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Red Dwarf is a British science fiction, comedy franchise, which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999 and on Dave since 2009 gaining a cult following To date. Eleven full series of the show, plus one special miniseries, have aired The most recent series Red Dwarf XII, started airing.
In October 2017, The series was created by Rob, Grant, and Doug Naylor.
In addition to the television episodes, there are four novels, a radio version adapted from the audiobooks two pilot episodes for an American version of the show tied in books, magazines, and other merchandise Set on the eponymous mining spaceship.
The main character is Dave Lister.
Initially, the last known human alive and Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister’s, deceased bunkmate, The other, members of the crew are Cat, a life form that evolved from the descendants of Lister’s, pregnant pet cat, Frankenstein Holly Red, a Dwarf’s computer Series.
I V VIII and briefly in the final episodes of VII XII, Kryten, a service mechanoid Series II present and Kristine Kochanski an alternative reality version of Lister’s, love interest Series VII VIII.
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, and the same year, the series was also awarded Best BBC Comedy Series at the British Comedy Awards The series attracted its highest ratings of more than eight million viewers during the eighth series in 1999, The revived series on digital channel Dave has consistently delivered some of the highest ratings for non-Public Service Broadcasting commissions.
In the UK, The show has been critically acclaimed and has a Metacritic score of 84 100 Series XI was voted Best Returning TV, Sitcom, and Comedy of the Year for 2016 by readers for the British Comedy Guide, Setting, and plot.
The main setting of the series is the eponymous mining spaceship Red Dwarf The first episode is set sometime in the late 22nd century.
An onboard radiation leak kills everyone except the lowest-ranking technician, Dave Lister, who is in suspended animation at the time, and his pregnant cat. Frankenstein who is safe in the cargo hold 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.
Lister therefore emerges as the last human being in the universe, but not alone.
On board the ship, 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.
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.
The series revolves around Lister being the last human alive, 3 million years from Earth with his companions, initially Rimmer Cat and Holly.
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, Though it is science fiction.
Much of the humor comes from the interactions of the characters, particularly the laid-back Lister and the stuck-up Rimmer 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 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. Series VII is also set in Starbug 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.
Kochanski becomes a regular character for Series VII and VIII At 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 the series.
Five At the beginning of the eighth series, Kryten’s nanobots reconstructed the Red Dwarf, which they had broken down into its constituent atoms.
As a consequence, Series VIII features the entire original crew of Red Dwarf resurrected, except for the already alive Lister and Kochanski, including a pre-accident Rimmer and the original male Holly.
The series ends with a metal-eating virus loose on Red Dwarf The entire crew.
Evacuates save the main cast Lister Rimmer Cat, Kryten, and Kochanski, whose fate is unresolved in a cliffhanger ending Series.
Ix onwards revert to the same four main characters of Series: 3, 6 Lister, Rimmer Cat, and Kryten on Red Dwarf and without Kochanski or Holly, and Rimmer is again a hologram.
It has not been confirmed whether the Rimmer onboard ship is the one who originally left the revived version or a third incarnation entirely.
However, episodes have alluded to him, remembering events from both previous incarnations, Characters, and actors. Dave Lister played by Craig Charles is a genial, Scouser, and self-described bum.
He was the lowest ranking of the 169 crew members on the ship before the accident.
Lister survived the accident as he was in stasis for smuggling an unquarantined cat on board.
He has a long-standing desire to return to Earth and start a farm and or diner in Fiji, which is under three feet of water following a volcanic eruption, but is left impossibly far away by the accident, which renders him the last known surviving.
Member of the human race He likes Indian food, especially chicken vindaloo, which is a recurring theme in the series.
Arnold Judas, Rimmer, Bsc, Ssc, Bronze, swimming certificate, and Silver swimming certificate played by Chris Barrie was the second lowest ranking member of the crew.
While they are all alive, He is a fussy, bureaucratic neurotic coward who, by failing to replace a drive plate properly, is responsible for the Red Dwarf cadmium II accident that kills the entire crew, including himself except Lister.
Nevertheless, Holly chose him to be the ship’s.
One available hologram because he considered him the person most likely to keep Lister sane During Series VII Rimmer leaves the dimension shared by his crewmates to become the new Ace Rimmer, Along with the Red Dwarf ship and its crew.
Rimmer is resurrected at the start of the Series. Viii by Nanobots He comes face to face with Death at the end of the series whom he kicks in the groin From the Back to Earth specials onwards, he is once again a hologram with no explanation as to whether he is the same hologram who left in Series VII or what happened to the human Rimmer from series VIII, The Cat played by Danny John Jules, is a humanoid creature who evolved from the offspring of Lister’s, smuggled pet cat.
