Shipwrecked & Comatose: A Red Dwarf Podcast
Jul 9, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 10 segments
Welcome to SHIPWRECKED & COMATOSE, an in-depth podcast dedicated to the classic BBC science-fiction sitcom, Red Dwarf. After finishing out coverage of The Promised Land last year, we're nearly out of…
Matt LathamHostMark AdamsHostCarl BryanHost
Yes, which was done in the... which was broadcast in 1989 as part of a series that I completely forgot because I disregarded it.
The fact that I just carried on watching for the rest of the series might suggest my feelings about the pilot that we'll focus on just for this episode then.
I'm assuming, like, a bunch of one-offs from a bunch of, like, the rising alternative comedians that were coming up at the time.
So you had pretty much the, like, your Lexi Sayles, your Rick Mayles, your Adrian Edmontons, and your Ben Elton as well, doing the writing.
So there was, and pretty much towards the end of the decade, there was a very kind of interesting kind of push where I think the BBC or people just commissioning kind of these things just to be different.
So you had the kind of these late 70s, early 80s, late 70s kind of men's working clubs kind of comedy, which... probably hasn't aged as well as I think people might expect and then we've got the kind of like almost post-punk or punk aspect of comedy which is kind of a rebellion against that where rather than just attacking attacking like everyone else it was more or less just being as weird as completely possible so then we ended up having things like the young ones and eventually leading on to bottom and the comic strip and everything and i think part and i think part of the and part of the experimentation that came from that came i say the comic asides including no one love it uh with the i love it pilot now uh Which is basically a Norman Lovett playing himself, but as an inventor, in a house which features a talking dog, a talking picture of a horse, and a talking spider, and a kind of like serial lawyer neighbour called Darren.
It's a bizarre thing that this was clearly a pilot, and it was funny, but it took four years for them to decide to make a series.
But I also think this stuns alone, so I'm looking forward to seeing the series, but I'm not necessarily...
Yes, which was done in the... which was broadcast in 1989 as part of a series that I completely forgot because I disregarded it.
The fact that I just carried on watching for the rest of the series might suggest my feelings about the pilot that we'll focus on just for this episode then.
I'm assuming, like, a bunch of one-offs from a bunch of, like, the rising alternative comedians that were coming up at the time.
So you had pretty much the, like, your Lexi Sayles, your Rick Mayles, your Adrian Edmontons, and your Ben Elton as well, doing the writing.
So there was, and pretty much towards the end of the decade, there was a very kind of interesting kind of push where I think the BBC or people just commissioning kind of these things just to be different.
So you had the kind of these late 70s, early 80s, late 70s kind of men's working clubs kind of comedy, which... probably hasn't aged as well as I think people might expect and then we've got the kind of like almost post-punk or punk aspect of comedy which is kind of a rebellion against that where rather than just attacking attacking like everyone else it was more or less just being as weird as completely possible so then we ended up having things like the young ones and eventually leading on to bottom and the comic strip and everything and i think part and i think part of the and part of the experimentation that came from that came i say the comic asides including no one love it uh with the i love it pilot now uh Which is basically a Norman Lovett playing himself, but as an inventor, in a house which features a talking dog, a talking picture of a horse, and a talking spider, and a kind of like serial lawyer neighbour called Darren.
It's a bizarre thing that this was clearly a pilot, and it was funny, but it took four years for them to decide to make a series.
But I also think this stuns alone, so I'm looking forward to seeing the series, but I'm not necessarily...
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