History Trivia / RedDwarf

* InspirationForTheWork: The creators drew inspiration from the more realistic crop of science-fiction films of the 1970s, such as ''Film/SilentRunning'', ''Film/DarkStar'' and especially ''Film/{{Alien}}''.

** Kryten's name is taken from the play ''The Admirable Crichton'' (pronounced same).

* FakeNationality: The Swedish Olaf Peterson was played by the English Creator/MarkWilliams.

** Rebecca Blackstone played [[AIIsACrapshoot Pree]] in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXFathersAndSuns Fathers and Suns]]" and returned as [[HotScientist Big Bang Beryl]] in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeason XITwentica Twentica]]".

* TroubledProduction:
** Series I was held up for six months by industrial action at Creator/TheBBC. They also had so much trouble finding studio audiences that co-creator Doug Naylor had to go around pubs near the studio to recruit audience members. The recording of the first episode went so badly that they had to do it again at the end of the series with a reworked script.
** While Series IV in general wasn't overly problematic, two episodes caused troubles during filming. The first was "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVWhiteHole White Hole]]", where director Ed Bye fell ill and was hastily replaced by the show's executive producer, Paul Jackson, who soon came into conflict with Danny John-Jules after the latter was late to set, with Jackson later frequently chewing him out for flubbing lines during the shoot. The second troublesome episode was "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVMeltdown Meltdown]]", which had problems with terrible weather at their location (which forced the withdrawal of the original Gandhi actor after he came down with a cold), which also happened to be on the flight path to Heathrow airport, forcing filming to be stopped whenever a plane flew overhead. Then, the outbreak of the Gulf War caused the BBC to move it back to the end of the season.
** Series V suffered from the departure of long-standing director Ed Bye. His replacement, Juliet May, soon proved to be totally out of her element on the show, resulting in the intended season premiere "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVDemonsAndAngels Demons and Angels]]" having to be punted back to being the penultimate episode when it turned out that not one of the complicated split-screen shots required to show the crew's "high" and "low" forms was usable. As the season wore on it quickly became apparent that the cast had lost any respect they had for May, resulting in creator Rob Grant and Doug Naylor cutting their losses, firing May and directing the remainder of the season themselves.
** The abortive ''Red Dwarf USA'' pilot suffered from friction between Grant Naylor and the American creative team, the latter of whom quickly adopted a TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong stance and shut their British counterparts out of the writing process. Not to be deterred, Grant and Naylor rewrote the pilot script themselves, and the cast and director much preferred their script, but the American producers insisted on going ahead with the original version, which proved a bomb. Not to be deterred, Grant and Naylor managed to shoot a second pilot, a glorified promo reel with NoBudget... which got an even ''worse'' reception than the first pilot, and killed the whole thing completely.
** Grant and Naylor returned to the UK fully intending to write and direct Series VI themselves, with full creative control, only for the BBC to pour cold water on that dream by giving them just four months to write and film the whole series, forcing them to hire another new director (who, fortunately, proved up to the job this time). The rushed schedule forced a much bigger reliance on {{Running Gag}}s than in previous years, and resulted in the season finale, "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIOutOfTime Out of Time]]" being written ''as it was being shot'', with the script being typed directly onto autocues for the cast to read from. To boot, Grant and Naylor then had second thoughts about the original ending to the series and decided to turn it into a cliffhanger; as it was much too late to recall the cast, they had to improvise the cliffhanger in the edit suite using what had already been filmed.
** Series VII had a lot of trouble just getting to the point where they could even make it. Craig Charles was imprisoned due to a (eventually proven false) rape allegation, while Chris Barrie decided that he wanted to leave the show to focus on his own sitcom, ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' (eventually just starring in two episodes of Series VII, with cameos in two more). More seriously however, the strain of ''Red Dwarf USA'' and Series VI had caused the Grant Naylor writing partnership to collapse, leaving Doug Naylor to write the show alongside a bunch of new writers whose work always required extensive retooling. This time the troublesome creative process proved obvious on-screen, with Series VII being a ratings hit, but near-universally considered the show's worst season by some distance.
