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Olaf Petersen is a character in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, played by Mark Williams. He was a Danish catering officer on the Red Dwarf mining vessel.
First appearing in the pilot episode, Petersen was the best friend of Dave Lister. He, Lister, Selby and Chen spent most of their free time getting drunk. Rimmer considered him to be "a Danish moron". When Petersen went to have a mind scan for his hologrammatic programme, the machine crashed three times claiming a non human life form was aboard the ship.
Like the rest of the crew Petersen was killed in the radiation leak. However he subsequently appeared in two other episodes: in a first season flashback to before the accident in Balance of Power and when Lister and The Cat travelled back in time to before the accident in the second season episode Stasis Leak. Also in Balance of Power, an error with the ships hologram generation unit resulted in Rimmer being given his arm.
Petersen was resurrected along with the rest of the crew in series 8, but was not seen, although he was often referred to.
The novel reveals that Petersen was aboard Red Dwarf in order to make his way to the dome colony on Triton, where he had bought an extravagant house for only two thousand dollarpounds - the cheapness being because the colony's oxygen atmosphere had not been installed yet. It also explains that he was not chosen to keep Lister company as a hologram despite being his best friend, because "The only thing you had in common was consuming ridiculous amounts of alcohol." In the novel Backwards a Petersen from an alternate reality where the radiation leak never happened makes an appearance - he explains that he is still aboard Red Dwarf and not living in his house on Triton because alcohol was prohibited. He also bought a Marilyn Monroe droid on Callisto, which turned out to be a load of rubbish (apart to other androids).
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