Red Dwarf (1988) - 693 mistakes in entire show

Deliberate "mistake": In the first few series, it is suggested Lister and Kochanski barely know each other. In 'Balance of Power' Holly says that Lister has only ever spoken 173 words to her. However, by series 4 Kochanski is referred to as Lister's ex-girlfriend with whom he shared a relationship. In the series 4 documentary, Doug Naylor explains that Lister's attitude towards Kochanski was imature in the first series which is why they changed his back story from wanting to be with Kochanski to actually having been with her by series 4.

Continuity: The time that the events involving the crew of Red Dwarf keeps changing throughout the series. At various times, references are made to the date, which is stated as being in the 21st, 22nd or 23rd centuries. Examples: In 'Stasis Leak', the date reference is stated as being 2077 (21st century). But in 'Ouroboros', the date is stated as being 26th November 2155 (22nd century). Also in 'DNA', Lister says he is an enlightened 23rd century guy.

Visible crew/equipment: In the first episode, 'The End' when Lister is telling his door to lock so he can get his cat out you can see the hand of a member of the crew pushing the door shut (look out the window).

Continuity: In George's memorial service, the extras are totally different in the shots from George's point of view to the shots from the back of the room. Look for the woman with brunette hair and orange overalls - she's there in the forward shots but missing in the reverses. The chairs, tables, props, costumes and character placements are all completely discontinuous.

Continuity: When Lister and Rimmer see Cat just after Holly explains how he evolved, Rimmer runs at Cat screaming before he passes through him and we hear a crash off screen to indicate Rimmer has just run in to something. He is a hologram and is not solid, so no sound should be heard. [The original version did not have this mistake. The sound effect was added for the now defunct Remastered series.]

Continuity: At the start of the 'Welcome Back George McIntyre' reception scene, Lister, Chen and Selby are throwing things at Rimmer, then Rimmer looks around. In the next shot, Lister and Chen are looking round to their left, Selby is stabbing between his fingers, Rimmer is now looking straight forwards and Petersen has appeared from nowhere.

Continuity: When George McIntye finishes his speech, he is standing. When the camera cuts back, he is sitting down.

Continuity: When Rimmer leaves for his exam, the table in the room only has an ashtray on it. Moments later, when Lister locks the door, a magazine, a can and a mug have appeared on the table.

Continuity: When Lister says his cigarette is a chicken, he looks at Rimmer. In the next shot he is looking at the cigarette again.

Continuity: Half way through the episode, the captain's office becomes covered by a wall.

Continuity: When Rimmer makes a palm print on the exam paper, the sheet moves from overlapping the second sheet to becoming separate on the desk. The pen also moves.

Continuity: When Lister asks for his door to lock, the position of his bedsheets changes between shot. If you look closely, the yellow line vanishes.

Revealing: When Lister passes his hand through Rimmer, you can see Lister's hand disappear when it is just above Rimmer's shoulder.

Continuity: After Rimmer makes his palm print on the exam paper, he stands up to salute. In the next shot, the hand print on the sheet has vanished and both pages are blank.

Continuity: When Petersen is trying to knock the coin from his head, the next shot shows Rimmer studying his arm. In the background, Petersen is seen with his right arm on the table, whereas in the wide shot it was behind his head.

Revealing: When Rimmer runs at the Cat and passes through him, the Cat fades as well.

Continuity: In the drive room when Lister says Rimmer is still a smeg head, one of his locks is over his right shoulder, then in the next shot, it has vanished.

Revealing: When Rimmer leans onto the table in the drive room, watch his tie. It should disappear with his arm but it remains visible.

Continuity: Just before Lister pours the milk for the Cat, there are two coats on the pipe by the bed. When the shot changes one of them has vanished.

Continuity: When Lister pours the milk for his cat, he looks at the cupboard where the cat is, yet in the next shot he is looking down at the floor.