Frankenstein Cat is concerned with little other than sleeping eating and fawning over his appearance and tends not to socialise with other members of the crew in early episodes.
He becomes more influenced by his human companions over time and begins to resemble a stylish self-centred human.
It is later revealed that, unlike his human companions, he has a cool-sounding pulse: six nipples and color-coordinated internal organs, Kryten’s full name, Kryten 2X4B 523P played by Robert Llewellyn from series III onwards, and as a one-off appearance in series II by David Ross was Rescued by the crew from the crashed spaceship Nova 5 in series II, upon which he had continued to serve the ship’s crew, despite their having been dead for thousands or even millions of years, Kryten is a Service Mechanoid and when first encountered by the crew, He was bound by his behavioral protocols, but Lister gradually encouraged him to break his programming and think for himself.
His change in appearance between the two actors is explained away by an accident involving Lister’s, spacebike and Lister having to repair him Holly played by Norman Lovett in series I II VIII and a guest appearance in each of series VII and XII and Hattie Hayridge.
In series III to V is the ship’s.
Computer Holly has a functional IQ of 6000, although this is severely depleted by the three million years of runtime and lack of repairs.
Holly is left alone after the radiation accident that kills Rimmer and the rest of the crew, except for Lister and the Cat.
The computer had developed computer senility before the radiation accident, rendering it functionally inert.
The change in appearance for series III is explained by Holly. Having changed his face to resemble that of a computer from a parallel universe with whom he’d, once fallen, madly in love, Kristine Kochanski, originally portrayed by Clare Grogan, before Chlo Annett, took on the role from series VII was initially a Red Dwarf navigation officer whom Lister had a crush on later retroactively altered to be his ex-girlfriend and whose memory he had cherished ever since.
In one episode, the crew happens upon an alternative dimension where Kochanski survived the Red Dwarf Cadmium II accident.
She joins Lister and the crew after the link to her dimension collapses In the first episode of The Red Dwarf Back to Earth.
Specials Lister believes her dead, but it is later revealed that Kryten, the sole witness to her death, had lied to Lister Kochanski and had instead fled the ship in a Blue Midget when it became clear.
Lister’s, complete lack of self-respect and indulgence in excesses was slowly killing him, which greatly depressed her Lister is advised by fans of the television series to find her in the next series and to make amends.
However, the character does not appear in any of the later series Production.
The first series aired on BBC2 in 1988, and 12 series have so far been produced with a 13th rumored to be planned for 2019 Concept and commission.
The concept for the show was originally developed from the sketch series Dave Hollins Space Cadet on the BBC.
Radio 4 shows Son of Clich in the mid-1980s written by Rob, Grant, and Doug Naylor.
Their influences came from films and television programs such as Star Trek, in 1966. Silent Running 1972, Alien 1979 Dark Star 1974, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 1981, but also had a large element of British style comedy and satire thrown into the mix, ultimately molded into the form of a sitcom.
Many visual and character elements bear similarities to the Trident nuclear submarine BBC documentary Defence of the Realm.
Having written the pilot script in 1983, the former Spitting Image writers pitched their unique concept to the BBC, but it was rejected on fears that a science fiction, sitcom would not be popular.
It was finally accepted by BBC North in 1986, a result of a spare budget.
Being assigned for a second series of Happy Families that would never arise and producer Paul Jackson,’s, insistence that Red Dwarf should be filmed instead, The show was lucky to be remounted.
After electricians,’ strike partway through rehearsals in early 1987 shut, the entire production down.
The title sequence was filmed in January 1987.
The filming was rescheduled for September and the pilot episode finally made it onto television screens on 15 February 1988 Alan Rickman and Alfred Molina auditioned for roles in the series with Molina being cast as Rimmer.
However, after Molina had difficulties with the concept of the series and his role in particular, the role was recast and filled by Chris Barrie, a professional voice, actor, and impressionist, who had previously worked with both the writers on Spitting Image and with the producers on Happy Families and Jasper Carrott productions, Craig Charles a Liverpudlian punk poet, was given the role of Dave Lister.
He was approached by the production team for his opinion about the Cat character. As they were concerned, it may be considered by people as racist Charles described Cat as 39.
Pretty cool 39, and after reading the script he decided he wanted to audition for the part of Dave.
Lister Laconic stand up.
Comedian, Norman Lovett, who had originally tried out for the role of Rimmer, was kept in the show as Holly the senile computer of the titular ship, A professional dancer and singer Danny John Jules arriving half an hour late for his appointment, stood out as the Cat immediately.
