeat of a previous message, sorry. (We've been having some
problems with our server connections :() Does anyone know what accent the
actor (sorry, brand-new fan; don't know his name; either Craig something
or Chris something) who plays Lister is using? (Is it his own?) In the 
episode with the anti-crime planet he refers to being from, or having 
committed crimes in, Liverpool...but as a serious Beatles fan, I'll be damned
if that's a Liverpudlian accent. My jerkface brother, who went to London
last summer and heard lots of cool accents, claims it is Scottish, but it
does not linguistically correspond to any Scottish accent I've heard. 
(Although, to be honest, the most modern Scottish accents I've heard are Sean
Connery's and James Doohan's.) Alexei Sayle, the star of "Alexei Sayle's 
Stuff", which is the show which replaced "Red Dwarf" as the second show on
New Hampshire Public TV's British Comedy Hour, channel 11 or 10 if you have
cable, Sunday nights ten to eleven more or less, has the same accent. Can
anyone tell me what it is--it's perfect for a new character if I can just
get it right. Thanks!
				Rosaleen Dhu