Continuity: When Lister goes into stasis, Todd Hunter turns the wheel on the door to lock Lister in. In the next scene when Lister awakes from stasis, he just pushes the door open without turning the wheel to unlock it. Even if we are to assume that Holly would automatically open the door, the wheel should still turn to unlock the mechanism.

Visible crew/equipment: When Lister asks Todhunter if stasis will hurt, on the very far right of the screen you can see the reflection of what appears to be a camera being moved away from the shot.

Continuity: When the Captain is making his speech for George McIntyre, he takes his hand out of his pocket and touches his glass. In the next shot, his hand is back in his pocket again.

Continuity: When Lister takes the milk from his locker, keep an eye on his duvet. In the next shot when he pours the milk, it has moved and is hanging down from his bunk.

Continuity: When Rimmer is panicking about his exam, Lister wakes up. If you look closely he lifts his head twice from his pillow between shots. Also, his bedsheets change position most notable by his elbow.

Continuity: When Rimmer unclogs the chicken soup dispenser nozzle, he works on the back of the opening in the wall. When he orders chicken soup, the shelf drops down from above where Rimmer was working, thus above where the nozzle is located.

Continuity: When Rimmer leaves for his exam, he picks up a case from the seat by the window. When Lister locks the door and goes over to the cupboard, the case is still on the seat.

Continuity: Just before Lister goes into stasis, Rimmer is wheeled past him by the medic. As the shot changes the medic is stood right next to Lister yet in the next shot he is gone.

Visible crew/equipment: When Todhunter asks everyone to stand for the cutting of the cake, a red boom mic can be seen in the top left corner of the screen.

Revealing: When we first see the Cat just after he sees his shadow, the wall with 'storage locker' written on it wobbles.

Continuity: At the start of Rimmer's exam, the invigilator orders the students to "turn over their papers and start". Rimmer reads one side of the paper, then turns it over to read another question. The back of the paper should have been blank as otherwise there would be no point asking the students to keep the papers face down before reading the questions.

Continuity: When Rimmer leaves for his exam, his bedsheet is hanging over the edge of his bed. When the shot cuts back to Lister, it is not overhanging any more.

Continuity: When Lister gets his Cat out of the cupboard, one of his locks is hanging down in front of him chin. In the next shot it is gone.

Continuity: During the round of applause for George McIntyre, Lister claps above his head. In the next shot, he is clapping with his arms in front of him.

Continuity: When Rimmer and Lister leave their sleeping quarters, there are two pictures on the wall between the door and the window and a canister on the wall beside the beds. When they are next in the room the items are gone, and at the end of the episode they have all returned.

Continuity: After Rimmer leaves for his exam, a second coat appears to the right of the bed.

Continuity: In the very first episode, Lister runs his arm through Rimmer and he remains unchanged. Whenever anything passes throuh him in the rest of the series, he fades.

Continuity: When Lister sees the future echo in the drive room, Rimmer points when he says 'Shut up.' However when the scene plays out again, Rimmer's arms stay down by his sides.

Audio problem: In Rimmer's future echo he says, "You're space crazy", but in the real conversation with Lister, he actually says, "You are space crazy".

Revealing: In the drive room when Lister kicks the vending machine after he finds out he's going to die, you can see the shadow of the machine wobbling as if it were lightweight.

Visible crew/equipment: When talkie toaster says 'light speed' a crew member can be seen in its reflection wearing a yellow t-shirt and jeans.

Visible crew/equipment: Just after Lister hits the toaster, a pair of legs can be seen moving in it's reflection a moment before the scene ends.

Continuity: When the Cat's future echo says, "I think I lost my tooth," he is at the end of the corridoor. When the present Cat say it, he is just leaving the sleeping quarters.

Continuity: Just before Lister cuts himself shaving, he is shaving away from himself. The camera changes and he is shaving in the oposite direction.

Continuity: Both Rimmer and Lister go through a door on the right hand side of the captain's office which wasn't there in the previous episode.

