Pop Quiz - Somewhere between 1988 and 1994 Craig Charles hosted a show, where each week he would tell a different Sci-Fi (I think) story, only I was under 10 so could remember watching a bit of it and he was sat in this cool chair, but was very RD esc...
I had to go to karate on those nights so had to miss the last 15 minutes of every episode.
I was gutted because they were ace. Or I remember they were better because I was little and RD was god to me.
Sorry - little off topic but its been killing me.
Also I agree with the lack of canned laughter... or is canned where its recored seperately like S8? Live was better. Warmer. Slugier etc. When they had to do take after take you could hear the audience laughing at the mistakes, and that time they didn't have a script so Grant was litterly typing it on the screen behind the character to be read out, a marvellous direction of direction! Live audiences rock. anything past S5 though was too clean. RD is about being the last ever human in existance being a farking bum. Its dirty and poorly, yet ingenious stapled and glued together with toilet rolls and scraps from the local uni's scrap bit in the computer sciences department (a gold mine to this day), like the Tracy Islands 'Here's one I made earlier' How-To on Blue Peter. I made the hell out of that island and it was ace.
New RD is too well produced and shiny. FACT.
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