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   Your Name to The True Melissa   
   Re: Red Dwarf, anyone??   
   13 Sep 25 10:20:59   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.drwho   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   On 2025-09-12 15:30:48 +0000, The True Melissa said:   
   > Verily, in article <10a07r0$36kv8$1@dont-email.me>, did   
   > YourName@YourISP.com deliver unto us this message:   
   >> On 2025-09-11 22:36:21 +0000, The True Melissa said:   
   >>> Verily, in article <109vi8v$86f$12@gallifrey.nk.ca>, did   
   >>> doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca deliver unto us this message:   
   >>>> REd Dwarf - Liverpool humour dressed up as scifi   
   >>>   
   >>> It was never intended as serious SF. It's a sitcom in space, and a very   
   >>> funny one (for five years).   
   >>>   
   >>> Beside Red Dwarf and Star Trek: Lower Decks, are there any other SF   
   >>> sitcoms? Futurama, I guess. Krapopolis probably counts.   
   >>   
   >> Depends on how you define "sit-com" and "sci-fi" to some degree, but   
   >> there has been:   
   >>   
   >> - My Favourite Martian   
   >> - Quark   
   >> - Mork & Mindy   
   >> - ALF   
   >> - Third Rock From the Sun   
   >> - The Neighbors   
   >> - Metal Mickey   
   >> - Solar Opposites   
   >> - The Thundermans   
   >> - Hyperdrive   
   >> - Rick and Morty   
   >> - Small Wonder   
   >> - Inside Job   
   >> - We Are Not Alone   
   >>   
   >> to name a few.  :-)   
   >   
   > Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about some of those older ones (and never heard   
   > of some others). Some, like Mork and Mindy, are only technically in the   
   > genre.   
      
   Mork is an alien, he arrives on Earth in an egg-shaped spaceship, they   
   time-travelled at least once, ... it's more "sci-fi" than some other   
   shows claiming to be.  :-)   
      
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