Continuity: When Holly gives Rimmer a new uniform, during the switch, Holly can be seen to jolt on his screen in the background.

Continuity: The sign above the stasis booth in this episode is different than what it was in the previous episode, "The End".

Continuity: When Lister is fixing his robot goldfish, he picks it up with his right hand, then after the camera cuts, he puts it back into the tank with his left hand.

Visible crew/equipment: When talkie toaster asks if anyone wants toast, a crew member can be seen moving in the reflection.

Visible crew/equipment: Just before Rimmer sends his 'Internal Memo' Lister is standing next to his fish tank in the sleeping quarters. In the relection of the glass you can see pages being looked through by a member of the crew.

Continuity: When Lister cuts himself shaving he moves his locks behind his back, then in the next shot, they are over his shoulder again.

Continuity: The cuts on Lister's robot goldfish disappear when he throws it back into the tank after fixing it.

Revealing: When Holly gives Rimmer a new haircut, Rimmer salutes and touches his hair with his hand. Surely he would have noticed his hair has become much longer, especially after he asked for a crew cut.

Continuity: When Lister rides his bike in the first scene, there is a Union Jack just behind his seat. When he stops, a US flag has appeared below it.

Continuity: At the end of the episode, when the future Lister and the babies appear, Rimmer has his arms folded. In the next shot, Rimmer's hands are on his hips. Also, Lister's locks change positions.

Continuity: When Lister and Rimmer are talking in their bunks, Lister says 'I've always been crazy about her'. He is looking to his right with his arm in the air, yet in the next shot he is looking down at the floor.

Continuity: Lister's rolling pin disappears from the exam table when he drops the bowl.

Continuity: When Lister first sees Kochanski his locks are on top of his left shoulder. In the next shot they are gone, then back again when he drops the bowl.

Visible crew/equipment: When Lister is speaking to Kochanski and realises it is actually Rimmer, Kochanski says "it's Kochanski's body, it's Kochanski's voice" and a red boom mic is visible at the top of the screen.

Visible crew/equipment: When Lister washes his face in his sleeping quarters, Rimmer is seen off set in the reflection in the fish tank walking past. You can see his uniform and can just make out the H on his forehead.

Revealing: When Lister leaves for his exam, he walks through Rimmer. As he does, both Rimmer and Lister become transparent when it should have just been Rimmer.

Continuity: When Lister is changing near the start of the episode, there are no stickers on his locker. When he leaves the room, they appear.

Revealing: The cigarette butts that Lister supposedly tips out of his lager can were obviously in between his hand and the can, and not in the can at all.

Revealing: When the Cat is pushing the trolly of cigarettes, Rimmer walks past him and bangs his arm against it.

Continuity: The food dispenser in the drive room is now in the place that the door to the Captain's office was in the previous episodes.

Continuity: After Rimmer walks out of Lister's exam at the end of the episode, you can see he walks into the sleeping quarters, yet in the next shot he is walking down a corridor.

Visible crew/equipment: In the flashback scene of Lister and his mates, just after Lister says about brains in jars, a yellow boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen.

Continuity: During Lister's exam, he takes the dough and puts it into the bowl while talking to Kochanski. When she turns into Rimmer, Lister is still rolling the dough and it is not in the bowl.

Other: Rimmer's badge of rank is missing from his short sleeved uniform. All other uniforms in the series have the badge.

Revealing: When the cat priest dies on the bed, watch him move his foot so Lister can sit on the edge.

Visible crew/equipment: When talkie Toaster says, 'I toast, therefore I am.', you can see the legs of a crew member moving in the reflection of the toaster.

Continuity: Watch the cat priest's black hand. It starts off normal, then it turns crusty and white. Just before he dies, his hand is normal again.

Revealing: When Rimmer wakes Lister up, as he stands up you can see he moves Lister's duvet with his shoulder, which he can't do, being a hologram.

