DwarfCast 166 – Re-Disc-overy: Series IV

"Ribs and Pipes and Penises (oh my!)" Our voyage
of re-disc-overy continues, as we tackle a most unusual release;
the one that was out in the US before the UK, and that Young
Cappsy managed to review before Young Ian for once. We rake over
this bitterness as well as embarking on not one, not two, but
three commentaries, forgoing the tradition of focusing on one big
extra in favour of covering a handful of little bitty ones, the
regular features that would otherwise be glossed over. Once
again, we ensure that every single aspect of the release is
discussed, and along the way we re-evaluate Hattie Hayridge's
return to the role of Holly, try to get to the bottom of why the
cast commentaries are so difficult to get through, and attempt to
comprehensively solve the issues of both war and racism.


Show notes


Contemporary reviews from Cappsy, Ian and Ian again.

Series IV Deleted Scenes commentary (2013)

TOS article (via The Unofficial Archive) on stock footage
in Red Dwarf

The Smeg Ups Rough Cut

The history of feral parakeets in Great Britain

Sexual assault of men played for laughs

Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff (and Bob Mortimer) perform
Dizzy on Top of the Pops

Can't Smeg Won't Smeg commentary (2011)

Pip Madeley's remastered trailers

The TV watershed was introduced in 1964, just twenty odd
years earlier than we guessed during the discussion