I’m guessing either the writers got sick of the “soft-light hologram” rule, or maybe the special effects were getting cost prohibitive. Either way, at least they found a solution with wacky potential.
Never seen it over here, I couldn't even try to watch that. Not after they made victor meldrew happy because American audiences don't connect with grumpy characters..and similar with Fawlty towers
Can't beleie i'm answerin a serious question about red dwarf but here goes. It's because he has learnt to break his programing. See the episode where Lister teaches him to lie? Tells him to call a banana an apple? He gradually breaks his programing and so can smack Rimmer one when occasion calls.
Wikipedia says the “Legion” episode of “Red Dwarf” originally aired on Oct. 14, 1993 and was the 32nd in the series history. The crew’s misadventure with MIMOSIAN anti-matter chopsticks is unrelated to KENny’s Auto Repair across the pond at 1802 Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond, VA 23224 even though Google Maps shows MIMOSA Street in close proximity and a fateful drive down the JDH occurred 2,066 days after the episode first aired. The barbeque joint likely gave a field day w/o AM chopsticks
RED DWARF “Legion”: unrelated to KENny’s Auto Repair at 1802 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Richmond, VA 23224, which Google Maps shows near COLUMBIA Street. “Red Dwarf” is about misadventures in outer space, but a real world misadventure in space exploration occurred a PALINdrome 1,331 days after the fateful drive down the JDH when NASA lost a 2nd orbiter and crew (including Rick Husband) after Space Shuttle COLUMBIA disintegrated over Texas 16 minutes from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 1, 2003
phantomhurricane666 They get around Kryten based continuity errors by having the recurring sub plot of him trying to break his programming with mixer results