This was partly due to his cool exterior, dedicated research reading Desmond Morris Catwatching, and his showing up in character wearing his father’s, 1950s-style, zoot suit.
Writing producing and directing Grant and Naylor wrote the first six series together using the pseudonym Grant Naylor on the first two novels and later as the name of their production company, although never on the episodes themselves Grant left in 1995 to pursue other projects, leaving Naylor to Write series VII and VIII with a group of new writers, including Paul Alexander and actor Robert Llewellyn, who portrayed the character Kryten For the most part, Ed Bye, produced and directed the series He left before series V due to a scheduling clash.
He ended up directing a show starring his wife, Ruby Wax so Juliet May took over as director May parted ways with the show halfway through the series for personal and professional reasons, and Grant and Naylor took over the direction of the series.
In addition to writing and producing Series VI was directed by Andy de Emmony and Ed Bye returned to direct series VII and VIII Series.
I II and III were made by Paul Jackson Productions with subsequent series produced by the writers.’ own company Grant Naylor Productions for BBC North.
All eight series were broadcast on BBC Two. At the beginning of series IV production moved from BBC North’s New Broadcasting House in Manchester to Shepperton Theme, song, and music.
The theme tune and incidental music were written and performed by Howard Goodall, with the vocals on the closing theme tune by Jenna Russell.
The first two series used a relatively somber instrumental version of the closing theme for the opening titles from series III onwards.
This switched to a more upbeat version.
Goodall also wrote music for the show’s various songs, including Tongue, Tied with lyrics written by Grant and Naylor Danny John Jules credited as 39.
The Cats orchestrated and released Tongue Tied in October 1993.
It reached number 17 on the UK charts Goodall himself sang The Rimmer Song heard during the series VII episode Blue, to which Chris Barrie mimed Remastered In 1998, on the tenth anniversary of the show’s first airing and between the broadcast of series VII and VIII.
The first three series of Red Dwarf were remastered and released on VHS, The remastering included, replacing model shots with computer graphics, cutting certain dialogue and scenes filming Norman Lovett’s Holly footage creating a consistent set of opening titles, replacing music, and creating ambient sound effects.
With a digital master, The remastered series was released in a 4 disc, DVD boxset, The Bodysnatcher Collection in 2007, Hiatus Three years elapsed between series VI and VII, partly due to the dissolving of the Grant and Naylor partnership, but also due to cast and crew working on Other projects, When the series eventually returned it was filmized and no longer shot in front of a live audience allowing for greater use of four-walled sets location, shooting, and single camera techniques.
When the show returned for its eighth series, two years later, it had dropped. Use of the filmmaking process and return to using a live audience.
The show received a setback when the BBC rejected proposals for a series IX, Doug Naylor, confirmed in 2007 that the BBC decided not to renew the series as they preferred to work on other projects.
A short animated Christmas special was, however, made available to mobile phone subscribers the same year.
Ultimately, however, fans had to wait a decade before the series returned to television Revival Red Dwarf Back to Earth.
In 2008, a three-episode production was commissioned by the digital channel.
Dave Red Dwarf Back to Earth was broadcast over the Easter weekend of 2009, along with a making-of documentary.
The episode was set nine years after the events of Only the Good, with the cliffhanger ending of that episode left unresolved, a situation that would continue with Series X.
The storyline involves the characters arriving back on Earth circa 2009, only to find that they are characters in a TV show called Red Dwarf.
Kochanski is supposedly dead and Holly is offline.
Due to water damage caused by Lister. Leaving a Tap Running Actress, Sophie Winkleman played a character called Katerina.
A resurrected hologram of a Red, Dwarf science officer, intent on replacing Rimmer To achieve a more cinematic atmosphere Back to Earth was not filmed in front of a studio audience.
Some previous Red Dwarf episodes had been shot in that way.
Bodyswap and all of the seventh series, but Back to Earth represented the first time that a laughter track was not added before broadcast.
It was also the first episode of Red Dwarf to be filmed in high definition.
The specials were televised over three nights, starting on Friday, 10 April 2009.
The broadcasts received record ratings for Dave.
The first of the three episodes represented the UK’s highest ever viewing figures for a commissioned program on a digital network Back to Earth was released on DVD on 15 June 2009 and Blu-ray on 31 August 2009 Back to Earth was subsequently described on The series’ official website, as the ninth series,’ of Red Dwarf.
This placement was confirmed when Series X was commissioned and branded as the tenth series, although Back to Earth, continues not to be referred to as Series IX on home media or digital releases Red Dwarf X.
