Dream bits

[avevale_intelligencer]

Sometimes when you try to remember a dream it's hard to sort out what's dream and what's you adding bits on afterwards.

I'm fairly sure I've dreamed at least twice now about a comedy series set in space and starring, among others, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden. Garden's original role had been that of the first officer, whose name may or may not have been Rame: that was certainly the name of the series of robot replicas the computer kept providing, which had to be dumped either back on Earth or anywhere they could get to because they were so annoying and useless. The appearance of yet another Rame unit was one of the running gags in later episodes.

B-T and Garden were older than they were in The Goodies (though Tim still did just as many speeded-up slapstick sequences) and the main set was, I think, a building cast adrift in space rather than a purpose-built ship. And that's about as much as I can remember as being genuinely dream.

Oh, one not very funny gag, involving the first Rame unit dumped on Earth, who's bought a car he doesn't like:

TIM: Why don't you like it?
RAME: Two reasons. [Reason] and [reason].
TIM: That must be very embarrassing.
RAME: (annoyed) Oh, God, now that's three reasons!

My subconscious? Can't do comedy.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I want to watch it that series! I did giggle at that snippet, perhaps your subconscious is playing to my sense of comedy rather than to yours (it hasn't done its market research properly!).

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that this may be a memory of Astronauts (which I now must go and look up on IMDB), a ITV comedy series which ran opposite the last and abhominable season of Blake's Seven. Most memorable sequence was when they taught their American flight controller how to read the football results.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Was right.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081828/

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Well. Were right in that it existed. Were differently right in that I'd never seen, or heard of, either it or the alleged-by-IMDB remake which had a different creator and writer. I would remember. I remember Don Quick. So a memory of it is sadly not on the cards. Psychic vision, possibly, but I think my subconscious was just making stuff up.

It also seems to run a little short, according to IMDB: 6 episodes totalling thirteen minutes. Hardly surprising I missed it... :)

[inamac.livejournal.com]

For once imdb is wrong then - they were definitely 30 minute episodes. (And a great alternative to B7 Season 4 - though what posessed ITV to run it then is a complete mystery).

Come Back Mrs Noah used a lot of the same jokes (but in a different order).

[pink-sweater-uk.livejournal.com]

Blimey! You remember The Adventures Of Don Quick? I was probably about 7 at the time it aired, and have only very sketchy memories (mainly centred around the episode where Quick and Czopanser meet the Greek deities on some planet or other, and the Immortals casually amuse themselves with such antics as beheading Czopanser and then "gluing" him back together. This was before my complete teenage infatuation (to be polite) for Madeline Smith, which may explain why I tragically can't recall the episode in which she prominently featured...

Great fun. A pity that it's apparently another "Missing - Presumed Wiped" casualty.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

[NODS NODS] I had the first ep. of that on tape, for a while.

The three astronauts are strapped down in the command module as the rocket is about to take off. One of them doesn't say much, but the other two...

Her: Blast!
Him: What is it?
Her: I need the loo.
Him: We're thirty seconds from take-off! You'll just have to hold it.
Her: Hold it? I can't even *reach* it!

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