** Series VIII was planned to start with an hour-long special, "Back in the Red", which ended up turning into a three-part story when the budget ran out and it was the only way to make the requisite number of episodes; a lot of the third part is just padding to bulk the thing out. "Pete" was also originally a one-part story before it had to become a two-parter for similar reasons. Then the season finale came along. Doug Naylor initially wrote a ludicrously over-ambitious episode that would have seen Red Dwarf finally return to Earth, which couldn't be afforded largely because they had blown the budget on a CGI dinosaur for "Pete", before hastily writing the actual season-ending episode, "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIIIOnlyTheGood Only The Good...]]" Filming of that episode went well, albeit with Naylor having to pay for an all-important model out of his own pocket due to the budget having completely run out. But then Naylor decided to ditch the original ending (which clearly set up a Series IX) in favour of a more open-ended conclusion that would allow him to end the TV series and do a ContinuityReboot with the planned ''Red Dwarf: TheMovie'', while still doing Series IX if he wanted to. This resulted in the episode's eventual ending being something they thought of only ''minutes'' before shooting, with no idea how they were going to resolve it. There are ''four'' different endings to that series: two which were filmed but unused, one which was going to be filmed but cancelled so late that the cast were actually in costume ready to shoot it, and the ultimately used ending which replaced the cancelled ending at the last minute, and required the director to step in to play one of the parts using a costume nicked from another series.
** After ''Red Dwarf: The Movie'' died in DevelopmentHell, the eventual Series IX took the form of a three-part miniseries called "Back to Earth." Unfortunately, they only had the budget for a ''two''-part miniseries; it was originally supposed to be accompanied by a standalone special named "Red Dwarf Unplugged," where the cast would have performed classic ''Red Dwarf'' sketches before a live audience, but during a run-through it was realized that the special simply didn't work on any level whatsoever. Since Grant Naylor was still under contract to provide three episodes however, they had to stretch their minimal budget out in any way they could.
** Series X had a myriad of problems which began from two things. Firstly, Chris Barrie and Craig Charles flat-out refused to return unless every episode was shot before a live audience. This wasn't a problem back when the BBC were still making the show, as they handled that in-house, but Grant Naylor had to hire an external agency to do provide the audience at considerable expense, which in turn caused nearly all the season's location scenes to be scrapped. Secondly, the season's intended producer, Jo Howard (who had worked on the show in various capacities since Series III, and produced "[[Recap/RedDwarfBackToEarth Back to Earth]]") was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, which claimed her life not long afterwards. She was hastily replaced by Doug Naylor's son Richard, who did an admirable job given the circumstances, but made several beginner's mistakes which caused filming to be incredibly rushed. Thirdly, the cancellation of all the location filming meant that the originally planned episodes 5 & 6 were now unusable despite having been written; both had to be thrown out, and replacements were being written ''whilst the other four were being filmed''. Only half of the new episode 5, "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXDearDave Dear Dave]]", could be filmed in front of an audience ''because that was all that had been written'', and they had to go back later, film new material on greenscreen and splice it together. (The new episode 6 managed to avoid similar problems by cannibalising the script for the abandoned movie.) On top of all this, there was a camera problem that required substantial re-editing on the first episode of the season, something not helped when all the rushes went missing.
** Series XI and XII were filmed back-to-back, and generally went smoothly (thanks to another production company being brought in to take some of the pressure off Doug Naylor), with XI being a rare example of an entire series of the show being produced completely free of incident (barring a fire alarm going off midway through the live audience recording for "Samsara"). The first recorded episode of XII, "Siliconia", didn't fare so well, with the prosthetics the regular cast were required to wear for the episode making Chris Barrie ill, meaning some of the scenes meant to be filmed on location had to be cancelled. Robert Llewellyn also came down sick during the filming of "Timewave", and the knock-on effect was that the date in which the finale was filmed in front of the studio audience had to be moved to accommodate the missing scenes from the earlier episodes (and even then they were not able to pick up all of the missing scenes, which resulted in some plotting issues with the broadcast episodes).
** "The Promised Land" had Robert Llewellyn fall ill mid-shoot, with a body double in an immobile mask filling in for some shots until he had recovered enough to continue filming and reshoot missed scenes, in particular some scenes aboard the ''Iron Star.''