Continuity: When Rimmer first realises that his files are unflattering, the screen first from the right on the computer bank shows writing. But a change of view later, Holly is on the same screen. He does not have time to move.

Continuity: After Rimmer and Lister argue about the pod, Rimmer walks off and Lister steps into the observation room. As Lister steps in, his locks are over his left shoulder, then in the next shot they are over his right shoulder.

Other: In the picture of the cat wars between the Red Hats and the Blue Hats, the hats are orange instead of blue.

Continuity: When Rimmer says he wants the 'aliens' to give him a real body, his arms are outstretched. In the next shot they are folded.

Continuity: When the cat priest dies, the hat he is wearing falls onto the bed above his head. When the shot changes the hat is gone.

Continuity: When the Cat leaves Lister's quarters after showing him the cat book, one of Lister's locks is hanging over his right shoulder. In the next shot it is gone.

Visible crew/equipment: When Rimmer says there was nothing wrong with his casual clothes, a boom mic shadow can be seen moving at the top of the screen.

Continuity: When Lister is in the Medi-bay, he has his duvet on his lap. The angle changes and he has the duvet over his shoulders.

Continuity: When Lister is watching the film at the start of the episode, he says 'would you let me watch the film' to Holly. His arm is gesturing to Holly, but in the next shot he is picking up chips from his lap.

Revealing: After Lister faints, you can see him smirk when the cat sings 'S-E-X, I think I've found it!'

Revealing: When Rimmer gets into bed, near the start of the episode, you can see that he brushes past Lister's blanket hanging down and slightly moves it. He should not have been able to do this as he is a hologram, it should have passed through him.

Continuity: In the captain's office, the words 'Medical bay' have been painted on the wall. This was near the end of the episode and can be seen over Rimmer's shoulder while they are talking in the drive room. The set was obviously doubled with the medical bay, as the captain's office is not used in this episode.

Visible crew/equipment: In the medi-bay, when Rimmer says, "How about an anal reading?" a yellow microphone appears above his head. (You can see this if you watch the dvd on your pc, as some tv's can cut off the edge of the picture).

Continuity: At the start of the episode, when Lister is watching the film, keep an eye on his milkshake. One moment the glass is on the table, then when the camera cuts, he's drinking from it.

Revealing: Rimmer asks Confidence and Lister "Where's Paranoia?", when Confidence replies "I dont know. Is it some place near Uruguay?" Lister is mouthing his lines.

Visible crew/equipment: When the skutters try to move Lister in the Medi-bay, you can see the cable which pulls Lister's chair in the bottom right of the screen.

Continuity: When confidence explodes outside the ship, a helmet appears on the walkway which was not there earlier in the scene.

Continuity: When the Cat visits Lister, Lister puts his arm down on the bed, but in the next shot he is leaning on his hand.

Continuity: When Lister and Confidence go outside the ship, they do a little dance and both put their right feet forwards. In the next shot, their left feet are forward as they continue the dance.

Continuity: When Lister and the Cat are talking to the original Rimmer in the cinema, the new Rimmer enters and argues with the original. The original Rimmer makes hand puppets, while the new Rimmer sits at the front. When Lister does the ippy-dippy, the Rimmers have swapped places. The new Rimmer says that he was there first, without complaint from the original.

Continuity: When Rimmer enters the cinema, Lister looks round at him and holds his hand up to his mouth. In the next shot, his hand is lowered and the straw is in his mouth.

Continuity: When Lister leaves the Rimmer's quarters after laughing at the newspaper cuttings, one shot Rimmer has his arms folder and the other has his hands on his hips. In the next shot they have swapped places.

Continuity: When Lister takes the painting into the two Rimmer's quarters, one of his locks is over his left shoulder. In the next shot it is behind his back.

Continuity: When the Cat goes into Lister's quarters on skates, the way the scutter is positioned changes between shots.

