Red Dwarf: Series V

Female droids...evil doppelgangers...and a cactus in a very private place! The slobbiest, most wacked-out bunch of spacebums ever to set foot in an alternate reality is back for more crazy antics and outer-space chaos. Join the crew of the mining ship Red Dwarf and prepare for interstellar laughs in this wildly zany BBC sci-fi comedy series.
Red Dwarf is an enormous spaceship, mining around the moons of Saturn with a crew of 169 members. Before the end of the first episode, 168 of them are dead, wiped out by massive radiation leak, and it's all downhill from here on...
The rest of the series takes place three million years into the future, as the ship meanders along, lost in the heart of deep space. The sole surviving member of the whole human race is Lister, inventor of the fried-egg-and-chilli-pickle sandwich and most likely the scruffiest, smelliest individual ever to grace the universe. Fortunately, for the sake of what little sanity he possesses, he is not entirely alone -- although he would probably prefer to be.
Holly, the ship's computer (who undergoes a sex change between the second and third series), can sustain just one hologram. Perversely, with the cream of the dead space crew to choose from, Holly has selected Rimmer, Lister's former bunkmate and a total smeghead whose incompetence was responsible for the accident that killed everyone in the first place. (Rimmer's the idiot with the goalpost on his forehead.)
Then there's Cat, a cool creature with a supercool wardrobe, the result of three million years of feline evolution, a descendent of the pet Lister smuggled aboard.
And finally, picked up on one of their adventures, there's Kryten, a deranged, square-headed android whose sole function in life is to serve. Kryten is probably the only reason Red Dwarf hasn't been declared a "no-go" area by the Space Sanitary Department.

 

HOLOSHIP - Rimmer is transported from Red Dwarf to the advanced holoship, Enlightenment. Everything he has ever dreamed exists on this ship - even a woman who has fallen in love with him!

THE INQUISITOR - A rogue droid who has survived at the end of time has concluded there is no God or purpose in the universe. His self appointed task is to roam through time weeding out the wastrels. Is that Red Dwarf he has spotted?

TERRORFORM - The crew have landed by mistake on a Psi-moon, a planet that becomes the inner workings of the mind that has landed on it. They are forced to battle against the workings of Rimmer's self-loathing subconscious.

QUARANTINE - After an encounter with an insane and very dangerous hologram at a viral research center, Rimmer forces the crew to spend twelve weeks in quarantine. But who is watching the watcher?

DEMONS AND ANGELS - A duplicating experiment leaves Red Dwarf exploded into millions of pieces and two new duplicated Red Dwarfs. One contains all that is good in the universe. And the other?

BACK TO REALITY - The crew make some startling discoveries. Rimmer and Lister are in fact brothers. Kryten is a half-human cop. Cat wears anoraks and is named Duane Dibley. Can this be reality or just a ghastly nightmare?

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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