Reception
The episode was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 14 March 1991 in the 9:00pm evening time slot, although it was initially intended to be shown first as the series opener, but the Gulf War hostilities at the time meant that the BBC held back the episode along with "Meltdown". When the hostilities ceased the show was able to be broadcast later in the run.
Considered to be one of the best episodes by many, it also topped the Series IV list in a Red Dwarf magazine poll—with 7.3% of the overall votes. In the Series IV DVD, Chris Barrie names this as his favourite episode.
The BBC decided to use the popularity of the episode to head the second part of the Series IV video tape release, despite "White Hole" being fourth in the running order.
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