Continuity: At the start of the episode, when Lister says about Rimmer's toe nail clippings, one of Lister's locks is in front of his left shoulder. In the next shot it is gone.

Continuity: When Lister tips his socks onto the floor, he throws the bin behind him, near the bunkbeds. But when he picks them up again, the bin has moved over in front and to the right of him.

Other: When Lister reads Rimmer's diary, he reads the first entry, then his aunt's birthday in July and then the entry for Gazpacho Soup Day in November. Each time he looks for the next entry he flicks though the pages, yet every time he reads, it is from the start of the diary.

Continuity: When we see Rimmer's Death video, the atomic blast pushes him into the Captain's office. However, in "The End," Holly indicates that the two piles of dust next to each other in the centre of the drive room are Captain Hollister and Rimmer.

Continuity: When Rimmer tells Lister he will never know why gazpacho soup were his last words, his arms are by his side. In the next shot his arms are folded.

Continuity: When Holly asks about Rimmer's swimming certificates, the scutter next to Lister moves from his side to behind him in one cut, and then back again.

Continuity: When the scutter brings Lister the popcorn, his hands are together. In the next shot they are apart.

Revealing: In the sleeping quarters when the cat is courting, he says 'If I believed that for one minute, I'd go crazy'. You can see Lister is mouthing the line.

Revealing: When the two Rimmers are exercising, there are no stars visible out of their window.

Revealing: When Lister goes into Rimmer's new room, there is a slight glitch with the split screen. When Lister is laughing at Rimmer's newspaper headlines on the door, the camera changes and the first frame only has Lister and Rimmer with the scutters. In the next frame the second Rimmer appears and the scutter on the right has moved.

Continuity: Lister and Rimmer's bunk room looks exactly the same in the flashback scenes during this series as it does in the present time. In the first series it looked completely different, so surely the look should have changed slightly for the flashback scenes?

Continuity: When Rimmer says to the skeletons to put their hands up if they are alive, Kryten's arms are by his side. In the next shot he is gesturing with his arms outstretched.

Deliberate "mistake": In the episode of 'Androids' which Kryten is watching, a microphone is seen, then quickly pulled out of shot.

Visible crew/equipment: On Blue Midget, when Rimmer takes off his hat, the shadow of a boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen.

Revealing: When Lister pulls the Cat away from the mirror, the wall wobbles.

Continuity: When Lister is changing, he throws his spray can into the air. The camera changes angles and the can does not land.

Visible crew/equipment: When the crew are in their sleeping quarters, and Rimmer is talking to the others, a blue boom mic can be seen hovering over his head (you can see this if you watch the dvd on your pc, as some tv's can cut off the edge of the picture)

Continuity: When Kryten shows the crew information of the survivors on board the Nova 5, Tracey Johns is listed as the shortest. In the group photo she is the tallest of the three.

Revealing: When Kryten is washing the floor, it is clear that there is no water in the bowl.

Continuity: When Rimmer lies and says he is a space adventurer, Lister leans towards him and his locks are behind his back. In the next shot one lock is over his right shoulder.

Revealing: When the crew board the Nova 5, Rimmer's shoulder brushes against a hanging plant which moves very slightly. As he is a hologram this would be impossible.

Visible crew/equipment: Just before Lister sprays his sock, a blue boom mic can be seen at the top of the screen by the large pipe.

Visible crew/equipment: When Lister downs his pint of wine, the shadow of a boom mic can be seen on the top left of the screen.

Continuity: When Rimmer is standing on the beach and conjures up the green car you can see the wheels are partly in the sand. When he then gets into the car, tyre tracks are visible behind it. When he starts driving off, the tyre marks are now gone.

Visible crew/equipment: When Rimmer and his seven kids get out of the car, three crew members and a white production truck are visible in the reflection.

Continuity: When the Cat and Lister are playing golf, they stop next to a bed with Marilyn Monroe sitting on it. When the camera angle changes, they begin walking from the other side of the bed. Also Marilyn Monroe is now kneeling.

