1989 was a simpler time, a world away. Yugoslavia won Eurovision, the other George Bush took office and Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj announced the establishment of Mongolia’s democratic movement.
Sci-fi nerds across the country put their dragons back into dungeons and gathered round their primitive 1980s television sets to watch space sit-com, Red Dwarf.
Over the next six years, Red Dwarf grew into a cult phenomenon, and the minutiae of each episode was discussed at face melting length in fanzines and – as though the medium was invented for it – over the internet.