On 10 April 2011, Dave announced it had commissioned a six-episode Red Dwarf Series X to be broadcast on Dave in late 2012. Filming dates for the new series Red Dwarf X were announced on 11 November 2011, along with confirmation that the series would be shot at Shepperton Studios in front of an audience.
Principal filming began on 16 December 2011 and ended on 27 January 2012, and the cast and crew subsequently returned for six days of filming pick-ups Discounting guest stars.
Only the core cast of Charles Barrie Llewellyn and John Jules returned for Series X with Annett and Lovett.
Absent though, the scripts include references to Kochanski and Holly On 20 July 2012, a 55-second trailer for series X was released on Facebook, followed by a new teaser every Friday.
The new series debuted on Thursday, 4 October 2012, Red Dwarf XI and XII Following series X, which attracted high viewing figures, Dave Doug Naylor and the cast showed strong interest in making another series During the Dimension Jump fan convention.
In May 2013, Doug Naylor stated that discussions were ongoing with all involved parties, and while arrangements had not been finalized, he hoped shooting could begin.
In February 2014, In October 2013, Robert Llewellyn posted on his blog, stating that an eleventh series would happen and that it would be sometime in 2014, Llewellyn later removed.
The post from his blog and Doug Naylor issued a statement on Twitter saying Getting tweets claiming Red Dwarf XI is commissioned is not true Not yet.
However, in January 2014, Danny John Jules stated that the eleventh series of Red Dwarf was in the process of being written At the April 2014 Sci-Fi Scarborough Festival during the Red Dwarf cast panel, Danny John Jules stated that filming of the eleventh series would commence in October 2014, with an expected release of Autumn 2015 on Dave On 2 May 2015 at the Dimension Jump XVIII convention, Naylor announced that an eleventh and a twelfth series had been commissioned.
The two series would be shot back to back towards the end of 2015 for broadcast on Dave in 2016 and 2017 respectively and would be co-produced by Baby Cow Productions with company CEO, Henry Normal executive. Producing the new episodes Series, XI, and XII were filmed back to back at Pinewood Studios between November 2015 and March 2016.
The eleventh series premiered on UKTV’s, video on demand service UKTV, Play on 15 September 2016 a week ahead of its broadcast transmission on 22 September On 8 September 2017.
It was announced that Red Dwarf XII would begin broadcasting on Dave on 12 October 2017 and on 15 September 2017.
It was further announced that each episode would preview a week earlier via the UKTV Play video-on-demand service effectively, meaning that Series 12 would be starting on 5 October 2017, Red Dwarf XIII On 28 April 2018 at Thames Con Danny John Jules and Robert Llewellyn stated That a 13th series would be made in 2019.
It is once again expected to be produced for and shown on, the channel Dave, although this is yet to be confirmed.
Themes, Red Dwarf was founded on the standard sitcom focus of a disparate and frequently dysfunctional group of individuals living together in a restricted setting, With the main characters routinely displaying their cowardice, incompetence, and laziness while exchanging insulting and sarcastic dialogue.
The series provided a humorous antidote to the fearless and morally upright space explorers typically found in science fiction series, with its main characters, acting bravely only when there was no other possible alternative.
The increasing science fiction elements of the series were treated seriously by creators, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor Satire, parody, and drama were alternately woven into the episodes referencing other television series, films, and books.
These have included references to the likes of 2001, A Space Odyssey, 1968 Top Gun 1986 RoboCop 1987 Star Wars, 1977 Citizen, Kane, 1942, The Wild One 1953 High Noon 1952 Rebel Without a Cause; 1955 Casablanca, 1942, Easy Rider; 1969.
The Terminator 1984 Pride and Prejudice 1813 Isaac. Asimov’s Robot, Series, 1939, 1985 and Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The writers based the whole theme of some episodes on the plots of feature films.
The series III episode, Polymorph references and parodies key moments from Alien 1979 from series IV.
Camille echoes key scenes from Casablanca 1942, while Meltdown borrows the main plot from the Westworld 1973 series.
Ix Back to Earth was partially inspired by Blade Runner 1982.
The series’ themes are not limited to films or television.
Having also incorporated historical events and figures.
Religion also plays a part in the series, as a significant factor in the ultimate fate of the Cat race and the perception of Lister as their 39.
God, 39, both within the episode Waiting for God, whose title makes a literary reference to the Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot, as well as the crew meeting a man they believe to be Jesus Christ in series X, episode, Lemons.
The series VII episode – titled Ouroboros, derives its name and theme from the ancient mythological snake of the same name. The 3rd episode of series VI Gunmen of the Apocalypse was based on Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The series explores many science fiction, staples such as time travel paradoxes, including the grandfather paradox.
