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 is abducted by the high IQ crew of the holoship Enlightenment, who have abandoned love in favour of daily sex. Wishing to join the crew and leave the Red Dwarf behind, Rimmer must engage in a battle of wits to earn his place.
The red dwarf crew encounter the inquisitor, a mechanical lifeform who has made himself judge, jury and executioner of all of humanity throughout history. If he decides your life hasn't been worthy enough you are erased and replaced. Bad luck for the dwarfers.
Lister, Kryten, Cat and Holly head for an artificial moon, where Rimmer has been kidnapped, only to find the artificial moon is Rimmer's mind.
At a research complex on an ice planet, the crew find the hologram of Dr. Lanstrom who has been infected with a holo virus that turned her mad. Back on the Red Dwarf the crew are subjected to quarantine by Rimmer who's also been infected.
An experiment with a machine that can make duplicates of an object goes wrong and Red Dwarf explodes. Where the Red Dwarf crew find the machine has made two copies of Red Dwarf, both ships contains their good and evil selves.
When investigating an ocean ship, The Esperanto, the crew are attacked by a Despair Squid and awake to find they are entirely different people who have been playing the game "Red Dwarf" for the last four years. Is this truly their reality?
|
Chris Barrie | Rimmer |
|
Danny John-Jules | Cat |
|
Robert Llewellyn | Kryten |
|
Craig Charles | Lister |
|
Hattie Hayridge | Holly |
|
Tim Yeates | Deck Sergeant Sam Murray |
|
Marie McCarthy | Nurse |
|
Timothy Spall | Andy |
|
Carl Chase | Old Lister |
|
Jane Horrocks | Commander Nirvanah Crane |
|
Matthew Marsh | Captain Hercule Platini |
|
John Sharian | New Lister |
|
Anastasia Hille | New Kochanski |
|
Maggie Steed | Dr. Hildegarde Lanstrom |
|
Simon Paisley Day | Commander Randy Navarro - Number Two |
|
Bill Weston | Stuntman |
|
Jake Abraham | Second Lister |
|
Lenny von Dohlen | Cop |
|
Jim Dowdall | Stuntman |
|
Paul Heasman | Stuntman |
|
Lucy Briers | Harrison |
|
Don Warrington | Commander Binks |
|
Kate Robbins | Woman in Film |
|
Nick Hobbs | Stuntman |
|
Sara Stockbridge | Handmaiden |
| Director | Rob Grant |
|
| Juliet May |
|
|
| Doug Naylor |
|
|
| Writer | Rob Grant, Doug Naylor | |
| Producer | Hilary Bevan Jones, Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, Julian Scott | |
| Musician | Howard Goodall | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
|---|---|
| Nr Discs | 2 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Stereo [English] |
| Distributor | BBC Warner |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Mar 15, 2005 |
| Regions | Region 1 |