Continuity: When the bike appears on the beach, the front tyre is above the level of sand. In the next shot it has sunk by about an inch.

Continuity: When Lister puts his Better Than Life helmet on, the cable is hanging over his right shoulder. In the next shot it is hanging down over his left shoulder.

Continuity: When the Cat is kissing the photo of the mermaid, in the next shot the photo has disappeared.

Continuity: The sand that lands on Rimmer's shoulder when Lister and the Cat drive away on the bike disappears in the next shot.

Continuity: As the crew enter the game, Lister pushes the door to the beach open. However in the next shot, the door is opening from the other side, i.e. Lister is pulling the door.

Visible crew/equipment: When the Cat licks Better Than Life's host, there is a shadow of a boom mic at the top of the screen on the wall.

Revealing: In the observation dome, the borders of the blue screen used to project the image of space behind Lister and Rimmer can be seen around the dome.

Revealing: In the observation dome, background stars are visible on Lister's hair and neck.

Continuity: When Lister and the Cat put their sunglasses on, Rimmer's tie changes between camera cuts from over his shoulder to neat and straight.

Visible crew/equipment: When Rimmer is getting in the car on the beach, you can see the cameraman's reflection on the side of it.

Revealing: When Lister and Rimmer are talking in the dome, the machine behind Rimmer keeps wobbling.

Other: The tax letter and Rimmer's mother's letter are both already opened before Lister takes the letters out. As there is no one else aboard Red Dwarf, the letters would not have been checked by anyone so they should still be sealed. Also, not all of the letters are already open, just the two that Rimmer receives.

Continuity: When Marilyn Monroe waves to the Cat on the beach, in the next shot her arms are by her side.

Revealing: When Holly is talking about his chess game, you can see his black clothing to the left of his chest, revealing he's hiding a body, and isn't just a computer generated floating head.

Revealing: When Rimmer and Lister are in the observation dome, background stars can be seen on Lister's locks and on the top of his forehead.

Revealing: The square bluescreen outline can be seen in the wide shot of the obervation dome scene.

Continuity: In 'Thanks For the Memory', both Lister and The Cat injure their left feet when they drop the gravestone; but The Cat is seen to be wearing a plaster cast on his RIGHT foot

Continuity: When Lister and the Cat first see Lisa Yates on the screen, their shoulders are together. In the next shot there is a wide gap between them.

Continuity: When Lister and the Cat are on the moon, their casts keep appearing then disappearing.

Continuity: When Rimmer is talking about Lisa Yates to Lister, his tie is undone. When it cuts to the black box camera, his tie is correctly tied.

Continuity: When Rimmer is talking about Yvonne McGruder, Lister is not wearing a hat. When we see the black box recording of the conversation, Lister is now wearing one.

Revealing: During filming of the this episode, Craig Charles was called away for the birth of his son, Jack, so production manager Mike Agnew stepped in. Although Lister is wearing a space suit at the time you can still tell which part is Mike thanks to a continuity error - Mike forgot to put on Lister's plaster cast.

Revealing: When Lister uploads his memories, the wide shot shows various videos of Rimmer in the background, but in the close up it shows a plain white screen.

Continuity: Just before Lister says 'I'm going to give him Lisa Yates' he is looking forwards. When the camera angle changes he is looking at the Cat.

Revealing: Holly's night cap is in front of the edges of his monitor. It should fade into the white border of his screen.

Revealing: When Lister and the Cat drop the gravestone and break their feet, you can see that it does not land anywhere near Lister's left foot.

Continuity: The second time we see the scene with Rimmer's head popping through the table, the line 'There, that wasn't too bad, was it?' is missed out.

Continuity: When the crew go through the stasis leak for the first time, the Cat walks through, then Rimmer waits before jumping through. When they appear on the other side, they fade in together.

