The Garbage Podcast

For the final time this series, we look back 25 years to the airing of the last episode of Series VI with our commentary for Out of Time. It’s an episode that marks not only the end of a series, but also the end of a distinct era of the show with it being the last televised episode Rob Grant would contribute to. Yet it’s also an episode that was largely made up at the last minute, with...

In this penultimate instalment of of our continuing celebration of Series VI’s 25th anniversary, we’re this week taking a look back at Rimmerworld. It’s perhaps the episode of the series that tends to be overlooked, which perhaps is partially due to to it’s similarity to ground the show has already covered previously. Exploring the psyche of the charecters is nothign enw for Red...

In this fourth installment of our continuing celebration of Series VI’s 25th anniversary, we look back at Emohawk: Polymorph II by keeping theme with the episode by revisiting some popular elements from previous podcasts. By which we mean we bollock on about corridors again. It’s an episode of Red Dwarf that serves as three sequels in one, but one that is also two very separate halves. It al...

In this edition of our continuing celebration of Series VI’s 25th anniversary, we take a break from using AR for sex to load up a new podcast and discuss Gunmen of The Apocalypse using our specail skill; talking drivelling bollocks about Red Dwarf. It’s the episode that one the Emmy, had a making of book about it and was chosen to close out Red Dwarf night in 1997. It may not largely be cons...

It’s been 25 years today since Legion first aired, and we’re marking the occasion with the latest edition of our Series VI anniversary commentaries. It’s perhaps one of the best examples of the sixth series, and one that has some of the show’s most quotable lines in the lightbulb gag. In a great example of a vilan of the week with a strong central concept, it manages to find a fresh ta...

We’ve been offline for a while while our team has variously dealt with such life altering events as new homes, new children and new underwear. But with 2018 marking the silver anniversary of Red Dwarf VI, we’re naturally back with a brand new series of Garbage Podcasts to the occasion, starting this week with Psirens which aired 25 years ago today. As the starting point for this series...

With today being the 30th anniversary of Red Dwarf, how best to mark the occasion than to go back and look at the first episode? Unfortunatly, we already did a commentary for that for the 25th anniversary. So rather than repeat ourselves, we’ve instead looked to Red Dwarf USA. Featuring what is essentially a remake of The End, it’s a project that is notorious for having been unsuccessf...

In case it has passed your attention, today marks 30 years since Red Dwarf first aired. Given we’ve already celebrated the first episode on the podcast for the 25th anniversary, we’re instead joining in the festivities in a slightly different way this time around. So in the first of two podcasts to be released today, we look to the present day and take look back over the most recent se...

It may have finished as quickly as it started, but we’re already at the end of Red Dwarf XII. But while it may be the last of the series, Skipper has proved to be an episode worth waiting for. It’s a show of two halves, but when the first half revolves around a strong joke idea and the second revolves around some hugely fan pleasing moments, what’s not to love? Is Lister quite br...

With the penultimate edition of Red Dwarf XII, we see a plot first teased in the run up to Series X finally realised in M-Corp. But while we knew the rough plot idea, what we didn’t know was that like a David Bowie live show circa 1973, it was going to involve a lot of mime. Yet this obvious area of comedy to work in only makes up a small part of the densely packed epiosde. With some dark th...

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What a difference a week makes, as the fourth episode of Red Dwarf XII delivers what may well be the most solid espisode of the Dave era so far. Election epiosdes aren’t a new concept for sitcoms, but the way that it is handeled in this episode plays to the strengths of the Red Dwarf universe, while also presenting it in a way that we may never have expected to see before. Doe the ship have...

The second episode of Red Dwarf XII sees us finally getting the much discussed ‘the one where everyone’s Kryten’ episode of the show that Doug and the cast have been teasing for so long. For an episode that starts with this as a concept, its possibly surprising that we also have various other plot strands all vying for attention at the same time, perhaps with some taking the atte...

It may only have been a year since Series XI, but that hasn’t stopped the 12th series of Red Dwarf being any less anticipated. And with Cured now having aired on Dave following it preview a week before on UKTV Play, we’ve once again gathered to discuss a brand new episode of the show. In this edition, we look through an episode that features a lot of scenes we really didn’t expec...

While Series XII airs on tv next week on October 12th, it will start airing online from this Thursday. Crikey.  So with very little time before we all start discussing the new episodes, we’ve once again gathered together to bring you The Garbage Podcast preview for Series XII. Despite less information released in advance for this this series than XI, there’s still a whole host of tidbi...

In this last edition of our celebration of Series V’s 25th anniversary, we sit down to talk about Back to Reality on it’s silver anniversary for our latest commentary. To this day it’s still a relief that this episode went out last rather than first in Series V, as it encapsulated perfectly what we look for in an end of Series episode, and would arguably go on to set a mould that Series VI-X would...

As we rapidly approach the end of Series V’s silver anniversary, we’re back once again to celebrate the silver anniversary of Series V’s initial run with our commentary for Demons & Angels, which aired 25 years ago today. It’s perhaps the closet thing Series V has to a light and fun knock about episode, which sits starkly in contrast with the darker elements throughout....

Another week has passed and we’re back again to celebrate the silver anniversary of Series V’s initial run with our commentary for Quarentine, which aired 25 years ago today. If the episodes that the VHS tapes used to name each byte is an indication of the popularity of an episode, then this ranks right alongside Back to Reality. And whether you agree or not, there’s no denying t...

It’s been 25 years today since Terrorform first aired, and we’re marking the occasion with the latest edition of our Series V anniversary commentaries. It’s an episode that sees Rimmer stranded on a world where his own neurosis’ could very well be the end of him, and it’s down to the rest of the crew to save him. On the basis of that description, you’d be hard p...

In this edition of our continuing celebration of Series V’s 25th anniversary, we talk about The Inquisitor for our latest commentary. It’s the episode that’s perhaps the perfect encapsulation of Series V’s aesthetic. A strong sic-fi story at the centre with some horror aspects that owe more than a small debt to The Terminator, but it also finds the time to take in some great char...

Yesterday marked our fifth anniversary on this site, and one thing we have been doing regularly in those five years is marking the 25th anniversary of each episode’s initial airing with a Garbage Podcast commentary. So with alarming predictability, we’re back mark 25 years since Series V. In this edition, we sit down to watch the series opener; Holoship. Series V sees something of a bo...

2016 is almost at an end and it’s been a big year for Red Dwarf. Series XI has seen many elements return to the show as well as exploring new areas, and has perhaps set the show up to go on for further episodes better than Series X did. But it’s not just been the shows themselves. We’ve also had the DVD, a mobile game, a section of Lego Dimensions dedicated to the series, a whole...

After waiting so long for Series XI to hit our screens, it’s all gone by in something of a flash with this week’s episode Can of Worms being the last of the series. It’s also perhaps the episode that was most anticipated wth it having been teased early on. So did it live up to expectation? That may well depend on whether you had already guessed the twist, with this episode essent...

As we hurtle towards the end of Series XI, we have one penultimate stop before the finale with Krysis. Episode 5 is often the point in a six part series where you can hide your weakest episode. This isn’t always the case of course, and even in Red Dwarf, episodes like Queeg happily break that mould. So where does this episode fit on that two point scale? Whatever your feelings, it’s an episode whi...

Rimmer based episodes are nothing new to Red Dwarf, so the inclusion of one in Series XI isn’t a huge shock. But that’s not to say that this isn’t an episode that didn’t surprise; both in ways intended and not. It’s an episode with an interesting central science based idea that allows for a bit of fun with multiple Rimmers, as well as providing a means to do it that i...