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