And that sounded fine, from being on the outside, but then it wasn’t really a grey submarine look, it was a grey, kind of wooden TV set look.ĬHRIS BARRIE: Series 3 in all areas, there was a big lift, you know, in all departments.ĭOUG NAYLOR: Mel wasn’t available for those early series, and then he became available for Series 3, so Rob and I were very enthusiastic for getting him on board, and we had a long talk with him at the beginning, and we talked about our influences being Alien, and he took that on board, and seemed to have a plan where with no money, he could give us a look which was incredibly more on-screen than anything we’d had so far. We were aware of some of the directions which had been given for the sets for the first series, which was Ed wanted it to be a grey submarine look. My memory of Series 1 and 2 is very much black and white, cos there was very little colour, you know?ĭOUG NAYLOR: We wanted to give it a different look, and we were in a different position, we weren’t so much bystanders. Everything was like ocean grey, military grey. We were very unhappy with the sets, the painting of the sets. On the All Change documentary on the Series III Red Dwarf DVD, we get the gist of said argument:ĬRAIG CHARLES: We knew a lot of things had to change. It concerns an endless argument about those first two series of Dwarf: about the transition between Paul Montague, the first production designer for the show, and his replacement Mel Bibby. It’s an answer buried in Red Dwarf fanlore, I admit. After all, what is that article, but the most pointless list in the world? But I’m not too terrible these days.Īnd yet, when I publish things like this piece of nonsense, on the various ways a faintly obscure Red Dwarf set was reused, the spectre of that NOTBBC thread hangs over me.
Oh, there are people who do a much better job than me. Over the years, I feel like I’ve got better at that aforementioned “talking about a show properly” business. And it maybe had a little more truth to it than I cared to admit. And that most of these things were done because people enjoyed the list creation itself, and all the mental tics which go along with that, rather than actually talking about a show properly.
It was a rather sharp remark about how fandom, in its various forms, often seemed more interested in making lists of things, instead of actually analysing the show they were a fan of. But I remember well enough the point of it. Nor can I find the forum post in question. Many, many years ago, on a forum known as NOTBBC, somebody said something which caused me a fair amount of anguish.
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