Red Dwarf

First broadcast in 1988. It starredCraig Charles (Dave Lister) , Chris Barrie (Arnold Rimmer) , Danny John-Jules (Cat) .It rapidly become BBC2's biggest comedy export and developed a national and international cult following.

The show was and written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor (Spitting Image), The story followed: the crew of a 21st-century deep-space mining ship, the Red Dwarf, were alll - bar one - wiped out following a radiation leak. The sole survivor is David Lister, who wasin suspended animation for 18 months as punishment for smuggling aboard a pet pregnant cat! Lister remains in stasis for three million years, and when he awakes uphe has company: a hologram of his former shift leader Rimmer, the shipboard computer Holly, and 'Cat' a strange human-like creature who turns out to have evolved, over the past three million years, from the pregnant moggy.. They become involved in strange variety of adventures.

Vulgar, occasionally crude but always witty, the dialogue more than matched the crazy plots - Arnold Rimmer was a whiny self-centred hologram Lister was an everyman with a 'laddish' outlook on life; Cat was a fashion victim who often displayed aspects of his feline past; the admirable Kryten was an android servant who, like Jeeves, often operated beyond the call of duty but who, unlike Wodehouse's creation, often dropped his masters into difficulties rather than saving them. T

The seventh series followed a gap of three years; Chris Barrie announced that he had taken Rimmer as far as he wanted and amicably left the show, bowing out in the episode aired on 14 February 1997 . But Barrie was back for the eighth and final series, in which our heroes were held prisoner on board a reconstructed version of the original Red Dwarf, in which the original long-dead crew had also been resurrected.

 

 

 

L-R Some of the regular cast