Red Dwarf: Series VII

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

After a temporary bout of deadness, the Dwarfers find themselves solving one of the biggest conspiracy plots of all time, before Ace Rimmer drops in with the challenge of Rimmer's life. Meanwhile, Kryten gets seriously tetchy and Lister has one of the hottest screen kisses ever. Pity it's not with the girl of his dreams. Pity it's not with a girl.

Includes the episodes:
Tikka to Ride*
Stoke Me a Clipper
Ouroboros*
Duct Soup*
Blue
Beyond a Joke
Epideme
Nanarchy*
*Also includes special extended version

Chris Barrie, who plays the maddeningly officious Rimmer in Red Dwarf, shows a different side of his personality as Lara Croft's steadfast butler Hillary in the Tomb Raider films.

When the generator and its back-up go down in the middle of the night, the crew has to crawl through the mile-long labyrinth of service ducts to restart their engines. On their journey they discover a few surprising things about one another - including what Lister once did on top of a crate of canned asparagus. Meanwhile when two realities converge, the Dwarfers undergo their most terrifying ordeal yet - they bump into a real, live human woman who's attractive and nice.

TIKKA TO RIDE - The crew are dead, slain by their future selves in the cliff-hanger that ended series VI. But coming back from the dead is a piece of cake compared to the real dilemma confronting Lister. His curry supplies have been destroyed and he's 3 million light years from the nearest Indian food. Lister ignores causality and goes back in time intending to order "500 vindaloos to go" but winds up in Dallas in November, 1963 where he accidentally pushes a gunman out of a fifth floor window.

STOKE ME A CLIPPER - Rimmer's dashing alter ego, Ace Rimmer, arrives on Starbug terminally wounded. He asks Rimmer to take his place as the swashbuckling Guardian of the Universe. Rimmer however is too busy cataloguing his shoe collection. Can Ace make Rimmer understand the importance of his offer and is Rimmer really up to the task? Rimmer confides in Lister, the only other member of the crew who knows Ace is dying. With his help Rimmer nervously takes his leave of Starbug to "do good".

OUROBOROS - When two realities converge, the Red Dwarf crew undergo their most terrifying ordeal yet. They bump into a real, live, human woman, who is none other than Lister's ex-girlfriend, Kristine Kochanski. Lister is excited at the prospect of their reunion. Kryten immediately goes into jealousy overload mode, convinced she'll steal Lister away from him and starts plotting her immediate return to her own dimension. Kochanski is only too happy to get back to her own Universe if she can.

DUCT SOUP - When the generator and its back up go down in the middle of the night, the crew have to crawl through the two mile-long labyrinth of service ducts to restart the engines. Of course, if Kryten had not fooled with the over-ride to deprive Kristine of a warm bath, they would all be safe and sound in their quarters. On their journey through the innards of the ship, the crew discover a few surprising things about one another.

BLUE - The Cat and Kryten are extremely worried about Lister when he admits he really misses Rimmer, especially since Lister reminisces about good times they did not have. Ace Rimmer even pops in on a surprise dream visit to Lister. Kryten, determined to put an end to this nonsense, takes action and devises a therapy which should make Lister see sense. The crew embark on Kryten's specially constructed virtual reality program called, the Rimmer Life Experience.

BEYOND A JOKE - In an attempt to overcome his extreme jealousy of Lister's desires for Kochanski, Kryten has made a wonderful dinner. No one seems too keen to eat as all they want to do is try out the new virtual reality program. Kryten has other plans and soon manages to draw them back to the eating table. But when enough is enough, Kryten's head circuits overload and the crew need to find some much needed replacements. During their encounter with an alien ship, Kryten discovers he has a brother and learns the terrible secret of his origin.

EPIDEME (Part one of a two part story line) - While checking out a lifeless vessel, the crew find a female human body encased in ice and emitting very faint life signs. When her body comes to life in the middle of the night and snogs Lister before collapsing, it appears the only life signs the crew had really registered had been those of the virus inside her body, the virus which is now happily consuming Lister. How can they avoid this plague? Kochanski comes up with a rather extreme plan of action.

NANARCHY (Part two of a two part story line) - Lister is extremely depressed after his ordeal with the epideme virus and the crew become increasingly concerned for his welfare. Kryten believes his missing Nanites may be able to help, if they can find Red Dwarf. When they find a planet emitting strange signals, they go down to investigate. As bizarre as it seems, their sensors indicate this planet is Red Dwarf. If they can find the Nanites, perhaps they can return to things to normal and perhaps Lister will find the solution to his own problem.

CAST
Dave Lister.................................................Craig Charles
Arnold Rimmer............................................Chris Barrie
Cat.............................................................Danny John-Jules
Holly...........................................................Norman Lovett
Kryten.........................................................Robert Llewellyn
Kochanski....................................................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

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