Red Dwarf: Series III & IV

Get ready for more crazy antics and wild chaos from outer space with the crew of the mining ship Red Dwarf! With more elaborate sets and special effects, this cult favorite just keeps getting better. Female droids, unidentified objects, white holes and a giant waxoid theme park add to the zany fun of the popular sci-fi series.

"The BBC series which turned science fiction inside out and introduced the word 'smeg' to everyday vocabulary." - Independant

Series 3
In Series Three, the crew runs amok through history, blithely ignoring the consequences of causality. Meanwhile as Red Dwarf heads on a collision course towards a minefield of Black Holes, the crew is forced to abandon ship. Lister finds himself marooned on an arctic moon with Rimmer and only a tin of dog food between him and starvation.

Series 4
The fourth series of this critically acclaimed intergalactic comedy. In a universe almost identical to our own, another Rimmer exists. A test pilot in the Space Corps, he is charming, popular, brave and modest. After his test craft breaks the speed of reality, he finds himself face to face with his counterpart aboard Red Dwarf. Meanwhile the crew locks on to an unidentified craft containing the ultimate genetic engineering technology - a machine that can transform any living thing into any other living thing, by re-writing its DNA. A blessing or a curse?

 

SERIES 3
BACKWARDS - The Red Dwarf crew return to Earth to find Time is running backwards. They all become in a huge, backwards barroom brawl, complete with chairs un-smashing over heads.

MAROONED - Marooned - As Red Dwarf heads on a collision course towards a minefield of Black Holes, the crew is forced to abandon ship. Lister is marooned on an arctic moon with Rimmer and only a pot noodle and a tin of dog food between him and starvation.

POLYMORPH - A horrific genetic mutant which salivates unspeakable slobber gets loose aboard Red Dwarf, and the nightmare begins. The crew is subjected to 24 hours of non- stop horror in a gruesome, petrifying comedy blood-feast.

BODYSWAP - A scutter goes beserk and rewires all the ship's circuitry. When Lister orders a chocolate bar from one of the snack dispensers, he accidentally triggers the ship's self-destruct sequence.

TIMESLIDES - When Kryten discovers some mutated developing fluid, which prints photographs the crew can walk into, they find they are able to change their pasts. They run amok through history ignoring the consequences of causality.

THE LAST DAY - Kryten discovers his built-in expiration date is almost up and he has less than twenty-four hours to live. The crew are determined to give the mechanoid the best night of his life.

SERIES 4
CAMILLE - Kryten rescues a female droid, Camille, from a crashed vessel. She's a 4000 series just like him, only a GTi model with realistic toes and a slide back sunroof head. Kryten finds himself falling in advanced mutual compatibility.

DNA - The crew lock on to an unidentified craft containing the ultimate genetic engineering technology. It is a machine that can transform any living thing into any other living thing by re-writing its DNA.

JUSTICE - The crew discover Justice World, an abandoned penal colony equipped with a "justice field" which inflicts the consequences of a crime on its perpetrator. The innocent have nothing to fear. Rimmer is in big trouble.

WHITE HOLE - Holly regains her genius level IQ, but for reasons best known to herself powers down the ship, leaving the crew drifting helplessly towards a White Hole. Will Rimmer sacrifice his hologramatic life to save the rest of the crew?

DIMENSION JUMP - -In a universe almost identical to our own, another Arnold Rimmer exists. He is charming, popular, brave and modest. After his test craft breaks the speed of reality, he finds himself face to face with his counterpart aboard Red Dwarf.

MELTDOWN - A matter transporter whisks the crew to Waxworld - a giant theme park, where the waxdroids are running amok. Hitler, Caligula, and the Boston Strangler lead an army of darkness against the forces of Elvis, Gandhi and Stan Laurel.

CAST
Dave Lister.................................................Craig Charles
Arnold Rimmer............................................Chris Barrie
Cat.............................................................Danny John-Jules
Holly; Series 1,2,7.....................................Norman Lovett
Holly; Series 3-5..........................................Hattie Hayridge
Kryten.........................................................Robert Llewellyn
Kochanski; Series 1-6.................................Claire Grogan
Kochanski; Series 7...................................Chloe Annett
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Written by Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander, Kim Fuller, Robert Llewellyn, J Hendrie
Directed by Ed Bye, Juliet May
Produced by Ed Bye, Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, Juliet May and Andy de Emmony

British Comedy Awards®
1994 – Best BBC Comedy Series
International Emmy Awards®
1994 – Popular Arts

 

“...the cult television series exerts a mysterious hold over half the student population of the Western hemisphere.” -_The Times
“...the BBC series which turned science fiction inside out and introduced the word ‘smeg’ to the everyday vocabulary of pre-teenagers.”- Independent
“...back to its very best... This eighth series has lived up to expectations, taking the familiar characters into new situations and proving as inventive as any of the past series. Excellent fun... and not just for smegheads.”- Morning Star
“The original concept owed everything to Douglas Adams, but the style is now its own, playing wantonly with the laws of astrophysics and mixing oneliners with parody, witty allusions, farce, slapstick and groansome puns. Non-stop fun for little boys from seven to 77.” -The Times
“Scripts take laughter-raising only so far.The character chemistry of Craig Charles, Robert Llewellyn, Danny John-Jules and (especially) Chris Barrie does the rest.”- Daily Mail
“...laugh-a-minute lunacy from outer space ... You can tell the quality of a sitcom by the calibre of its guests. Geraldine McEwan popped up...” -Mirror
“As quirky as ever.” -Sydney Morning Herald

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