Timeslides
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Timeslides" | |
| Image:Timeslides (Red Dwarf).jpg | |
| Episode № | 5 |
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| Airdate | December 12, 1989 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Director | Ed Bye |
| Guest star(s) | Adolf Hitler as himself |
| Series III November 14 – December 19, 1989 |
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Timeslides was the fifth episode to air in the third series of Red Dwarf.
[edit] Synopsis
Kryten discovers that a mutating batch of photographic developing fluid produces photographs that are windows to the past, and slide projections that one can step into (albeit only within the confines of the photo). After visiting Frank Rimmer's wedding and one of Adolf Hitler's speeches, Lister goes back in time and changes history by giving his seventeen-year-old self an invention that will make him a billionaire. His actions in the 'past' create changes in the 'present' because of determinism. In the new history, Rimmer is left alone with Holly, but only until he has the idea of going further back in time and giving the invention to himself first. Rimmer's plan is foiled when one of his childhood schoolmates overhears the conversation between young and old Rimmer, and takes the invention for himself. Upon returning to the present, everything is put back exactly the way it was (with the sole exception that Rimmer is now alive - not a hologram - although he manages to accidentally kill himself soon after).
[edit] Trivia
- Craig Charles wrote, produced and performed three musical numbers in this episode: Bad News (the instrumental to which Kryten is dancing), Cash and the infamous Om Song.
- The Om Song played by Lister's old band, Smeg and the Heads, featured Jeff Walker and Bill Steer of the grindcore band Carcass.
- Charles' brother, Emile Charles portrayed the young Lister in this episode.
