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- Subject: Re: Red Dwarf
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- From: ace@kryton.UUCP (Catherine Beckstead)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:01:49 PST
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- 2puhsagely@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
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- > Is there any fans of the British TV show Red Dwarf. Its about a mining ship
- > which has a nuculear accident that kills the entire crew except for one man i
- > stasis. The ship leaves the Solar System for safety reasons and the man in
- > stasis is not revived untill the radiation levels are safe some three million
- > years latter. He owned a cat which had kittens and survived the accident. T
- > cats evolve into an intelligent race and leave the ship except for one cat.
- > The only living man also has as a companion a hologram of his dead bunkmate.
- > The show is on Saturday night on KCPT Kansas City Public television. I wonde
- > how many episodes there are and if it is still being made. The show is based
- > on a book by the same name. Is there any sequels to the book?
-
- Yes, I'm a fan! The book is based on the show. The dedication in the
- book is to the cast and crew of the show, so I'm assuming. The first
- book is called "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers", and the
- sequel is "Better Then Life". There are five seasons of the show, each
- season, (or series as the Britons would say) are six episodes long.
- Many PBS stations have shown through season 4, (execpt mine in LA, which
- has it to show, but keeps putting it off, even after my many angry phone
- calls. I subscribe, aren't they supposed to listen to me? Oh well they
- haven't heard the last of me, HA!). It is a great series. And very
- funny. There was an attempt last year at making an American version of
- Red Dwarf. They did make the pilot. But the characters were all wrong.
- Lister was a blonde GQ beach boy type, for example. Needless to say,
- NBC did not buy it, and it is now shelved permenently as far as I know.
- But Robert LLewellan did get a much better Kryten costume, (it was
- done my an LA FX company for the American version, and he will be able
- to use it for the British series. Supposedly when Robert heard that he
- got the part for the Amercian version he "accidently" stomped on his old
- costume and it just fell apart into lots of little pieces. :) The
- old costume was very uncomfortable burlap type material in it that made
- him itch for hours. The new on is make of lycra/spandex and other
- assorted comfortable material. I guess the BBC is real cheap on
- costuming. I got this info, from the guys at the FX company who made the
- American costume. They were guests at a local con here in LA. There is
- an alt group for this show, alt.tv.red-dwarf, but I don't get it. So
- I'll be glad to talk about RD with anyone who wants to. :)
-
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- Catherine Beckstead ace@kryton.uucp
- "Do you want to argue with a can of deodorant that registers
- NINE on the Richter scale?" --Ace, in "Dragonfire"
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