** "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXTrojan Trojan]]" is the basic premise of "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeason VIIBeyondAJoke Beyond a Joke]]" focusing on Rimmer instead of Kryten.

** In the first episode of Series VI, "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIPsirens Psirens]]", Lister admits essentially losing Red Dwarf due to not being able to remember which planetoid he has parked it in orbit of. As a result, the 4 of them are confined to the by far smaller scouting vessel Starbug. This was partly down to Grant Naylor wanted to write out Holly as the character had become redundant.

* TooSoon: The running order of Series IV was changed because of the Gulf War.

* AmateurCast: The original cast had all ''appeared'' on TV and/or film before, but none of them were "proper actors": Creator/ChrisBarrie was an impressionist and voice actor, Creator/CraigCharles was a poet, Creator/DannyJohnJules was a dancer, and Norman Lovett was a stand-up comedian. Clare Grogan did have some acting credits, including a role in ''Film/GregorysGirl'', but was primarily known as the lead singer of the new wave band Altered Images before being cast. Likewise, Hattie Hayridge was also a stand-up comedian before joining the cast in Series III; however, Creator/RobertLlewellyn and Chloë Annett (who joined the cast in Series III and VII respectively) were both "legit" actors.

* AmateurCast: The original cast had all ''appeared'' on TV and/or film before, but none of them were "proper actors": Creator/ChrisBarrie was an impressionist and voice actor, Creator/CraigCharles was a poet, Creator/DannyJohnJules was a dancer, and Norman Lovett was a stand-up comedian. Likewise, Hattie Hayridge was also a stand-up comedian before joining the cast in Series III; however, Creator/RobertLlewellyn and Chloë Annett (who joined the cast in Series III and VII respectively) were both "legit" actors.

* PhraseCatcher: Everyone who has ever met Ace Rimmer.

** EverybodysDeadDave

* DevelopmentGag: One idea considered during pre-production of the original series was to have Rimmer appear in black and white. The technology of the time meant this wasn't feasible but by 2019 technology had advanced to the point where The Promised Land was able to turn him black and white while in Low Power Mode.

* AmateurCast: The original cast had all ''appeared'' on TV and/or film before, but none of them were "proper actors": Chris Barrie was an impressionist and voice actor, Creator/CraigCharles was a poet, Danny John-Jules was a dancer, and Norman Lovett was a stand-up comedian. Likewise, Hattie Hayridge was also a stand-up comedian before joining the cast in Series III; however, Robert Llewellyn and Chloë Annett (who joined the cast in Series III and VII respectively) were both "legit" actors.

** Denis Lill was both the Simulant Captain and Death in "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIGunmenOfTheApocalypse Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]", which makes sense, since the Simulant Captain would have been the one to create the Armageddon virus and his role as the episode's BigBad would have been etched into Kryten's mind for the BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind that his psyche interprets as a western.

** There was, at one point, a Christmas Special in development, which never made it off the ground. Bill Pearson built a single model for it, which was recycled as the Simulant Death Ship in "The Beginning".

** Talkie Toaster (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin) was voiced by John Lenahan in Series I and II (although his scenes were cut for the latter.) When the character resurfaced briefly in a Series IV episode ("[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVWhiteHole White Hole]]"), not only was he voiced by David Ross (the original Kryten) but the original prop had been replaced as well. when the character returned for (''[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonXIIMechocracy]]") Ross reprised the role.

* ThePeteBest: Kryten first appeared in a one-off appearance in Season 2 where he was played by David Ross. The character proved popular and opened up more storytelling possibilities, so Grant and Naylor decided to bring him back as a regular -- Ross was unable to take the role due to scheduling commitments, however, so he was replaced by Robert Llewellyn (with a HandWave about how his appearance and personality was now different). Llewellyn proceeded to make the part his own, and even co-write the episode ("[[RedDwarfSeason7BeyondAJoke}}").

