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	The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html \| title =Remasters of the Universe \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =28 January 2008 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104012351/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archive-date = 4 January 2008}}</ref> General changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =30 January 2008 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118140243/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archive-date = 18 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery\|computer generated]] [[~~special~~ effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>		The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html \| title =Remasters of the Universe \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =28 January 2008 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104012351/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archive-date = 4 January 2008}}</ref> General changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web \| url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html \| title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering \| publisher =reddwarf.co.uk \|access-date =30 January 2008 \|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118140243/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> \|archive-date = 18 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery\|computer generated]] [[visual effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video \| people =Remastering Crew \| title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary \| medium =DVD \| publisher =BBC \| location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc \| date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>

	There have been changes made specific to "Timeslides". The special guest star Adolf Hitler mention has been removed from the opening credits. Lister kicking the bomb into the timeslide has been tightened and a fire element added to explosion. Lister's reference to the Dustin Hoffman movie ''Ishtar'' has been removed, as have references to ''Xanadu'' and ''Citizen Kane''. A running water video effect has been added to rich Lister's huge statue.		There have been changes made specific to "Timeslides". The special guest star Adolf Hitler mention has been removed from the opening credits. Lister kicking the bomb into the timeslide has been tightened and a fire element added to explosion. Lister's reference to the Dustin Hoffman movie ''Ishtar'' has been removed, as have references to ''Xanadu'' and ''Citizen Kane''. A running water video effect has been added to rich Lister's huge statue.

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	"'''Timeslides'''" is the fifth episode of [[science fiction]] [[~~sit-com~~]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series III,<ref name="British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 3">{{cite web \| url =http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series3.shtml \| title =British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 3 \| publisher =sitcom.co.uk \|access-date =25 January 2008}}</ref> and the seventeenth in the series run.<ref name="TV.com – Timeslides summary">{{cite web \| url =http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/timeslides/episode/10961/summary.html \| title =TV.com – Timeslides summary \| publisher =tv.com \|access-date =25 January 2008}}</ref> It premiered on the British television channel [[BBC2]] on 12 December 1989. Written by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Ed Bye]], the plot deals with Lister's desire to change his life by going back in time and changing his past. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998.		"'''Timeslides'''" is the fifth episode of [[science fiction]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series III,<ref name="British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 3">{{cite web \| url =http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series3.shtml \| title =British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 3 \| publisher =sitcom.co.uk \|access-date =25 January 2008}}</ref> and the seventeenth in the series run.<ref name="TV.com – Timeslides summary">{{cite web \| url =http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/timeslides/episode/10961/summary.html \| title =TV.com – Timeslides summary \| publisher =tv.com \|access-date =25 January 2008}}</ref> It premiered on the British television channel [[BBC2]] on 12 December 1989. Written by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Ed Bye]], the plot deals with Lister's desire to change his life by going back in time and changing his past. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998.

	==Plot==		==Plot==

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	*{{BBC episode\|p00bp30c\|Timeslides}}		*{{BBC episode\|p00bp30c\|Timeslides}}
	*{{IMDb episode\|0684185}}		*{{IMDb episode\|0684185}}

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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Red Dwarf]]
| image = red dwarf timeslides scene with tension sheet.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Lister decides to use a timeslide and the Tension Sheet invention to change his past
| series_no = 3
| episode = 5
| director = Ed Bye
| writer = Rob Grant & Doug Naylor
| airdate = {{Start date|1989|12|12|df=yes}}
| guests = {{Plainlist |
* Simon Gaffney as Young Rimmer
* [[Robert Addie]] as Gilbert
* Rupert Bates as Bodyguard
* Richard Hainsworth as Bodyguard
* [[Emile Charles]] as Young Lister
* Stephen McKintosh as Thicky Holden
* Louisa Ruthven as Ski Woman
* [[Koo Stark]] as Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones
* [[Mark Steel]] as Ski Man
* [[Ruby Wax]] as Blaize Falconburger
* [[Adolf Hitler]] as himself }}
| prev = [[Bodyswap (Red Dwarf)|Bodyswap]]
| next = [[The Last Day (Red Dwarf)|The Last Day]]
| episode_list = List of Red Dwarf episodes
}}
"'''Timeslides'''" is the fifth episode of [[science fiction]] [[sit-com]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' Series III,<ref name="British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 3">{{cite web | url =http://www.sitcom.co.uk/red_dwarf/series3.shtml | title =British Sitcom Guide – Red Dwarf – Series 3 | publisher =sitcom.co.uk |access-date =25 January 2008}}</ref> and the seventeenth in the series run.<ref name="TV.com – Timeslides summary">{{cite web | url =http://www.tv.com/red-dwarf/timeslides/episode/10961/summary.html | title =TV.com – Timeslides summary | publisher =tv.com |access-date =25 January 2008}}</ref> It premiered on the British television channel [[BBC2]] on 12 December 1989. Written by [[Rob Grant]] and [[Doug Naylor]], and directed by [[Ed Bye]], the plot deals with Lister's desire to change his life by going back in time and changing his past. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998.

