Red Dwarf has been resurrected by digital channel Dave for a two-part Easter weekend special, which sees the Crew finally return to Earth. Written by Red Dwarf creator Doug Nylor, Red Dwarf:Return to Earth reunited the four main characters. Red Dwarf is a BBC2 sci fi comedy show, widely broadcast in America on PBS. In it’s eight searies from 1988 to 1999 there were a lot of changes in the always bizarre plot and characters of Red Dwarf. Holly the computer was a man’s floating head, then a woman’s floating head, them missing completely for long periods. The four mainstays…
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Rainbow Innuendo-Watch The Clip
Freddy: “We could hear you all banging away”Rod: “Banging can be fun.”Jane: “Ooooh yes, and I was banging away all last night with Rod andFreddy.” Rainbow was a British children’s television series, created by Pamela Lonsdale, which ran twice weekly at 12:10 on Tuesdays and Fridays on the ITV network, from 1972 to 1992. I saw this clip on Plurk earlier and thought that it was just dead brilliant. The Wife wonders how they managed to keep straight faces throughout the sketch. Just watching it the first time I missed a few of the gags, as it is a lot…
Primeval-Monsters Out of Time
Primeval is a British ITV show about holes in time that varied and sundry beasties wander through. They all end up near London and our merry band of heroes is always there to save the day. In the tradition of Dr Who Primeval is a sort of Sci Fi show, in that there doesn’t seem to be much real science, but there is a lot of fiction. Also like Dr Who, the special effects are not exactly up there with Jurassic Park. Primeval is coming to BBC America on August 9th and I’m sure fans of Dr Who and Torchwood…