** Every single episode (except for Series X) gets a DVD commentary track from the entire cast for that whole series. The exception is Series V, which Creator/CraigCharles couldn't show up to the commentary recording for due to being ill — so instead the other actors all imitate him and mercilessly make fun of him while he's not there. Series V and VI also include a fan commentary on the most popular episode of each series. The one for "Back to Reality" had someone from the studio sitting in to make sure the fans didn't just quote the entire episode as it happened.
** Series VII also features Chris Barrie commenting on episodes he doesn't appear in (his character left in episode 2 but appeared in flashbacks in two more episodes after that) and for one episode he basically complains how boring it is, and the rest of the cast agree.

* McLeaned: Norman Lovett left due to behind-the-scenes issues.

** Talkie Toaster (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin) was voiced by John Lenahan in Series I and II (although his scenes were cut for the latter.) When the character resurfaced briefly in a Series IV episode ("[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIVWhiteHole White Hole]]"), not only was he voiced by David Ross (the original Kryten) but the original prop had been replaced as well.

* ThePeteBest: Kryten first appeared in a one-off appearance in Season 2 where he was played by David Ross. The character proved popular and opened up more storytelling possibilities, so Grant and Naylor decided to bring him back as a regular -- Ross was unable to take the role due to scheduling commitments, however, so he was replaced by Robert Llewellyn (with a HandWave about how his appearance and personality was now different). Llewellyn proceeded to make the part his own, and even write some episodes.

* BreakawayPopHit: The song "Tongue Tied" from (from the Series II episode "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season II Parallel Universe}} Parallel Universe]]") was so popular amongst fans that it was released as a single (complete with remixes) in order to coincide with Series 6, several years (and four series) after the episode aired. This is especially impressive because the show never spawned an actual soundtrack album. The episode is one of the most popular of Series II largely because of this song.

** Rimmer's impressions and parroting while he malfunctions in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season II Queeg}} Queeg]]". Chris Barrie is a trained impersonator who had already starred in ''Series/SpittingImage''. Chris Barrie's lip synching and mannerisms when playing the other characters are also far more convincing than the other actors' in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season III Bodyswap}} Bodyswap]]".

** That cool instrumental Kryten is playing air guitar to in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season III Timeslides}} Timeslides]]"? Creator/CraigCharles wrote it. He also wrote and sang the song that plays in the same episode as Lister arrives at his mansion.
* ChannelHop: Originally broadcast on Creator/TheBBC, it fell by the wayside after series VIII. After repeats on Dave became hugely popular, the "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]" special was created and on the back of that series X came to be.

** In [[http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/10/blast-from-the-past-chris-barrie-attacks-red-dwarf-in-newly-re-emerged-1993-interview/ this]] 1993 interview with ''Starbust Magazine'', Chris Barrie was highly critical of Series VI. Though, as the article states in a post-script clarification, with the interview being published - and likely held - in 1993, the fact that Chris Barrie was actively filming for both Series VI of Red Dwarf ''and'' Series 4 of ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' could have led to exhaustion and burnout at the time. Especially considering Series VI was the only time Red Dwarf won an award; scoring an International Emmy for "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVIGunmenOfTheApocalypse Gunmen Of The Apocalypse]]". However, this was still an issue by the time Series VII was filmed in 1996, with Barrie wishing to leave the series and only appearing in half the episodes that series -- although Barrie enjoyed working on VII so much that he quickly agreed to return for VIII, and has since said he regrets not appearing in the second half of VII.

-->'''Naylor''' [''of the new ending in the Remastered version'']: My memory was that the rework was funnier... but that clearly isn't.

** Robert Llewellyn's favourite episode was "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VIII Krytie TV}} Krytie TV]]".

