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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
That's probably where they got the name Kryten from, for the android on 'Red Dwarf'
The name comes from J.M.Barrie's play "The Admirable Chrighton". A Jeeves-like butler who becomes de facto leader of a shipwrecked family.
IIRC Buck Rogers just used the name as a generic butler/servant name. In Red Dwarf the use more closely matches the spirit of the play - vastly more competent servant doomed by programming/class system to serve ignorant and ineffectual masters.
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