Craig Charles
Chris Barrie
Danny John-Jules
Robert Llewellyn
Norman Lovett
Hattie Hayridge
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Creator
... Creator
... Dave Lister
... Arnold Rimmer
... Cat
... Kryten
... Holly
... Holly #2
Premise:
A radiation leak wipes out the crew of the mining ship Red Dwarf, leaving only one survivor - chicken soup machine repair man, Dave Lister. After three million years in suspended animation, Lister emerges to find he is the last human being in the universe. But he is not alone. Cat has evolved from the cat that got Lister in trouble in the first place. Holly, the ship's computer, has brought back Lister's nemesis, Rimmer. For the second series, they find Kryten, an android.
Comments:
This British science fiction comedy was first filmed in 1988 and new episodes
are on hold while they work on a theatrical version. Since 1988, about fifty half-hour episodes in eight series have been filmed - it is a British television convention. American viewers are treated to the show
thanks to PBS (public television), Some of the British-based humor is lost on
Americans, but the dry wit is borderless.
Red Dwarf makes fun of the conventions of other science fiction shows and even its own past episodes. Rimmer often recounts all the disasters that they have previously encountered, which is a jab at episodic television's ability to forget traumatic events by the next episode. The British humor may not be for everyone.