* DoingItForTheArt: ''[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]'', despite its small budget, looks quite impressive for a TV production. This is because several members of the production team actually worked for free; the CG Skutter seen in part 1 was done entirely by one person for no pay, simply because he loved the show so much.

** Craig Charles had the flu during the filming of "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Fathers and Suns}} Fathers and Suns]]". The heavy sweating and generally ill look during Lister's video rant to himself was genuine.

* NamesTheSame: "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Lemons}} Lemons]]" has the Dwarfers travel to the past and end up meeting a traveller named [[spoiler:Jesus during the years little was chronicled about him]]...but then it turns out [[spoiler:Jesus]] was a common name back then...

** Talkie Toaster (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin) was voiced by John Lenahan in Series I and II (although his scenes were cut for the latter.) When the character resurfaced briefly in a Series IV episode ("[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season IV White Hole}} White Hole]]"), not only was he voiced by David Ross (the original Kryten) but the original prop had been replaced as well.

** Rimmer's father was played by John Abineri in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season II Better Than Life}} Better Than Life]]". After Abineri's death, in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X The Beginning}} The Beginning]]", he was played by Simon Treves.

** Also completely changed the course of Series [=VIII=]. Originally, it was going to end with a two-parter, culminating in the crew finally returning to Earth but obliterating civilisation as they arrive. However, circumstances meant the hour-long series opener had to become a three-parter, another episode had to become a two-parter and the series had to finish on a cliffhanger.
** "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season IV Meltdown}} Meltdown]]" was intended to be the opening episode of Series IV. However it was moved to the sixth and last episode because of concerns that viewers would consider it insensitive due to the Gulf War. If hostilities had continued, it might not have been shown at all.

** Creator/CraigCharles's younger brother Emile plays Lister's 17-year-old younger self in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season III Timeslides}} Timeslides]]".

** Alexander John-Jules (Danny's nephew) as Baby Lister in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VII Ouroboros}} Ouroboros]]".
** Ed Bye's wife Ruby Wax as Blaze Falconburger in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season III Timeslides}} Timeslides]]".

* RecursiveAdaptation: The novels ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' and ''Better Than Life'' had some plots used for episodes of the TV show, notably in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season IV White Hole}} White Hole]]". The book also explains a lot of what happened before most of the crew were killed, and some of it was adapted into Series 8. Something of a subversion in that the book is often inconsistent with the show's plot, but this was done deliberately (it is inconsistent in show too). The other books ''Backwards'' and ''Last Human'' had some features put into the show too, but none as much as the first two books.

** "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Trojan}} Trojan]]" is the basic premise of "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VII Beyond a Joke}} Beyond a Joke]]" focusing on Rimmer instead of Kryten.
** "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X The Beginning}} The Beginning]]" takes several elements from a draft of the movie script.
* RecycledSet: For series X, the same set was modified to create the marketplace, the Trojan's bridge and the Simulants' council room. The Blue Midget set seen in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Entangled}} Entangled]]" and "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X The Beginning}} The Beginning]]" is a redressed version of the Red Dwarf driveroom set.

** Series V suffered from the departure of long-standing director Ed Bye. His replacement, Juliet May soon proved to be totally out of her element on the show, resulting in the intended season premiere "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season V Demons and Angels}} Demons and Angels]]" having to be punted back to being the penultimate episode when it turned out that not one of the complicated split-screen shots required to show the crew's "high" and "low" forms was usable. As the season wore on it quickly became apparent that the cast had lost any respect they had for May, resulting in creator Rob Grant and Doug Naylor cutting their losses, firing May and directing the remainder of the season themselves.