Continuity: At the end of the episode when Lister is talking to Holly on his watch, Lister's red sleeve is in line with the watch, but as the camera cuts to show Holly, the sleeve is gone.

Revealing: Rimmer, Lister and the Cat are not visible in the mirror when the crew member finds them in the shower.

Continuity: When Rimmer puts his head through the table, the magazines change position next to his head.

Continuity: When Lister walks through the Stasis leak for the first time, his hands are up by his face and his locks are in front of his shoulders. In the next shot from the mirror, his arms are lowered and his locks are only over his right shoulder.

Revealing: When Rimmer hides under the table, he is not visible beneath the table when Lister and Rimmer walk in.

Continuity: The second time we see the hologramatic Rimmer pass Rimmer and Lister in the corridor, two other people have appeared walking past.

Continuity: When the Cat and Lister look at the wedding photo at the end of the epiosde, the way Lister is holding the photo changes between shots.

Continuity: When Rimmer is talking to the captain while he is dressed as a chicken, the blue bucket moves between camera cuts from being hung up on the large canister, to being on the floor next to Rimmer's bed.

Continuity: When Lister's double comes out of the bathroom, Lister's locks move from in front of his shoulders to behind his neck.

Continuity: When Lister's double says 'You don't look pleased to see me' his locks move from over his shoulder to down his back and they continue switching during the scene.

Continuity: When Lister first walks through the stasis leak, his locks are over his left shoulder, then in the bathroom they are over both shoulders.

Revealing: When Lister, the Cat and Rimmer are stood in the shower and the Cat keeps saying 'What is it?' he turns to Rimmer and brushes against his tie throughout the scene.

Continuity: In the hotel when the case moves past the Cat, the shot changes and the Cat has moved from the pink carpet to the blue carpet.

Continuity: When Lister is leaving the honeymoon suite, his locks move between shots.

Revealing: When the Cat gets jumped by the people in fancy dress, the red wall behind them wobbles.

Revealing: At the end of the episode when the future Lister closes the door on the Cat and Lister, you can see the partial editing out of Lister and the Cat as the door closes. As this happens, Lister and the Cat disappear before the door has passed them.

Continuity: When Lister puts his hand under his arm pit, his locks move from behind his back to over his right shoulder in one cut, and then back again.

Continuity: When the Cat attacks the 'dog' in the hotel, between shots it changes position as he jumps on it.

Continuity: At the end of the episode when the third Rimmer appears from inside the sink, the reflection of Lister on his bunk in the mirror shows he has a blanket over him. In the wide shot there is no blanket.

Continuity: When Petersen walks away from Lister with the cases, the two women follow him. In the next shot the women have swapped places.

Continuity: When Rimmer's legs walk in front of Holly's monitor, Lister puts his hand on top of the screen. In the next shot his hand is gone.

Revealing: When the ship is hit by a meteor, Rimmer is thrown onto the table. He should have fallen through it, as he is a hologram.

Revealing: Lister says that the tape of 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' must have got twisted. It is actually a cd they are listening to.

Continuity: When Rimmer askes Queeq what article 5 is, Queeq is facing slightly to the left. The camera angle changes and he is then facing straight forward.

Continuity: When Rimmer and the Skutter are playing draughts, the pieces change from brown squares to white squares during the game.

Revealing: When Holly challenges Queeg for Red Dwarf, the computer panel Lister is sitting on wobbles as he stands up.

Continuity: After the explosion in the hologram simulation suite, Holly's monitor suddenly appears at the other side of the room.

Audio problem: During the conversation in which Holly wants to prove he has an IQ of 6000 (while Lister and the Cat are scrubbing the floor), there is a brief moment where you can see the TV Holly is on (at an angle). You can hear sound coming from him, but his lips aren't moving.

Revealing: After the meteor hits the ship, none of the drafts pieces have moved at all, yet Lister was thrown from his bunk.

Continuity: In the hologram simulation suite, the amount of smoke changes from cut to cut throughout the scene.