The question of determinism and free will on several episodes of The Pursuit of Happiness in Virtual Reality and, crucially, the show’s premise of Lister being the last human.
The near certainty of human extinction sometime in the far future Aliens do not feature in the series as Grant and Naylor decided very early in the process that they did not want aliens involved.
This is usually addressed with Rimmer’s, belief in extraterrestrial life being shot down, such as a vessel.
He believes it to be an alien ship, but it turns out to be a garbage pod.
However, there are nonhuman life forms, such as evolutions of Earth, species, e.g., the Cat race, robotic or holo life forms created by humans, and a kind of Genetically Engineered Life Form.
Artificially created creatures, Simulants, and GELFs frequently serve as antagonists.
Among the later series of the show Hallmarks, The series developed its distinct vocabulary, Words and phrases such as hologramatic sic, Dollarpound, Felis sapiens, Simulants GELF, space, weevil, and Zero Gee Football appear throughout the series highlighting a development in language, political, climate, technology, evolution and culture.
In the future, The creators also employed a vocabulary of fictional expletives to avoid using potentially offensive words in the show and to give nuance to futuristic, colloquial language in particular. Smeg and variants such as smegging, smegger and smeg.
The head features prominently alongside the terms gimboid and goit Episodes, Ratings, Red, Dwarf, VIII, Back to Earth, Red, Dwarf, X, Red Dwarf XI, Red Dwarf, XII, Reception and achievements, Critical reactions, The changes that were made to the series cast setting creative teams and even production values from Series to series have meant that opinions differ greatly between fans and critics as to the quality of certain series In the Great Red Dwarf Debate published in the volume, 2 issue, 3 of the Red Dwarf Smegazine science fiction, writers, Steve Lyons and Joe Nazzaro.
Both argued on the pros and cons of the early series against the later series Lyons stated that what the show once had was a unique balance of sci-fi comedy, which worked magnificently Nazarro, agreed that the first two series are very original and very funny, but went On to say that it wasn’t until series III that the show hit its stride Series VI is regarded as a continuation of the Monster of the week philosophy of series V, which was nevertheless considered to be visually.
Impressive Discussions revolve around the quality of series VI, seen by one reviewer, as just as good as the earlier series 39, but has been criticized by another reviewer as a descent into formulaic comedy with an unwelcome change of setting.
The changes seen in series VII were seen by some as a disappointment, while much slicker and higher budget in appearance the shift away from the outright sitcom and into something approaching comedy-drama was seen by one reviewer as a move in the wrong direction.
Furthermore, the attempt to shift back into the traditional sitcom format for series VIII was greeted with a similarly lukewarm response.
There was criticism aimed at the decision to resurrect the entire crew of Red Dwarf, as it was felt.
This detracted from the central premise of Lister being the last human being alive.
Other critics feel that series VII and VIII are no weaker than the earlier series.
However, the topic is the subject of constant fervent debate. Among the show’s fanbase Achievements, Although the pilot episode of the show gathered over four million viewers, viewing figures dipped in successive episodes and the first series had generally poor ratings Through to series VI, the ratings had steadily increased and peaked at over.
Six million viewers were achieved with the episode Gunmen of the Apocalypse When the series returned in 1999, it gained the highest audience figures.
Yet over eight million viewers tuned in for series VIII,’s opening episode Back in the Red Part.
, The series has won numerous awards, including the Royal Television Society Award for special effects.
The British Science Fiction award for Best Dramatic Presentation, as well as an International Emmy Award for series VI episode Gunmen of the Apocalypse which tied with an Fabulous episode Hospital in the Popular Arts category.
The show had also been nominated for the International Emmy Award in 1987, 1989 and 1992 Series VI won a British Comedy Award for Best BBC Comedy Series 39.
The video sales have won eight Gold Awards from the British Video Association and the series still holds the record for being BBC Two’s longest-running highest-rated sitcom.
In 2007, the series was voted ‘ Best Sci-Fi, Show Of All Time ‘ by the readers of Radio Times magazine.
Editor Gill Hudson stated that this result had surprised them as 39.
The series had not given any new episodes. This January 2017, Series XI was voted Best Returning TV Sitcom and Comedy of the Year for 2016 by readers of the British Comedy Guide A year later, Red Dwarf once again was voted Best Returning TV Sitcom for Series XII, retaining the title from British Comedy Guide, Spin, offs and merchandise, The show’s, logo and characters have appeared on a wide range of merchandise.
Red Dwarf has also been spun off in a variety of different media formats, For instance, the song Tongue, Tied featured in the Parallel Universe.
