Red Dwarf
Three million years after the demise of humanity, third technician Dave Lister awakes aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf. Sentenced to a period of suspended animation for smuggling his pet cat on board, he is joined by just four fellow survivors: second technician Arnold J Rimmer, a sneering-yet-inept hologram based on his one-time superior; Holly, a ship's computer reduced to near-senility by eons adrift in space; a humanoid descendant of the cat obsessed with fashion and fish; and Kryten, a salvaged android programmed to serve his useless companions. Together, this bickering band must come to terms with an existence which, in terms of productivity and purpose, isn't that far removed from its old one.
On the mining ship Red Dwarf, slobbish slacker Dave Lister dreams of a life in Fiji away from his annoying bunkmate Arnold Rimmer. When he's placed in suspended animation, he wakes up 3 million years later to find the entire crew are dead.
Holly navigates Red Dwarf during light speed. But when Red Dwarf goes through light speed 24-hours early, the crew witnesses strange events and they find they are witnessing "Future Echoes" images of events that will happen in the future.
Lister wants to go on a date with the hologram of navigation officer Kristine Kochanski, much to Rimmer's disapproval. Lister decides to do a cooking exam so he can outrank Rimmer. But Rimmer has a cunning plan.
Lister learns he is the mythical god of Cat's people known as "Cloister the stupid" and Red Dwarf stumbles upon a Red Dwarf garbage capsule and Rimmer thinks it's a stasis capsule carrying a dormant alien woman.
Lister falls ill after entering a contaminated area of Red Dwarf trying to find Kochanski's hologram disc which Rimmer has hidden. But Red Dwarf has two unwelcome guests on-board, Lister's Confidence and Paranoia.
Rimmer moves into his new sleeping quarters with his holographic duplicate. Lister watches Rimmer's video containing footage of Rimmer's death, the two Rimmers start getting into a fight and Lister decides one of them has to be switched off.
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Chris Barrie | Rimmer |
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Danny John-Jules | Cat |
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Craig Charles | Lister |
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Norman Lovett | Holly |
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Tony Hawks | Dispensing Machine |
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Mark Williams | Petersen |
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Mac McDonald | Captain Hollister |
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Paul Bradley | Chen |
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Rupert Bates | Trout a la Creme |
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Clare Grogan | Kochanski |
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Nigel Peever | Crewman |
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David Gillespie | Selby |
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John Lenahan | Toaster |
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Craig Ferguson | Confidence |
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Robert Bathurst | Todhunter |
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Lee Cornes | Paranoia |
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Noel Coleman | Cat Priest |
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Johnny Barrs | Extra |
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Debbie King | Extra |
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Peter Ingham | Crewman |
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Stephen Holt | Extra |
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Robert McCulley | McIntyre |
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Glyn Williams | Extra |
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Stephen Meredith | Extra |
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Beverley Isherwood | Extra |
| Director | Ed Bye |
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| Writer | Rob Grant, Doug Naylor | |
| Producer | Ed Bye, Paul Jackson | |
| Musician | Howard Goodall | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Distributor | BBC Warner |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Feb 25, 2003 |
| Regions | Region 1 |