February 29, 1988 – theLogBook.com Episode Guides

Red Dwarf Season 01

Balance Of Power

By theLogBook.com
February 29, 1988

Current Pecking Order: Lister tires of Rimmer’s plan to catalog all the irradiated haggises aboard Red Dwarf and decides instead to take the day off. Lister complains to Holly that instead of Rimmer, the hologram of Kristine Kochanski, a navigator who Lister had a crush on, should have been brought back. Lister goes to Rimmer with the very attractive proposition that Rimmer could be shut down for a while so Lister can spend time with Kochanski. (It’s attractive for Lister, anyway.) Rimmer naturally refuses, so Lister resorts to desperate measures to take a computer course and become the ship’s chef, therefore outranking Rimmer. Holly tries once more to dissuade Rimmer from insulting him by replacing one of Rimmer’s holographic arms with that of Olaf Petersen, a dimwitted Dane and old friend of Lister’s. Rimmer is also getting a little desperate, and so he tries to get Lister to give up the chef’s exam by walking in the guise of Kochanski’s hologram. Even that backfires when Lister sees through Rimmer – well, more so than usual, anyway!

written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
directed by Ed Bye
music by Howard Goodall

Guest Cast: Rupert Bates (Trout a la Creme/Chef), Paul Bradley (Chen), David Gillespie (Selby), Mark Williams (Petersen), C.P. Grogan (Kochanski)

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6th Doctor Doctor Who The Audio Dramas

The Fourth Wall

By theLogBook.com
February 29, 2012

Flip is somewhat startled to find that, with all of time and space to roam, the Doctor is occasionally satisfied with watching a cricket match on a device that can receive signals from any place in any era. But something interferes with the signal, and then Flip disappears from the TARDIS, both very much to the Doctor’s alarm. Flip finds herself trying to save a woman from an alien creature, but the alien seems indifferent to Flip’s presence. The only thing that gets the alien’s attention is the arrival of a gun-toting, punch-throwing hero, complete with heroic music. The TARDIS lands on a planet where an action-packed new adventure series, Laser, chronicles its hero’s exploits in real time thanks to its cast being locked away in a pocket dimension with very real alien dangers… but somehow Flip has wound up being transported into this “live set”, and her attempts to simply survive are not part of the script. Also not part of the script is the arrival of aggressive aliens, a very real invasion attempt that the Doctor must try to thwart.

written by John Dorney
directed by Nicholas Briggs
music by Jamie Robertson

Cast: Colin Baker (The Doctor), Lisa Greenwood (Flip Jackson), Julian Wadham (Augustus Scullop), Yasmin Bannerman (Dr. Helen Shepherd), Hywel Morgan (Nick Kenton / Jack Laser), Martin Hutson (Matthew Howland / Lord Krarn), Tilly Gaunt (Olivia Sayle / Jancey), Kim Wall (Chimbly / Head Warmonger), Henry Devas (Junior / Warmonger)

Notes: The Time-Space Visualizer was introduced in The Chase in 1964; though it has yet to reappear on TV, the Doctor has put the Visualizer to use again in Big Finish lore (Relative Dimensions), in the novels (“The Eye Of The Giant”), and even in computer games (City Of The Daleks).