Category: Red Dwarf
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Would Anyone Like Any Toast?
I can smell toast. And now all I can think about is Talkie Toaster. So let’s examine his journey through the Red Dwarf universe. But this is perhaps his more famous appearance. With this too. Given the lead time in publishing though, it’s more than likely that this reappearance of the fella was predated by…
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I Am A Fish 400 Times
I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but there’s a lot of proto Red Dwarf in Grant & Naylor’s Radio 4 sketch shows Cliche and Son Of Cliche. If you want to hear the genesis and development of Hol Rock, have a listen if you can. It’s always fascinating. Today though, let’s look at a…
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Purple Alert
It’s not as bad as a Red Alert, but a bit worse than a Blue Alert. More of a mauve alert really.
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Wrinkles
Over on the newly redesigned Ganymede & Titan website, you will find tucked away in a corner some old radio shows written bt Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, a little before Cliche, and a while before Red Dwarf hit our screens. I hope they don’t mind me embedding the first episode of Wrinkles for you…
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Portable TV Comedy
Whilst walking through the bitter cold wind, a hundred metres from anyone else, I had a pang of nostalgia for when I used to stay up late in my bedroom and watch all sorts of brilliant comedy shows on my black and white portable TV. So, imagine some of these in monochrome, and slightly out…
