From: Aaron.Roydhouse@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Aaron Roydhouse)
Subject: Red Dwarf returns... 'Ahead groove factor 5! Yeah!' - Holly
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:30:41 GMT


Beyond all expectation TVNZ is showing another series of Red Dwarf!

Red Dwarf, series III, TVNZ Channel 2, Sundays 11:10pm

"Red Dwarf III: The Same Generation...nearly"

If you didn't realise this then you've unfortunately missed the first
episode "Backwards". It was a real treat of creative editing for a
smooth yet characteristically mind-boggling story :-). [If anyone
local wants to catch up, I have a video copy]

The are five more episodes in this series: "Marooned", "Polymorph",
"Body Swap", "Time Slides", and "The Last Day".

For those hardened fans and readers of alt.tv.red-dwarf I have
the accoutrements of fandom:

episode-guide       - (Barry Williams) Guide to all Red Dwarf episodes
red-dwarf-guide     - (Otto E. Heuer) Guide to Red Dwarf
reddwarf-logo.gif   - GIF file of the Red Dwarf logo
favorite-quotes     - Best lines in Red Dwarf

I've asked Nathan to make them available on ftphost.vuw.ac.nz, in the
meantime locals can find them in ~aaron/info/red-dwarf.

In next week's episode, "Marooned": "Lister and Rimmer find themselves
marooned on an arctic moon, with only a pot noodle and a tin of dogfood
between them.  And there's no way Lister is eating the pot noodle."

For those who have caught up on this classic of low-cost low-brow
British comedy, or those who couldn't read the high-speed scrolling
text at the beginning of last night's episode, here's as intro to the
series:

|> Three million years in the future, Dave Lister, the last human being
|> alive, discovers he is pregnant after a liason with his female self in a
|> parallel universe. His pregnancy concludes with the successful delivery
|> of twin boys, Jim and Bexley. However, because the boys were conceived
|> in another universe, with different physical laws, they suffer from
|> highly accelorated growth rates and are both eighteen years old within
|> three days of being born. In order to save their lives, Lister returns
|> them to the universe of their origin, where they are reunited with their
|> father (a woman), and are able to lead comparatively normal lives. Well,
|> as normal as you can be if you've been born in a parallel universe and
|> your father's a woman and your mother's a man and you're eighteen years
|> old three days after your birth. Shortly afterwards, Kryten, the service
|> mechanoid, who had left the ship after being rescued from his own
|> crashed vessel, the Nova 5, is found in pieces after his space bike
|> crashed into an astroid. Lister rebuilds the 'roid, but is unable to
|> recapture his former personality. Meanwhile, Holly, the increasingly
|> erratic Red Dwarf computer, performs a head sex change operation on
|> himself. He bases his new face on Hilly, a female computer with whom
|> he'd once fallen madly in love.
|> ...and now the saga continuums
|> Red Dwarf III: The Same Generation...nearly
|>   -- Opening crawl from _Backwards_

And just for fun here's the words to the theme song from the end
credits (so you can sing along :-)

        "It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere,
        I'm all alone, more or less.
        Let me fly far away from here,
        Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun.

        I want to lie shipwrecked and comatose,
        drinking fresh mango juice.
        Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes,  
        Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun,
        Fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun."

Aaron.


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