An episode of the show was released in 1993 as a single and became a top 20 UK hit for Danny John Jules.
Under the name 39.
The Cat’Stage plays of the show have been produced through Blak, Yak, a theatre group in Perth, Western Australia, which was permitted by Grant Naylor Productions to mount stage versions of certain episodes in 2002, 2004, and 2006 In October 2006, an Interactive Quiz DVD entitled Red Dwarf Beat The Geek was released, hosted by Norman Lovett and Hattie Hayridge, both reprising their roles as Holly In 2005, Grant Naylor Productions and Across the Pond, Comics collaborated to produce the spin off webcomic Red, Dwarf, Prelude to Nanarchy Novels Working together under the name Grant Naylor, the creators of the series collaboratively wrote two novels.
The first Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers was published in November 1989 and incorporates plot lines from several episodes of the show.’s.
First, two series: The second novel Better Than Life, followed in October 1990 and is largely based on the second series episode of the same name Together.
The two novels provide expanded, backstories and development of the series,’ principal characters, and themes.
The authors began work on a sequel to Better than Life called The Last Human, but Rob Grant was drawn away from Red Dwarf by an interest in other projects.
Still owing Penguin Publishing two more Red, Dwarf, novels, Grant and Naylor decided to each write an alternative sequel to Better than Life. Two completely different sequels were made as a result.
Each presenting a possible version of the story -‘s – continuation Last Human by Doug Naylor – adds Kochanski to the crew and places more emphasis on the science fiction and plot elements.
While Rob Grant’s.
Novel Backwards is more in keeping with the previous two novels and borrows more extensively from established television stories.
An omnibus edition of the first two novels was released in 1992, including edits to the original text and extra material, such as the original pilot script of the TV series.
All four novels have been released in audiobook format.
The first two were read by Chris Barrie Last Human read by Craig Charles and Backwards, read by author, Rob Grant In December 2009 Infinity Welcomes Careful.
Drivers was released in Germany with the title Roter Zwerg Red Dwarf in the German List of Red Dwarf Novels Home video releases.
For the initial release of the VHS editions, episodes of Red Dwarf were separated and two volumes were released for each series except series VII and VIII, which were released on three separate tapes, labelled’Byte, One’and’Byte Two’plus’Byte Three Series VII and VIII These videos were named after the first episode of the three presented on the tape, as was typical with other BBC video releases at the time, However, on occasions the BBC decided to ignore the original running order and use the most popular episodes from The series to maximize sales of the videos for series III, the first ever release Bodyswap and Timeslides – were swapped round so that the latter could receive top billing on the second VHS volume.
For the second VHS volume of the series, I Confidence and Paranoia was given top billing. Even though the original broadcast order was retained, this was due to the leading episode being Waiting for God, which shared its name with the title of another comedy series set in a retirement home, and for series V Back to Reality and Quarantine was given top billing on Their respective video release, which completely reorganized the order of episodes from that in which they were originally broadcast Future releases would increasingly observe authenticity with the original broadcast context.
All eight series were made available on VHS and three episodes of series VII were also released as special Xtended sic versions with extra scenes, including an original unbroadcast ending for the episode Tikka To Ride and no laugh track.
The remastered versions of series I III were also released individually and in a complete box set.
Finally, two outtake videos were released both hosted by Robert Llewellyn in character as Kryten Smeg Ups in 1994 and its sequel Smeg Outs in 1995 DVD releases.
The first eight series have since been released on DVD in Region 1, 2, and 4, each with a bonus disc of extra material, and each release from series III onwards is accompanied by an original documentary about the making of each respective series.
Regions 2 and 4 have also seen the release of two Just The Shows digipack boxsets, containing the episodes from the series.
I IV Volume 1 and V VIII Volume 2 with static menus and no extras Red Dwarf The Bodysnatcher Collection contains the 1998 remastered episodes, as well as new documentaries for the series.
I and II was released in 2007.
This release showcased a storyboard construction of Bodysnatcher, an unfinished script from 1987, which was finally completed in 2007 by Rob, Grant, and Doug Naylor who were working together for the first time since 1993.
In December 2008, an anniversary DVD set entitled Red Dwarf, All The Shows was released, reworking the vanilla, disc content of the two Just The Shows sets within A4 packaging resembling a photo album 39, which carefully omitted information that no extras were included. This box set was, released in a smaller slip case, sized box reverting to the Just the Shows title in November 2009.
The series is also available for download on iTunes Blu-ray releases In 2016, BBC Worldwide began creating an all-rested version of the first five series for release on Blu-ray due to demand from Japan.
