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Not as good as the Season Four Bonus Disc, but still fun (except for the bonus material menu, which is a real pain unless you've got a full-fledged 2D control to find the hotspots). High points are the outtakes (“Series I Smeg Ups”), the music cues, the model shots, and especially “Launching Red Dwarf”, an after-the-fact 25m29s documentary about how the series got started. Two amusing points: Craig Charles's then-wife asked why he tried for the part, since he “couldn't act” and “wasn't that funny”; and Danny John-Jules (who played Cat) was 30 minutes late to the audition but so nailed the part that the casting folks talked about not looking forward to seeing the other candidates because they knew he'd got it ;-).