Pointed Response

Series VIII Chapters

24 February, 2006

Okay, look, this is the final time we all have to suffer through this. Right? Right. So sit still and take your medicine - these are the chapter points for the Series VIII DVD episodes, including the feature-length editions of Back in the Red and Pete. More news down the bottom.

Back in the Red - Part One Titles A Whole Tube Three Days Earlier Resurrected The Git Returns Feline Examination Help Me Escape Psyche Evaluation Credits

Back in the Red - Part Two Titles/Recap Super Salute Reclassified G.R.O.P.E. Toilet Stop Elevated Attraction The Captain's Table Reservoir Dorks Credits - To Be Continued

Back in the Red - Part Three Titles Engaged/Recap SMOOth Dancing Midgets Edited Escape Reality and Rimmer Reality Sucks Welcome to the Tank Credits - To Be Continued

Cassandra Titles Canaries The Mission Cassandra A Way Out Impervious Blind Drunk? Dance of Love Credits

Krytie TV Titles Prison Life Foamy Thoughts Shower Night Live Think of the Show Flours The Love Assassin The Verdict Credits

Pete - Part One Titles Captain's Office (I) Basketball Captain's Office (II) Wrong Number The Manny Celeste Captain's Office (III) Frozen Crew Credits - To Be Continued

Pete - Part Two Recap/Titles T-Rex Attack Cow Vindaloo Captain's Office (IV) Back in the Cells Archie Attacks Captain's Office (V) Captain's Office (VI) Credits - To Be Continued

Only The Good... Titles/SS Hermes Yellow Fever Rock, Rock, Rock Cell Inspection Hospitalised The Microbe Mirror Universe Decaying Dwarf Credits - The End...?

Back in the Red - Xtended Titles A Whole Tube Three Days Earlier Resurrected The Git Returns Feline Examination Help Me Escape Psyche Evaluation Engaged Super Salute Reclassified The Hearing

G.R.O.P.E. Toilet Stop Elevated Attraction The Captain's Table Reservoir Dorks SMOOth Dancing Midgets Edited Escape Reality and Rimmer Reality Sucks Welcome to the Tank Credits

Pete - Feature-Length Titles Captain's Office (I) Basketball Captain's Office (II) Wrong Number The Manny Celeste Captain's Office (III) Frozen Crew

T-Rex Attack Cow Vindaloo Captain's Office (IV) Back in the Cells Archie Attacks Captain's Office (V) Captain's Office (VI) Credits

The joy of chapter points, when done properly, is their ability to get you to where you want to go. You have to pick locations based on several criteria. There's importance of the scene, both to the plot and, more importantly, within the context of Dwarf history. 'Is this a famous scene?'

Then you have to consider duration and distance from previous and future chapter points. It's no good having two points all of 45 seconds apart. Finally, there's specific placement based on the audio of the scene - the authoring house favour a clear second of zero-dialogue at the start of each chapter in order that nobody miss anything due to the restrictions of the format.

Then, once in a while, you can also have a little fun. If you check out the Pete points you'll notice that we've located a chapter stop at the beginning of every captain's office scene. With a gag based on repetition - the walk down the corridor, the camera tracking left, Rimmer's salute, Lister's wave - it's rather cool to compare all six versions in quick succession.

Those chapters are named Captain's Office after the episode's working title. It's a jokey bit of self-referencing which we've always tried to include. Other favourite chapter names this time include 'Reservoir Dorks', 'Flours' and the excellent 'SMOOth' - which, as we all know, is "Smooth with a capital smoo".

It's worth reiterating that Back in the Red's chapters differ slightly between the regular episode versions and the feature-length edition. This, of course, is because the show has been Xtended to include ten minutes of additional scenes - the entire story, fused into one massive episode, runs for 1 hour 22 minutes.

We've dropped the lengthy recaps, extra titles and credits and included a few lost dialogue scenes - the best of which features Kryten, Cat, Kochanski and Lister before (and during) their hearing with the captain. (Kochanski, on learning that they don't serve wine in prison: "No wine at all? Isn't that against the Geneva convention?")

The Series VIII release is so achingly close now - March 27th, people. Pre-order now! And come back soon for a breakdown of those all-important deleted scenes.

More DVD Details will follow soon...

The upcoming Red Dwarf DVD releases are as follows:

Region	Location	Series	Date
2	UK/Europe	VII	OUT NOW!
1	America	VII	OUT NOW!
4	Australasia	VII	OUT NOW!
2	UK/Europe	VIII	March 27, 2006
1	America	VIII	May 2, 2006
4	Australasia	VIII	April 6, 2006