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.
As Rimmer is taking Kryten for a driving lesson in Starbug they find themselves being whisked away through a time hole and end up on Earth, where time is running backwards.
The Red Dwarf crew abandons ship as Red Dwarf approaches black holes. Rimmer and Lister find themselves marooned on a ice planet, when Starbug is struck by a meteorite, where the only firewood is Rimmer's possessions and the only food they have is dog food and a pot noodle.
The Red Dwarf crew encounter the Polymorph, a genetically engineered space mutant that drains the emotions from humans, that has arrived on-board Red Dwarf.
Red Dwarf becomes a booby-trap when Lister activates the self-destruct, which turns out to be the vending machine and Lister is implanted with the mind of one of the dead crew members and Rimmer believes it's the perfect way to help Lister get fit.
The developing fluid that Kryten uses to process old photographs mutates and the photographs come alive. The Red Dwarf crew find they can go into the photograph, and Lister finds that the photographs allows them to go back in time and he plans on changing history so that he doesn't end up marooned in deep space.
The crew receive a message from Kryten's manufacturer saying that he must be dismantled within 24 hours, at which time a more advanced mechanoid will arrive to replace him. Lister, Cat, Rimmer and Holly decided to throw Kryten a leaving party and give him one last night to remember.
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Chris Barrie | Rimmer |
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Danny John-Jules | Cat |
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Robert Llewellyn | Kryten |
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Craig Charles | Lister |
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Hattie Hayridge | Holly |
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Mike Agnew | Pub Extra |
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Simon Gaffney | Young Rimmer |
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Adolf Hitler | Self |
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Frances Barber | Genny |
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Lia Williams | Carol Brown |
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Keith Buckley | Announcer |
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David Lovgren | Bar patron |
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Robert Addie | Gilbert |
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Gordon Kennedy | Hudzen |
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Rupert Bates | Bodyguard |
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Pauline Melville | Barmaid |
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Ruby Wax | Blaize Falconberger |
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Tony Hawks | Compere |
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Maria Friedman | Waitress |
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Richard Hainsworth | Bodyguard |
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Kevin Clinton | Butler |
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Kalli Greenwood | Mrs. Rimmer |
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Arthur Smith | Pub Manager |
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Maxine Barrie | Pub Extra |
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Terry Cundall | Pub Patron |
| Director | Ed Bye |
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| Writer | Rob Grant, Doug Naylor | |
| Producer | Gilly Archer, Ed Bye, Rob Grant, Paul Jackson, Doug Naylor | |
| Musician | Howard Goodall | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] |
| Distributor | BBC Warner |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Feb 03, 2004 |
| Regions | Region 1 |