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.
Rimmer and Kryten rescue Camille, a female android from a passenger ship that has crash landed. Kryten falls in love with Camille, only to learn Camille is not who she appears to be, and finds she can shape-shift into Kochanski, a female Rimmer and the Cat.
The Red Dwarf crew investigates a alien spaceship that is drifting in deep space. Where they discover a D.N.A modifier, a genetic altering machine that alters all organic life. But all havoc breaks loose, when Lister gets turned into a chicken, a hamster, Kryten becomes a human male and they create a curry monster from Lister's curry.
The Red Dwarf crew pick up an escape pod containing either prison guard Barbra Bellini or a dangerous Simulant convict. They transport the pod back to Justice World where Rimmer finds himself put on trial for past crimes long forgotten.
After repairing Talkie Toaster, Kryten has the idea to restore Holly's 6,000 IQ at the cost of reducing her lifespan but she instead gains an IQ of 12,000. Meanwhile the Red Dwarf hurtles towards a white hole, the opposite of a black hole.
Rimmer catches the crew going on a fishing trip without him, forcing them to reluctantly bring him along. However, Starbug collides with the ship of Ace Rimmer, a more popular and successful version of Rimmer from an alternate universe.
When Kryten finds a matter paddle on the Red Dwarf, the crew decide to test it out and end up on Waxworld, an enormous waxdroid theme park where waxdroids modelled after history's most famous heroes and villains are at war with each other.
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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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Alan Riley | Technician |
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Richard Ridings | D.N.A. Ship Computer |
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Jack Klaff | Abraham Lincoln |
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Nicholas Ball | Simulant |
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Roger Blake | Noel Coward |
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Rupert Bates | Hector Blob |
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Kevin O'Brien | Hell's Angel |
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David Ross | Talkie Toaster |
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Kenneth Hadley | Hitler |
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Tony Hawks | Caligula |
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Derek Lyons | Technician |
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Hetty Baynes | Cockpit Computer |
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James Smillie | Justice Computer |
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Michael Burrell | Pope Gregory |
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Francesca Folan | Hologram Camille |
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Simon Gaffney | Young Rimmer |
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Kalli Greenwood | Mrs. Rimmer |
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Stephen Tiller | Pythagoras |
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Martin Friend | Einstein |
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Sam Avent | Father Christmas |
| Director | Ed Bye |
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| Paul Jackson |
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| Writer | Rob Grant, Doug Naylor | |
| Producer | Ed Bye, Rob Grant, Candida Julian-Jones, 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 Home Video |
| Edition Release Date | Feb 03, 2004 |
| Regions | Region 1 |