Revealing: When the meteor hits the ship, everyone is thrown about except for the skutter, who does not move at all.

Revealing: After Rimmer becomes separated from his legs and Lister, the Cat and Holly leave, Holly's cable begins to be pulled but stops after Holly leaves the shot, yet Rimmer shouts after them to wait for him.

Continuity: At the end of the chess game, the layout of the pieces shows the first three moves of the game. As the game obviously had more moves than this, the chess board graphic was wrong.

Visible crew/equipment: A wire/string pulling along the baby Skutters behind the parent Skutter is visible in the episode

Revealing: When Lister and Rimmer first meet their femaile opposites, Lister takes a step back and brushes against Rimmer's hologramatic shirt.

Continuity: At the disco, when the Rimmers are seated at their table, the plant moves from in front of the lamp to behind it.

Continuity: When the Cat jumps up to grab the mirrorball, a comb appears in his hand from nowhere before disappearing again.

Continuity: When the Cat dances at the disco, he jumps up and grabs the mirror ball with both hands. In the next shot he is only holding it by one arm.

Continuity: In the quarters of the female versions of the crew, the newspaper clippings and certificates on the wall still have the name 'Arnold' on them, and not the female equivalent, as it was supposed to be.

Continuity: In the disco when Lister complains about the female Lister's attempts to impress him, his hair is in front of his left shoulder, then behind it.

Revealing: When Holly shows the crew the Holly Hop Drive, you can see the outline of his black clothes throughout the scene.

Continuity: When Lister and Rimmer talk to Holly at the disco, Lister's arm is on the table. When the camera angle changes, it is on his lap below the table.

Revealing: During the last scene of the episode, the Cat keeps brushing against Rimmer's hologramatic shirt.

Plot hole: Starbug 1 is abandoned on backwards Earth. But it still appears twice more in this series.

Plot hole: In the episode 'Backwards' most of the things that happen on 'Backwards Earth' are correct, except, of course, in reverse. But there is an exception: in the scene in the Cafe, when the waitress comes to 'dirty' the table, she tips a box of trash on the table. If you play this scene backwards, the trash leaps from the table into the box. Even on a 'backwards earth' I can't believe that trash spontaneously leaps about...

Continuity: At the start of "Backwards", there is a spoof "Star Wars" type caption, which spools up the screen very quickly. Too quickly to be read in fact...which may explain why few people have noticed that the last line of the caption "And now the Story Continuums..." is written TWICE

Continuity: When Kryten is doing his driving test, as soon as we see Rimmer & Kryten in the cockpit you can see the wire attached to Chris Barrie behind him, next to the aerial on his hat, going vertically out the top of the frame. When it comes to the actual ejector seat gag, put it in frame-advance and you will clearly see the wire again for a couple of frames. You can tell it's not the aerial because Chris is looking up at the time meaning the aerial on his hat would now br horizontal (and hidden by his head).

Visible crew/equipment: After leaving Starbug, the Cat says, "What's the matter?" There is a boom mic visible at the top right of the screen. (This may not be visible on some TVs).

Visible crew/equipment: When Kryten and Rimmer find the Nodnol sign, a large boom mic can be seen above their heads.

Revealing: Lister mouths the Cat's line, "Your gajungas will suddenly rise back into your body, and the next thing you know you're singing soprano in the school choir."

Revealing: At the end of the episode, the shot with the taxi has been reversed to show the number plate backwards. It has also changed everything else in the shot, most notably, the cat's outfit. In the next scene they have been flipped back to normal.

Plot hole: If everything goes backwards, shouldn't Kryten and Rimmer have got fired, done their job and then got hired? Rimmer & Kryten discovered that everything was backwards in the cafe earlier in the episode. At the club they did their act and then got fired. Put this 'forwards' and it becomes wrong.

Visible crew/equipment: When Kryten ejects Rimmer from Starbug, the cable lifting him up can be seen above him.