* The British TV show Hyperdrive on BBC2 uses the tune as its theme.

In Episode 5 of Series 1 of a BBC Sci-fi sitcom, Hyperdrive, a MacArthur-like character, Clare Winchester, a round-the-galaxy solo spacewoman played by Sally Phillips, is parodied with references to video diaries, a diminishing grip on reality and friendlessness.

In early 2006, Frost played Commander Henderson in two series of the BBC Two science fiction sitcom, Hyperdrive.

Joseph played Space Marshall Clarke in two series of the BBC sci-fi sitcom Hyperdrive, and was Benjamin Maddox in the BBC serial-drama Jekyll.

HMS Seaton Carew is a ( fictitious ) space vessel that appeared in an episode the BBC 2 TV series Hyperdrive.

With Kevin Cecil, his friend since they attended Aylesbury Grammar School, he created and wrote the sitcoms The Great Outdoors for BBC Four, Hyperdrive for BBC Two and Slacker Cats for the ABC Family Channel.

However, this is the only time that Hyperdrive is described this way.

* Hyperdrives allow for faster-than-light travel, but at a rate slow enough ( 1 light year per 3 days, ~ 122c ) to keep the galaxy vast and unknown ; the new Quantum II Hyperdrive, developed by the Puppeteers but not yet released to humans, can cross a light year in just 1. 25 minutes (~ 425, 000c ).

Blake's 7 also influenced Hyperdrive and Aeon Flux.

" Light the Sky on Fire " ( backed with Sears ' and Slick's " Hyperdrive ", from Dragon Fly ) was included as a bonus single in the original packaging of album.

The Republic itself was formed in 25, 053 BBY when the first " Galactic Constitution " was signed on Coruscant, after the Corellian Hyperdrive connected many worlds in the Galactic Core.

At least one warship, the Tria, attempted to reach Earth using modified sublight engines that ran at 99. 9 % of Light Speed after the ship's Hyperdrive was destroyed.

Hyperdrive is a name given to certain methods of traveling faster-than-light ( FTL ) in science fiction.

Hyperdrive may also allow for dramatic escapes as the pilot " jumps " to hyperspace in the midst of battle to avoid destruction.

When Louis comes up with an ingenious way to get them home, he is rewarded by the Puppeteers with the " Quantum II Hyperdrive ," capable of moving a spaceship one light-year in 1. 25 minutes.

Eldon has featured in several other comedy projects including Brass Eye, Smack the Pony, 15 Storeys High, Spaced, Look Around You, Packing Them In, Black Books, Big Train, World of Pub, The Sunday Show, Comedy Nation, Cows, Jam, I Am Not an Animal, I'm Alan Partridge, The Sofa of Time, Attention Scum !, Nighty Night, Green Wing, Jammin ', Nathan Barley, Hyperdrive, Saxondale, This is Jinsy, and as a panel guest on Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

Hyperdrive affects General Products hulls, since it is used by the ships to travel.

Hyperdrive technology has been sabotaged, and the ' keys ', jump points between solar systems, kept secret.

The only way to lose power is to be hit by weapons fire or to use the Hyperdrive, which slowly depletes the reserves.

The film was released in special two-disc " Hyperdrive Edition " DVD in 2010 by VCI Entertainment and contains both the Director's Cut and a longer Original Theatrical Release, as well as a long featurette explaining the origins of Dark Star and how it was produced.

Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

Father Ted is an Irish sitcom that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4.

* Gary: Tank Commander, a British television sitcom

* Hole ( Bottom episode ), an episode of the British television sitcom Bottom

* Yes Minister, a satirical sitcom about a generic British government, widely described by politicians as accurate

In 1989, he played the title role in the sitcom Colin's Sandwich, playing a British Rail employee with aspirations to be a writer.

In Episode 4 (" Animals ") of the British sitcom Men Behaving Badly, Series 1, Dermot ( played by Harry Enfield ) says to Gary ( played by Martin Clunes ), " There she was, just standing there, making Michelle Pfeiffer look like Neil Kinnock.

The British sitcom Peep Show is shown entirely through the viewpoints of the characters and lets the audience hear the two lead characters ' thoughts.

The British TV sitcom Up Pompeii uses situations and stock characters from Plautus's plays.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

* The Thin Blue Line ( TV series ), a British sitcom set in a police station, starring Rowan Atkinson, David Haig and Serena Evans

The White Russian is also the drink of choice of Maurice Moss, an IT guy on the British sitcom The IT Crowd.

Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1968, in 1970, and from 1972 to 1975.

The ale is mentioned in the popular blues rock song " Thirty Days in the Hole ", by British group Humble Pie and was recently seen drunk in the sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

A British sitcom is a situation comedy programme produced for British television and tends, as it does in most other countries, to be based on a family, workplace or other institution, where the same group of contrasting characters is brought together in each episode.

The first British sitcom was Pinwright's Progress, broadcast by the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the form didn't really take off until the transfer of Hancock's Half Hour from BBC radio in 1956.

The 1970s is often regarded as the golden era of British sitcom.

Desmond's ( 1989 – 94 ) was the first British sitcom with a black cast set in the workplace, and Drop the Dead Donkey ( 1990 – 98 ) brought topicality to the form as it was recorded close to transmission.

* Martin Wainwright, The Guardian, 7 June 2005, " Del Boy is top of the class, say sitcom scientists " – scientist develops formula for measuring ( British ) sitcom success

* The Young Ones ( TV series ), a 1980s British sitcom about four students living together ( which uses the song " The Young Ones " as its theme tune ).