** Series VIII was planned to start with an hour-long special, "Back in the Red", which ended up turning into a three-part story when the budget ran out and it was the only way to make the requisite number of episodes; a lot of the third part is just padding to bulk the thing out. "Pete" was also originally a one-part story before it had to become a two-parter for similar reasons. Then the season finale came along. Doug Naylor initially wrote a ludicrously over-ambitious episode that would have seen Red Dwarf finally return to Earth, which couldn't be afforded largely because they had blown the budget on a CGI dinosaur for "Pete", before hastily writing the actual season-ending episode, "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VIII Only The Good}} Only The Good...]]" Filming of that episode went well, albeit with Naylor having to pay for an all-important model out of his own pocket due to the budget having completely run out. But then Naylor decided to ditch the original ending (which clearly set up a Series IX) in favour of a more open-ended conclusion that would allow him to end the TV series and do a ContinuityReboot with the planned ''Red Dwarf: TheMovie'', while still doing Series IX if he wanted to. This resulted in the episode's eventual ending being something they thought of only ''minutes'' before shooting, with no idea how they were going to resolve it. There are ''four'' different endings to that series: two which were filmed but unused, one which was going to be filmed but cancelled so late that the cast were actually in costume ready to shoot it, and the ultimately used ending which replaced the cancelled ending at the last minute, and required the director to step in to play one of the parts using a costume nicked from another series.

** Series X had a myriad of problems which began from two things. Firstly, Chris Barrie and Craig Charles flat-out refused to return unless every episode was shot before a live audience. This wasn't a problem back when the BBC were still making the show, as they handled that in-house, but Grant Naylor had to hire an external agency to do provide the audience at considerable expense, which in turn caused nearly all the season's location scenes to be scrapped. Secondly, the season's intended producer, Jo Howard (who had worked on the show in various capacities since Series III, and produced "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]") was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, which claimed her life not long afterwards. She was hastily replaced by Doug Naylor's son Richard, who did an admirable job given the circumstances, but made several beginner's mistakes which caused filming to be incredibly rushed. Thirdly, the cancellation of all the location filming meant that the originally planned episodes 5 & 6 were now unusable despite having been written; both had to be thrown out, and replacements were being written ''whilst the other four were being filmed''. Only half of the new episode 5, "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Dear Dave}} Dear Dave]]", could be filmed in front of an audience ''because that was all that had been written'', and they had to go back later, film new material on greenscreen and splice it together. (The new episode 6 managed to avoid similar problems by cannibalising the script for the abandoned movie.) On top of all this, there was a camera problem that required substantial re-editing on the first episode of the season, something not helped when all the rushes went missing.

** "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VIII Krytie TV}} Krytie TV]]" is a pretty specific parody of the prank TV shows that were around in the mid-late 1990s.

** Tony Hawks, who plays the in-game guide to ''Better than Life'' later appears in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season III Backwards}} Backwards]]", introducing the Sensational Reverse Brothers. He had also previously been the voice of the vending machines in the first series and later played Caligula in the fourth. The cast referred to him as "The Fifth Dwarfer" during the first two series. The show also contains a deliberate example; between Series II and III, the change in actor for Holly is explained away as him having fallen in love with his mirror universe counterpart Hilly, to the extent that he decided he wanted to ''become'' her - hence Hattie Hayridge playing both characters.

** As an example of You ''Sound'' Familiar, in the episode "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season IV White Hole}} White Hole]]" Talkie Toaster was voiced by David Ross, who was the original actor for Kryten.
** The BEGG chief in the Series X episode "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Entangled}} Entangled]]" is played by the same man who played Lister's GELF bride in the Series VI episode "Emohawk: Polymorph II".
** Richard O'Callaghan played The Creator in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Back To Earth}} Back to Earth]]" and Hogey The Roguey in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X The Beginning}} The Beginning]]".
** Rebecca Blackstone played [[AIIsACrapshoot Pree]] in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season X Fathers and Suns}} Fathers and Suns]]" and returned as [[HotScientist Big Bang Beryl]] in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season XI Twentica}} Twentica]]".
** Denis Lill was both the Simulant Captain and Death in "[[Recap/{{Red Dwarf Season VI Gunmen of the Apocalypse}} Gunmen of the Apocalypse]]", which makes sense, since the Simulant Captain would have been the one to create the Armageddon virus and his role as the episode's BigBad would have been etched into Kryten's mind for the BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind that his psyche interprets as a western.