• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  | genre = [[Comic science fiction]] ...The book was inspired by the song [[Grand Hotel (album)|"Grand Hotel"]] by British rock band [[Procol Harum]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Douglas|author
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• Slartibartfast
  ...surier]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Cook |first=John R. |title=British Science Fiction Television: A Hitchhiker's Guide |publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]] |year=2006 |pag ...rst=Glenn |title=The Anthology at the End of the Universe: Leading Science Fiction Authors on Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |publisher=[[Ben
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• Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers
  | genre = [[Comic science fiction]] ...Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers''''' is a best-selling [[science fiction]] [[comedy]] novel by Grant Naylor, the collective name for [[Rob Grant]] a
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• The Mouse on the Moon
  '''''The Mouse on the Moon''''' is a 1963 British [[comedy film]], the sequel to ''[[The Mouse That Roared (film)|The Mouse T ...ght. Maurice Spender (Terry-Thomas), a bumbling spy sent by the suspicious British, is given a tour of the ship, including the shower heads converted into [[V
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• Dirk Maggs
  {{Short description|British writer and director}} | nationality = British
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• Last Human
  | genre = [[Science fiction]] ...ision show created by Naylor and his partner [[Rob Grant]]. Like the other novels, it does not take place within the television series continuity, but instea
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• Arthur Dent
  ...make room for an intergalactic superhighway.}}</ref> of the comic science fiction series ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' by [[Douglas Adams]]. ...from [[Earth]] as it is demolished to make way for a [[Hyperspace (science fiction)|hyperspace]] [[Bypass (road)|bypass]]. Arthur spends the next several year
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• List of Red Dwarf concepts
  ...otagonist]] is trapped in stasis for 3 million years. As with many science fiction series, the programme has a few concepts specific to its own fictional univ ...pool arm is as sound as a dollarpound."</ref> which is an adaption of the British phrase "sound as a pound".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usingenglish.com/r
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• Justice (Red Dwarf)
  ...her =tv.com |access-date =2008-01-25}}</ref> It was first broadcast on the British television channel [[BBC2]] on 28 February 1991; although it was planned to ...ackstory and keep it in line with their vision of the story as seen in the novels.<ref name="Red Dwarf Series IV Writing">{{cite web|url=http://www.reddwarf.
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• Backwards (novel)
  {{portal|Novels}} [[Category:1996 British novels]]
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• Better Than Life (Red Dwarf episode)
  ...omes Careful Drivers|first]] and [[Better Than Life|second]] ''Red Dwarf'' novels. ...chive-date=6 October 2006 }}</ref> The same hotel would later hold science fiction conventions for ''[[Star Trek]]'', ''[[Space: 1999]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who]]
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• GELF
  ...in ''Red Dwarf''" in John R. Cook, Peter Wright, (2006), ''British science fiction television: a hitchhiker's guide'', page 243. I.B.Tauris</ref> It originall ...ns. The Kinitawowi pursue ''Starbug'' across space in a [[Space warfare in fiction#Naval influences|battle cruiser]], in a bid to return Lister to his Kinataw
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• Confidence and Paranoia
  ...Guide |access-date =31 January 2008}}</ref> It was first broadcast on the British television channel [[BBC Two|BBC2]] on 14 March 1988.<ref name="BBC Program ...writings, and then gets intensely involved with reading [[Hercule Poirot]] novels.
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• Kristine Kochanski
  ...April 2009 }}</ref>}} is a fictional character from the British [[science fiction]] [[situation comedy]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. Kochanski was the first console o ...er]] ([[Craig Charles]]) is released from three million years in [[stasis (fiction)|stasis]], [[Holly (Red Dwarf)|Holly]] ([[Norman Lovett]]) confirms to List
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• Cat (Red Dwarf)
  ...o a humanoid form over three million years while Lister was in [[w:stasis (fiction)|stasis]] (suspended animation). As a character he is vain and aloof, and l ...orn kittens, were sealed in the hold while Lister was put into [[w:Stasis (fiction)|stasis]] as punishment for keeping an unquarantined cat on board. Lister i
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• Michael Bentine
  | honorific_suffix={{postnominal|country=GBR|size=100%|list=[[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]]}} ...ichael James Bentine" with a date of birth of 26 January 1922.</ref> was a British comedian, [[w:Comedy film|comic actor]] and founding member of [[The Goon S
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• George Sanders
  {{Short description|British actor and singer (1906–1972)}} | alma_mater = [[w:University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology|Manchester Technical College]]
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• Kryten
  ...character|fictional character]] in the British [[w:science fiction|science fiction]] [[w:situation comedy|situation comedy]] ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. The name ''Kry ...ies-no=II |number=1 }}</ref> This episode also marks a 'first' in science-fiction history in which an android deliberately gives a human being the '[[w:The f
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• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)
  | format = [[Comic science fiction]] ...Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''''' is a [[comic science fiction|science fiction comedy]] radio series written by [[Douglas Adams]] (with some material in t
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• Dennis Price
  ...3)"], BFI screenonline, reprinted from MacFarlane (ed.) ''Encyclopaedia of British Cinema'', London: Methuen/BFI, 2003, p. 534</ref> ...Own]]'' (1945) starring [[James Mason]]. [[British National Films Company|British National]] borrowed him for ''[[The Echo Murders]]'' (1946), a Sexton Blake
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