From: neilp@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Postlethwaite)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.red-dwarf
Subject: Re: curses! ALSO Craig Charles/Robert Llywellyn Interview.
Date: 27 Jul 92 19:43:30 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

In article <14svl3INNt7q@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> keeper@deeptht.armory.com writes:
>
>Yes, alas -- apparently down there you guys are just now getting round to
>seeing series 3 ...
>
>But speaking of series 5, I finally got to see it yesterday.  (No spoilers
>will be in this article (any that do will be well encrypted and unintelligible
>for one who doesn't know the references).)
>
>Didn't seem as funny as series 4, but that can be attributed perhaps to
>Neil Postlethwaite's episode descriptions being far more detailed (the whole
>script most of the time!) than last year, so I already knew the jokes.
>(Actually, I don't recall if it was Neil who did the episode summaries of
>series 4 last year.)

Nope it wasn't.

>But, still it was quite entertaining.  It seemed that sometimes they got so
>much into the plot that there really wasn't much humour opportunity.

Leave the tape lying for a week or two and then watch it again. The more I
see series 5 the better and better it gets.

>Did the `minute' tombstone read "CHARITY"?  I can't quite make it out on my
>monitor.  A friend's was a bit clearer, but it'd be nice to know for certain.

Yes, the tombstone WAS charity and it WAS seriously minute !!

(Guess you must have a ho-hum copy eh !! :-))

>Not really RD related, but when did the BBC2 logo change from the red, white
>and blue "TWO" to that spacy "2"? and why does "888" appear on the top right?

Oh the BBC 2 logo's changed about 2 or so years ago. There are several 
variations on the theme. A dull 2 sitting in the middle of the screen and
then greenish paint falls vertically right to left (duh !!, the camera is
at 90 deg) is one of them. BBC2 was thought of as needing a new image so
an advertising consultancy came up with these. At first I wasn't sure,
but now I think they are really cool.

>Although it was a good setup to the joke, it didn't make sense to refer to
>them as the "Dibbley Party," did it?  Why would he be listed as the leader?
>Maybe it's just that he was the first who registered or something... who knows.

Dwane was the leader because Col Sebastian Doyle wanted to get away from
things for a while because he was sick of his job. The disappearence was
kept a mystery. Thus, it wasn't Col Sebastian Doyle's Party.

>After the final episode, there was a bit of rehashed footage from RD3-6,
>"The Last Day," where hung-over Kryten's head rolls onto a remote control,
>activating a screen.  But the screen instead had a graphic and a voice saying
>something about "Red Dwarf Memory Bank Activated."  The tape ended there,
>though.  I assume this scene was to introduce the repeats that began in the
>same time slot that RD5 occupied.  Was there anything of interest in this
>skit?  Was it just the voiceover?

Ahh, you mean the crap trailer/ad for the BBC videos. Appaling ain't it !!

Basically it was a cobbled together set of clips for series II and III on
sell-through tape. Just be grateful you missed the joint Red Dwarf/Blakes 7
and Dr Who ad. This was even worse.


>Well, there's not much to say that hasn't already been said.
>
>So those who are worried about me spoiling major plot points can rest assured.
>
>CONDITION CHARTREUSE
>
>and now, to end this article in a really annoying, cryptic manner:
>
>"Danny John-Jules is currently appearing in `Carmen Jones' at the Old Vic."
>
>(arrgh!)


I he's not STILL there is he !!

--

Something I forgot to post last week.

David Llewellyn and Craig Charles were on Parallel 9 - a seriously crap
Saturday kids TV show (Ok, it's got Toxic Crusaders on it. That's about
all !!).

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 !!). Also one of the
foundations that Red Dwarf is built on is that Aliens *do not exist*
(pisser for Rimmer eh !!. Now where DID that whole bog roll go then ?).

Apart from this, nothing but "Shockingly Good Children's Television"

Neil

P.S. Craig Charles also had NO 'locks'.


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