==Plot==
[[Dave Lister]] ([[Craig Charles]]) confides with [[Cat (Red Dwarf)|Cat]] ([[Danny John-Jules]]) and [[Arnold Rimmer]] ([[Chris Barrie]]) that he has become bored with their various games, and has begun to hate his life on ''Red Dwarf''. The group are interrupted and called to the ship's Darkroom when [[Kryten]] ([[Robert Llewellyn]]) discovers that the developing fluid has mutated, causing any photo it develops to come to life. Utilising slides to demonstrate the effect, Lister accidentally trips into a slide of a wedding photo, and discovers they can interact with the contents but cannot move beyond the borders of the original photo, learning that they can use this to travel in time when Lister interacts with one of Rimmer's old photos of [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref name="Prog Guide p64">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 64.</ref> Lister quickly decides to use this method of time travel to change his life and make his younger self the inventor of "tension sheets", a product that one of Rimmer's former schoolmates invented that led them to becoming wealthy.

The group travel back to when Lister was 17 and fronting a band called "Smeg and the Heads". Lister convinces his teenaged self (Emile Charles) to take the tension sheet he brought with him down to the patent office and register it as his own invention. Upon returning to the present, Rimmer finds that history has been changed – while he and [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] ([[Hattie Hayridge]]) are the only occupants on ''Red Dwarf'', Lister grew up to be a success story, while Cat and his race never came to exist, and Kryten was never rescued. Rimmer opts to learn how successful Lister became, and using his new background from Holly's database, travels into the past to discover that he became wealthy, living a luxurious life in a mansion with a supermodel.<ref name="Prog Guide p65">Howarth & Lyons (1993) p. 65.</ref> Annoyed by Lister's success, Rimmer decides to change the past by trying to convince his younger self to invent the tension sheet, but instead returns time to the way it was. However, Holly notes that his actions had the side effect of making him human again, which he enjoys for a brief moment before he accidentally blows himself up with explosive crates.<ref name="Prog Guide p65"/>

==Production==
Due to a continuity error, certain lines had to be cut from the skiing holiday picture scene. The scene established that Lister had got somebody's skiing holiday pictures back by mistake. The skiers were scripted to discuss how they received Lister's rather scary birthday snaps in place of theirs. Craig Charles realised that this was a continuity flaw as at that time, the skiers would not have received them yet.<ref name="Red Dwarf series III Production">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_3/production.html | title =Red Dwarf series III Production | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =7 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080421163500/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_3/production.html  |archive-date = 21 April 2008}}</ref> The lines were cut, but as they were originally speaking parts, the actors present were still credited for their parts.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series III Casting">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_3/casting.html | title =Red Dwarf Series III Casting | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =7 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080421163453/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_3/casting.html  |archive-date = 21 April 2008}}</ref>

The episode featured music from Charles. Not only did he write "Bad News" and "Cash" but he penned the song "Om" which was sung by the young Lister, who was played by Emile Charles, Craig's brother.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series III Music">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_3/music.html | title =Red Dwarf Series III Music | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =7 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080421163455/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_3/music.html  |archive-date = 21 April 2008}}</ref> Young Lister was lead singer in the band 'Smeg and the Heads', portrayed by [[Jeff Walker (musician)|Jeffrey Walker]] and [[Bill Steer]] of real-life band [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]].

Simon Gaffney played the Young Rimmer. [[Robert Addie]] played Gilbert, Lister's servant. Rupert Bates and Richard Hainsworth each played as one of Lister's bodyguards.<ref name="Timeslides cast and crew">{{cite web | url =https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0684185/fullcredits | title =Timeslides cast and crew | publisher =IMDb |access-date =25 January 2008}}</ref> Stephen McKintosh played Thickie Holden, Rimmer's roommate and inventor of the Tension Sheet.<ref name="Timeslides cast and crew"/> Louisa Ruthven appeared as Ski Woman and [[Mark Steel]] appeared as Ski Man in one of the Timeslide photos, [[Koo Stark]] played Lady Sabrina Mulholland-Jjones, Lister's "most desirable woman in the Western Hemisphere" fiancée.<ref name="Timeslides cast and crew"/> [[Ruby Wax]], director Ed Bye's wife, played Blaize Falconberger, the host of the fictional television series ''Lifestyles of the Disgustingly Rich and Famous''.<ref name="Timeslides cast and crew"/> Wax was a late addition to the cast as the original actor chosen to play Blaize, [[Graham Chapman]] of [[Monty Python]] fame, died shortly before rehearsals began. Chris Barrie also appears in one slide as Rimmer's brother Frank, in a picture of Frank's wedding which Lister manages to accidentally gatecrash, leading an annoyed Frank to repeatedly punch Lister in the stomach. Barrie's portrayal of Frank is similar to Barrie's later portrayal of Ace Rimmer, the more successful, brave and popular version of Rimmer from a parallel dimension. This is most evident in Ace's accent as his voice is a more mid-atlantic version of the voice Barrie used to play Frank.

