Having repeated the first two series of Red Dwarf last year -- the first full-on repeat run the show has enjoyed on its channel of origin since 2007, and the first in peak viewing hours since the Remastered episodes were screened in 1998 and 1999 -- BBC Two have picked things up in the last week with a repeat of Series III, which has required me to try and edit the old Red Dwarf BBC Broadcasts Guide without completely fucking up the coding once again.
At the moment this post is published, "Marooned" will just have finished airing -- the seventh time it's been seen on BBC Two overall, which is the joint most times along with "The End" and "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" ("Gunmen" getting two extra outings for Red Dwarf Night and a seemingly random showing in 1999, and the Remastered version of "The End" being shown twice when every other Remastered episode only had the one airing).
But thanks to "Marooned" also getting a one-off airing as part of Two's fiftieth anniversary a decade ago, the episode holds a very interesting record: it has been shown once in the eighties for its original airing, three times in the nineties and once in the noughties for various repeat runs (including in its Remastered form in 1999), once in the twenty-tens and once in the twenty-twenties, all on the same channel it originally aired on.
How many other episodes of television can claim this record?
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