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Kochanski becomes a regular character for Series VII and VIII.Īt the end of Series VII, we learn that Kryten's service nanobots, which had abandoned him years earlier, were behind the theft of the Red Dwarf at the end of series five. Early in series VII, Rimmer departs (due to actor Chris Barrie's commitments) and is replaced by Kristine Kochanski, Lister's long-term love interest, from an alternate universe. In Series VI, a story arc is introduced where Red Dwarf has been stolen, and the crew pursues it in the smaller Starbug craft, with the side effect that the character Holly disappears. In Series III, the computer Holly changes from male ( Norman Lovett) to female ( Hattie Hayridge), and the mechanoid Kryten (who had appeared in one episode in Series II ) joins the crew and becomes a regular character.
Especially in the early episodes, a recurring source of comedy was the Odd Couple-style relationship between the two central characters of the show, who have an intense dislike for each other yet are trapped together deep in space. Though it has a science fiction setting, much of the humour comes from the interactions of the characters, particularly the laid-back Lister and the stuck-up Rimmer.ĭespite the pastiche of science fiction used as a backdrop, Red Dwarf is primarily a character-driven comedy, with science fiction elements used as complementary plot devices. The crew encounters phenomena such as time distortions, faster-than-light travel, mutant diseases and strange lifeforms (all evolved from Earth, because the series has no aliens) that had developed in the intervening millions of years. The series revolves around Lister being the last human alive, 3 million years from Earth, with his companions. They are joined by a creature known only as Cat, the last member of a race of humanoid felines that evolved in the ship's hold from Lister's pregnant cat during the 3 million years that Lister was in stasis. His former bunkmate and immediate superior Arnold Judas Rimmer (a character plagued by failure) is resurrected by Holly as a hologram to keep Lister sane. Lister therefore emerges as the last human being in the universe-but not alone on board the ship. Following the accident, the ship's computer Holly keeps Lister in stasis until the radiation levels return to normal-a process that takes three million years. Said cat, Frankenstein, who is revealed to be pregnant, is safe in the cargo hold. In the first episode, set sometime in the late 21st century, an on-board radiation leak kills everyone except lowest-ranking technician Dave Lister, who is in suspended animation at the time, as punishment for smuggling a cat onboard ship. The main setting of the series is the eponymous mining spaceship Red Dwarf. Red Dwarf's design from Series X (2012) and onward
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In a 2019 ranking by Empire, Red Dwarf came 80 on a list of the 100 best TV shows of all time. Series XI was voted "Best Returning TV Sitcom" and "Comedy of the Year" for 2016 by readers for the British Comedy Guide. The revived series on Dave has consistently delivered some of the highest ratings for non-Public Service Broadcasting commissions in the UK. The series attracted its highest ratings, of more than eight million viewers, during the eighth series in 1999. In the same year the series was also awarded "Best BBC Comedy Series" at the British Comedy Awards. One of the series' highest accolades came in 1994 when an episode from the sixth series, " Gunmen of the Apocalypse", won an International Emmy Award in the Popular Arts category. The magazine The Red Dwarf Smegazine was published from 1992 to 1994.
Two pilot episodes of an American version of the show were produced but never aired. Four novels were published from 1989 to 1996. To date, twelve series of the show have aired, in addition to The Promised Land. The premise of the series follows the low-ranking technician Dave Lister, who awakens after being in suspended animation for three million years to find he is the last living human, with no crew on board the mining spacecraft Red Dwarf other than Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister's deceased bunkmate, and Cat, a life form which evolved from Lister's pregnant cat.Īs of 2020, the cast includes Chris Barrie as Rimmer, Craig Charles as Lister, Danny John-Jules as Cat, Robert Llewellyn as the sanitation droid Kryten, and Norman Lovett as the ship's computer, Holly. Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 19, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.
Multi-camera (Series 1–6, 8, 10–present),