==Cultural references==
One of the Timeslide photos shows [[Adolf Hitler]], leader of the "runners-up" in [[World War II]], in [[Nuremberg]]. Lister comes back from the Timeslide with a suitcase from [[Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg|Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg]], who was a key member in the assassination attempt on Hitler. The possibilities of the Timeslides are endless, as Lister says, that they could go back and convince [[Dustin Hoffman]] not to make ''[[Ishtar (film)|Ishtar]]''.<ref name="Timeslides movie connections">{{cite web | url =https://www.imdb.com/rg/title-tease/movieconnections/title/tt0684185/movieconnections | title =Timeslides movie connections | publisher =IMDb |access-date =25 January 2008}}</ref>

With the timelines changed, Lister is now famous and rich, as shown in a news reel. He bought [[Buckingham Palace]] and "...had it ground down just to line his drive". He called his home "Xanadu", not as a reference to the movie ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', but rather as a tribute to the hit single by [[Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich]]. The wealthy Lister is profiled in a fictional television series, as a spoof of ''[[Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous]]''.

[[Dave Lister|Lister's]] teenage self continually accuses him of being a [[Crypto-fascism|crypto-fascist]].

Dobbin and Gazza from Lister's band 'Smeg and the Heads' are actually played by [[Jeff Walker (musician)|Jeff Walker]] and [[Bill Steer]] from the [[death metal]]/[[grindcore]] band [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]].

The alternate Lister's mansion and the courtyard with the non-urinating statue is a Grade 1 listed mansion house within [[Lyme Park]]. The building can also be seen in the background of the spoof series presented by Ruby Wax. The mansion dining room scene was filmed in the dining room of [[Tatton Hall]].

==Reception==
The episode was originally broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 12 December 1989 in the 9:00 pm evening time slot.<ref name="BBC Programme Catalogue – RED DWARF III THE SAGA CONTINUUMS – 5, TIMESLIDES">{{cite web | url =http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/NMRJ904N | title =BBC – Programme Catalogue – RED DWARF III THE SAGA CONTINUUMS – 5, TIMESLIDES | publisher =BBC |access-date =11 December 2007}}</ref>

==Remastering==
{{See also|Red Dwarf remastered}}

The remastering of Series I to III was carried out during the late 1990s.<ref name="Remasters of the Universe">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html | title =Remasters of the Universe | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =28 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080104012351/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck01/dvd_remasters_of_the_universe_221206.html  |archive-date = 4 January 2008}}</ref> General changes throughout the series included replacement of the opening credits,<ref name="Red Dwarf Series I Remastering">{{cite web | url =http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html | title =Red Dwarf Series I Remastering | publisher =reddwarf.co.uk |access-date =30 January 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080118140243/http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/deck05/series_1/remastering.html  |archive-date = 18 January 2008}}</ref> giving the picture a colour grade and [[filmising]],<ref name="The End Re-Mastered Commentary">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title =The End Re-Mastered DVD Commentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc | date =2007 }}</ref> [[Computer-generated imagery|computer generated]] [[special effects]] of ''Red Dwarf''<ref name="Re-Dwarf">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title ='Re-Dwarf' Documentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset Red disc | date =2007 }}</ref> and many more visual and audio enhancements.<ref name="Re-Dwarf"/>

There have been changes made specific to "Timeslides". The special guest star Adolf Hitler mention has been removed from the opening credits. Lister kicking the bomb into the timeslide has been tightened and a fire element added to explosion. Lister's reference to the Dustin Hoffman movie ''Ishtar'' has been removed, as have references to ''Xanadu'' and ''Citizen Kane''. A running water video effect has been added to rich Lister's huge statue.
<ref name="Timeslides text commentary">{{cite video | people =Remastering Crew | title =Timeslides text commentary | medium =DVD | publisher =BBC | location =Bodysnatcher DVD Boxset, Green disc | date =2007 }}</ref>

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
*{{cite book |last=Howarth |first=Chris |author2=Steve Lyons |title=Red Dwarf Programme Guide |year=1993 |publisher=Virgin Books |isbn=0-86369-682-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/reddwarfprogramm0000howa }}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Red_Dwarf#.22Timeslides.22|Timeslides}}
*{{BBC episode|p00bp30c|Timeslides}}
*{{IMDb episode|0684185}}
*[http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/guide/index.cfm?seriesID=3 Series III episode guide at www.reddwarf.co.uk]

{{Red Dwarf episodes}}

[[Category:Red Dwarf III episodes]]
[[Category:1989 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Television episodes about time travel]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler]]