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Dave Hollins: Space Cadet was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 23 June 2014 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Red Dwarf. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

The Temporary Absence Of Rimmer

This isn't explained from a real world point of view : the actor Chris Barrie got to make a BBC 1 sitcom called The Brittas Empire, where he was the star. For a time it became extremely successful, and as production duly increased he had to drop out of Red Dwarf (where he wasn't the star and that sitcom was on BBC 2 so was less popular and less in demand by viewers and the BBC). As the popularity of the Brittas Empire series duly faded and it was axed though, he was duly able to return to Red Dwarf again.

Editing too picky?

When using "Num_Seasons" I kept getting an error I couldn't figure out, turns out Misplaced Pages doesn't like capital letters, and only accepted it when I put it as "num_seasons" trying to get it to work... Am I the only one who thinks that's a bit overly particular? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scheuerman2 (talk • contribs) 07:16, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Use of lower case is common practice in infoboxes and and sticking with just one case provides consistency. Given that every other field is in lowercase it should have been obvious that lowercase is required and it's also specified in the instructions so it shouldn't be an issue. Why were you trying to use num_seasons in this article when it already uses num_series? --AussieLegend (✉) 08:08, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

UK v USA

show v series

series v seasons

Oko5ekmi5 (talk) 20:51, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

Moving the page/Adding "sitcom"

The page has been moved so that now "(sitcom)" is included at the end. This has been done to try and stop confusion between the TV show, and the type of star. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Planetkid32 (talk • contribs) 23:23, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

I've undone this well-intentioned rename. There have been several previous threads about that, and a previous WP:RM to include a disambiguation token which did not find consensus to do so (/Archive 3#Requested move). That was years ago, so consensus could change...feel free to start a new discussion. Technically, the move was also flawed in that it did not move all the archives (just something to keep in mind for any future moves here or elsewhere). DMacks (talk) 01:49, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Any moves should be made in acoordance with WP:NCTV and "(sitcom)" is not appropriate disambiguation for this article. --AussieLegend (✉) 16:47, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Timeframe of first episode listed is incorrect

Plot "In the first episode, set sometime in the late 22nd century". In S2 E4, Stasis Leak, a full date and time clock is shown. It reads "Wednesday 2 March 2077 08:33". Lister sees this clock and notes that it is 3 weeks before the radiation leak that kills the crew. Edit I would suggest is changing "late 22nd century" to early. Redcypherdawn (talk) 07:34, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Err meant edit it to late 21st Century from late 22nd. Redcypherdawn (talk) 07:40, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Logo

Just as an aside for the logo caption, the 1989-91 and post 2016 logos are clearly a different serif serif font to the ones used in the original DVD set and on screen from 1992 (that are serif). For instance, this Digital Spy article specifies the 2016 logo as resembling the font and logo of "the early series". TardisTybort (talk) 22:10, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Interesting notice

In Once Upon a Time... Space, there was spaceship that kind of looks like SS JMC Red Dwarf

Io99 (talk) 18:21, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Missing on British Sci-Fi TV category page

This Red Dwarf tv series is entirely missing from the category list of British TV science fiction series found here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Category:British_science_fiction_television_shows Chaseholden (talk) 03:00, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Missing in British tv science fiction

This Red Dwarf tv series is entirely missing from the category list of British TV science fiction series found here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/Category:British_science_fiction_television_shows

Chaseholden (talk) 03:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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