Trivia / Red Dwarf Season VII "Stoke Me a Clipper"

• Contest Winner Cameo: Fan and competition winner Cara Williams was also present as an extra; wearing green to the left of the Good Knight.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: The episode was a favorite of Chris Barrie because he enjoyed doing the James Bond style opening sequence in which Ace Rimmer does battle with the Nazis and rescues Princess Bonjella.
• Deleted Scene: Scenes cut from the episode:
  • An extended opening scene, trimmed for time and pacing purposes when Ace Rimmer emerges from his bonds and into the cockpit of the Nazi plane. Ace says "Sorry, chaps, dying is not on today's itinerary", whilst throwing his cigar at them. After shooting the pilot and the Nazi with glasses, taking his gun and pointing it at Captain Voorhese. Ace says to him, "Don't usually shoot an unarmed man, Voorhesey. Not cricket. But in your case, I'm prepared to make an exception". Voorhese says, "I'm touched", before throwing Snappy at Ace.
  • As Ace lands Snappy's jaws on Captain Voorhese's head in mid-air, Ace says "Mind if I borrow this?" as he takes his parachute. As he falls, Ace says "I'll be sure to return it as soon as you hit the ground." The blue screen was never completed for additional dialogue.
  • The original take of the medieval shoot in the Camelot Game was re-shot on a sunny day, as during the original take it was overcast, windy, wet, and drizzling. The original take is seen here in full, including extended dialogue between Lister of Smeg and the King of Camelot. As Lister says that he wants a "night and a day in the bed of your good lady", the crowd of common folk behind are notably more aggravated, shouting traitor. The King says that it is the most extraordinary request he's ever heard. Lister thinks he doesn't understand, and so reiterates that he means he wants to have sex with her in a "24-hour love fest". The Queen immediately accepts the challenge.
  • With Lister and Kryten pulled out of the game early to notice that the red, green, and blue alert signs of Starbug are all flashing, Kryten says "We are either under attack or we're having a disco." Lister then says, "You can discount the second option, Rimmer banned discos when he saw how I danced the Funky Chicken".
  • Extra moments of Rimmer and Ace. Rimmer seems happy that Ace is on his way out. Ace tells him that he wants Rimmer to become the next Ace, going off on a trans-dimensional quest to defend the weak and that he wishes he'd made it to a dimension where he was made of studier stuff. During the AR training, Ace says it's good to be in high places so you can get the big picture. Rimmer says to look down girls' cleavages.
  • The new Ace Rimmer reveals his origins to Lister. In his dimension, the divergent point was fairly recent, from Lister's viewpoint. He stole the Time Drive on the Gemini 12 and left his crew for dead. He wound up in Napoleonic times, hiding as a woman in a dress and working in a florist's to avoid conscription. The prior Ace approached him to pass on the flame. He uses it as an example of how they "all start out as caterpillars and end up butterflies".
• Edited for Syndication: All shots of the shaking tent while Lister beds the Queen were cut from a 2012 repeat.
• Never Work with Children or Animals: The accident report from the set reveals injury to props man Nigel Pinhay, who was bitten by the hamster brought in for the dual Rimmer training scene.
• Real-Life Relative: Doug Naylor's son, Richard Naylor, who was just a boy at the time, was an extra in the crowd. He would later go on to become a producer of the series after Red Dwarf: Back to Earth and during Series X, XI, and XII.
• Working Title: The original title of the episode was "Natural Born Rimmers", but this was altered due to the negative connotations this could imply.

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