Trivia / Red Dwarf Season I "Balance of Power"

• The Cast Showoff: Lister's disco music, "Fakin'", was by Motor City Diva and Danny John-Jules.
• Deleted Scene:
  • Additional dialogue in Lister's flashback of a Saturday night party with his boozing mates was cut for time. This includes Olaf Petersen telling the others that they aren't doing so well, since it is 11pm, and they can all still see. Olaf also tells the others about some strange new tattoos which have appeared on his arms that he doesn't remember getting whilst drunk.
  • Additional dialogue before Lister's chef exam was cut for time reasons also. Rimmer is very worried and tries to dissuade Lister, who is reading a Zero Gravity Football magazine and "revising buns", eating them. Rimmer claims that Lister is being "confident on purpose to torture him".
  • Lister's exam scene was originally longer, and featured a larger role for Clare Grogan playing as Rimmer inside Kochanski's body.
• Executive Meddling: The story was written as pure sitcom at the request from The BBC who didn't want the show to be too heavy on science fiction elements.

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