When asked about the project in 2017, Doug Naylor confirmed he had stopped it due to lackluster picture quality By 2018.
The project now encompasses the entire original run that had been restarted and a Series 1 8 Blu-ray set release, was confirmed in August Magazine.
The Red Dwarf Magazine, the magazine, part of the title changed to Smegazine from issue 3, was launched in 1992 by Fleetway Editions.
It comprised a mix of news reviews, interviews, comic strips, and competitions.
The comic strips featured episodes, adaptations, and original material, including further stories of popular characters like Mr. Flibble, the Polymorph, and Ace Rimmer, Notably the comic strip stories, ‘holographic characters.
Predominately Rimmer was drawn in grayscale.
This was at the request of Grant and Naylor who had wanted to use the technique for the television series, but the process was deemed too expensive to produce.
Despite achieving circulation figures of over 40,000 per month, the magazine’s publisher decided to close the title down to concentrate on their other publications. A farewell issue was published cover dated January 1994 and featured the remaining interviews, features, and comic strips that were to feature in the following issues.
The Official Red Dwarf Fan Club produces a periodical magazine for members titled Back to Reality.
The previous volume of this magazine, dating back to the 1990s, was known as Better Than Life.
U S version Despite the original version having been broadcast on PBS, a pilot episode for an American version, known as Red Dwarf USA, was produced through Universal Studios to broadcast on NBC in 1992.
The show essentially followed the same story as the first episode of the original series using American actors for most of the main roles, Craig Bierko as Lister Chris Eigeman as Rimmer, and Hinton Battle.
As Cat Exceptions to this were Llewellyn, who reprised his role as Kryten, and the British actress Jane Leeves, who played Holly, It was written by Linwood, Boomer and directed by Jeffrey Melman, with Grant and Naylor onboard as creators and executive producers, Llewellyn Grant and Naylor travelled to America for the filming of the American pilot after production of the fifth series of the UK series.
According to Llewellyn and Naylor, the cast was not satisfied with Linwood Boomer’s, script Grant and Naylor rewrote the script, but although the cast preferred the rewrite, the script as filmed was closer to Boomer’s version.
The pilot episode includes footage from the UK series in its title sequence, although it did not retain the logo or the theme music of the UK series During the filming of the pilot.
The audience reaction was good and it was felt that the story had been well received.
The studio executives were not entirely happy with the pilot, especially the casting, but decided to give the project another chance with Grant and Naylor in charge. The intention was to shoot a promo video for the show in a small studio described by the writers, as a garage New cast members were hired for the roles of Cat now depicted as female, and Rimmer Terry Farrell and Anthony Fusco respectively.
This meant that, unlike the original British series, the cast was all Caucasian which Charles referred to as White Dwarf.
Chris Barrie was asked to play Rimmer in the second pilot, but he declined because of a small budget and deadline.
New scenes were quickly shot and mixed in with existing footage of the pilot and UK series V episodes to give an idea of the basic plot and character dynamics alongside proposed future episodes.
Remakes of episodes from the original show Llewellyn did not participate in the re-shoot, though clips from the British version were used to show the character.
Despite the re, shoots, and casting the option on the pilot was not picked up.
Farrell found work almost immediately afterward with Star Trek Deep Space, Nine in which she was cast as Jadzia Dax.
Similarly, one year later, Jane Leeves was cast in Frasier as Daphne Moon.
The cast of both the British and American versions criticized the casting of Red Dwarf USA, particularly the part of Lister, who is portrayed in the British version as a likable slob.
But the U.S. version is somewhat clean cut In the 2004 documentary Dwarfing USA. Danny John Jules said the only actor who could have successfully portrayed an American Lister was John Belushi.
In a 2009 interview on Kevin Pollak’s, Chat, Show Bierko said that casting him as Lister was a huge mistake and also said a John Belushi type would have been better suited to the role.
The American pilot has been heavily bootlegged, but it has never been broadcast on TV in any country.
Excerpts from the first pilot are included in Dwarfing USA, a featurette on the making of the pilots included on the DVD release of Red Dwarf’s fifth series.
Because of rights clearance issues, no footage from the second pilot is included in the featurette Red Dwarf The Movie.
Since the end of the eighth series in 1999, Doug Naylor has been attempting to make a feature-length version of the show.
A final draft of the script was written by Naylor and flyers began circulating on certain websites.
The flyer was genuine and had been distributed by Winchester Films to market the film overseas Plot details were included as part of the teaser It was set in the distant future.
Where Homo sapiens, a race of cyborgs, had taken over the solar system and were wiping out the human race Spaceships that tried to escape Earth were hunted down until only one remained Red.
