Audio problem: When the high Lister plays the harp, his fingers are out of sync to what is being played. (00:11:30)
Quarantine - S5-E4
Visible crew/equipment: When Lister wipes down the biohazard cabinet, a boom mic can be seen in the top right of the screen. Also, just before the camera moves past the pillar, the entire microphone and arm can be glimpsed. (00:05:00)
Continuity mistake: Just after The Inquisitor is frozen when Lister and Kryten switch gauntlets, the glove gets onto Kryten's hand in one camera cut. (00:24:30)
Suggested correction: He's holding the gauntlet in his hand, but the angle of the camera makes it appear that he's wearing it.
Continuity mistake: When The Inquisitor jumps Kryten from behind, Kryten's arm changes positions between cuts. (00:14:05)
The Last Day - S3-E6
Revealing mistake: You can tell Robert Llewellyn is reading his lines when Kryten receives the computer chip. He is looking much lower than the chip in his hand and it was obviously quite a complicated piece of dialogue to remember. (00:12:35)
Stasis Leak - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: 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. (00:20:35)
Continuity mistake: 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. (00:10:00)
Quarantine - S5-E4
Revealing mistake: As pointed out by Danny John Jules on the DVD Commentary, during the 'Feckles, Heckles, Hackles, Schmeckles' argument, Cat pushes his face right against Kryten's, leaving a brown makeup smear on Kryten's forehead. The mark is gone in the next shot. (00:19:45)
Continuity mistake: When Rimmer walks down the corridor, his hair is a mess. When he enters the medi-bay it is tidy. (00:25:25)
Revealing mistake: The spike that kills Pete Tranter's sister is visible before she reacts to it, just below her elbow. (00:21:20)
Other mistake: Kryten places Rimmer's light bee on the floor, then begins the process of reinitialising him. As the process finishes and Rimmer looks at Lister (who looks away), the light bee, which should be hovering within his torso projecting his image, is still visible on the floor between his feet. (00:06:00)
Revealing mistake: 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. (00:20:20)
Other mistake: Unfortunately the whole basis of the show is one big factual error. Throughout the series we see that Red Dwarf sustains damage from collisions, explosions, and so on. Most important of all, the rocket engine nozzle - surely made from the strongest materials available - has been punctured by some kind of impact. The systems require constant maintenance by humans (painting, repairs, etc), so skutters are not enough by themselves. So, we know that Red Dwarf is not made of some sort of fictional, indestructible materials, it is made of the kind of metals, plastics and other construction materials we build space shuttles and the like out of nowadays. So, after three thousand - never mind three million! - years the whole ship would be a clump of useless, corroded junk. The rubber and plastics in seals, electronic components and furniture would have crumbled to powder. The electronics themselves would have failed after a few hundred years at most. Metals in contact with liquids in pipes or reservoirs would have oxidized, and even the oxygen in the air would have been corrosive after that amount of time. Red Dwarf is not immune from the effects of long term decay and deterioration - if it were when Lister was released from stasis he would have found rooms full of relatively intact dead bodies instead of piles of crumbled dust. After three million years in space Red Dwarf would have been a pile of scrap, fatal to anyone going near it; subject to slow, subtle but constant radioactivity in space, after three million years it would be hotter than the inside of a working reactor.
Suggested correction: We don't have enough detail on what the ship is made out of. It taking damage doesn't mean it's made from current materials; it could use new materials with unknown properties. Eg, when the polymorph goes through a metal pipe, the tap distorts then reshapes. Seemingly impossible, but it happens. Rubber and plastics may not pulverize. Metals could be oxidation resistant. Advanced filtration might keep air fresh indefinitely. Technology that we can't imagine today keeps everything working and safe.
Continuity mistake: When Lister claims his 'prize' the king's hands are on his lap. In the next shot his right hand is clutching the helmet. (00:09:05)
Continuity mistake: When the Cat is kissing the photo of the mermaid, in the next shot the photo has disappeared. (00:24:50)