Dwarf Naylor had scouted Australia to get an idea of locations and finance costs with pre-production beginning in 2004, and filming planned for 2005 Costumes were made, including Kryten’s, and A list of celebrity cameos, including Madonna, was announced. However, finding sufficient funding has been difficult.
Naylor explained at a Red, Dwarf, Dimension, Jump convention that the film had been rejected by the BBC and the British Film Council Reasons given for the rejections were that, while the script was considered to be funny, it was not ready In 2012 material from early drafts.
Of the film was incorporated into the Series X finale The Beginning In 2018, Naylor suggested production of the movie was still under consideration.
The order will probably be another TV series, a stage show, and possibly a movie, and I think the guys agree on that.
The film is a long shot at this point just because it can take so long to get funding.
Roleplaying game, Deep7, Press, formerly Deep7 LLC released Red Dwarf The Roleplaying Game in February 2003.
Although the printed copyright is 2002 Based on the series, the game allows its players to portray original characters within the Red Dwarf universe Player characters can be human survivors, holograms, evolved houses, pets, cats, dogs, iguanas, rabbits, rats and mice.
Various types of mechanoid Series – 4000, Hudzen, 10 and Waxdroids in the corebook Series – 3000 in the Extra Bits Book or GELFs Kinatawowi and Pleasure GELF in the corebook Vindaloovians.
In the Extra Bits Book, A total of three products were released for the game.
The core 176-page rulebook the AI Screen analogous to the Game: Master’s Screen used in other role-playing games, also features the Extra Bits Book booklet and the Series Sourcebook. The Series Sourcebook contains plot summaries of each episode from the series.
I VIII as well as game rules for all major and minor characters from each series.
The game has been praised for staying true to the comedic nature of the series for its entertaining writing and for the detail to which the background material is explained.
However, some reviewers found the game mechanics to be simplistic and uninspiring compared to other science fiction.
Roleplaying games on the market Red Dwarf Night On 14 February 1998.
The night before the tenth anniversary of the show’s pilot episode, BBC Two devoted an evening of programs to the series under the banner of Red Dwarf Night.
The evening consisted of a mixture of new and existing material and was introduced and linked by actor and fan Patrick Stewart.
In addition, a series of special take-offs on BBC Two, idents featuring the 2 logos falling in love with a shutter, were used.
The night began with Can’t Smeg Won’t Smeg.
A spoof of the cookery program Can’t Cook Won’t Cook presented by that show’s host Ainsley Harriott, who had himself appeared as a GELF in the series VI episode, Emohawk Polymorph II, Taking place outside the continuity of the series, two teams Kryten And Lister versus Rimmer and Cat, although Cat quickly departs to be replaced by alter ego, Duane Dibbley were challenged to make the best chicken vindaloo After a compilation bloopers show featuring out takes the next program was Universe Challenge a spoof of University Challenge Hosted by original University Challenge presenter Bamber Gascoigne, the show had a team of knowledgeable Dwarf fans competes against a team consisting of Chris Barrie Craig Charles Robert Llewellyn, Chlo Annett, and Danny John Jules. This was followed by The Red Dwarf A Z, a half-hour documentary that chose a different aspect of the show to focus on for each letter of the alphabet.
Talking heads on the episode included Stephen Hawking, Terry Pratchett, original producer, Paul Jackson, Mr Blobby Patrick Stewart, and a Dalek.
Finally, the night ended with a showing of the episode Gunmen of the Apocalypse Dave Hollins Space Cadet Red Dwarf was originally based on Dave, Hollins Space Cadet.
A series of five sketches that aired in the BBC Radio 4 series, Son of Clich produced by Rob, Grant, and Doug Naylor in 1984, The sketches recounted the adventures of Dave Hollins voiced by Nick Wilton, a hapless space traveler who is marooned in space far from earth.
His only steady companion is the computer Hab voiced by Chris Barrie Grant and Naylor chose to use the Dave Hollins Space Cadet sketches as a base for a television show.
After watching the 1974 film Dark Star, They changed some elements from the sketches.
The 7 trillion years.
The figure was first changed to 7 billion years and then to 3 million and the characters of Arnold Rimmer and the Cat were created.
The name Dave Hollins was changed to Dave Lister when a football player called Dave, Hollins became well-known and Hab was replaced by Holly.
One of the voice actors from Son of Clich Chris Barrie went on to portray Arnold Rimmer in the Red Dwarf TV series. Episodes of Dave Hollins can be found on the 2 disc Red Dwarf DVD sets, starting with series 5 and ending with series 8 See.
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