Red Dwarf: Series 1
starring: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Bathurst, Paul Bradley
directed by: Ed Bye
directed by: Ed Bye
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790761923
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790761920
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 25, 2003
Running Time: 176 minutes
Sales Rank: 4977
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 1989
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Boldly going where no one in their right mind would ever go, this popular cult sci-fi spoof takes you on a joyride three million years into the future. Those ubiquitous anti-heroes of space travel - Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten - are coming to DVD for the first time ever!
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Notoriously, and entirely appropriately, the original outline for Doug Naylor and Rob Grant's comedy sci-fi series Red Dwarf was sketched on the back of a beer mat. When it finally appeared on British television in 1988, the show had clearly stayed true to its roots, mixing jokes about excessive curry consumption with affectionate parodies of classic sci-fi. Indeed, one of the show's most endearing and enduring features is its obvious respect for genre conventions, even as it gleefully subverts them. The scenario owes something to Douglas Adams's satirical Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, something to The Odd Couple, and a lot more to the slacker sci-fi of John Carpenter's Dark Star. Behind the crew's constant bickering there lurks an impending sense that life, the universe, and everything are all someone's idea of a terrible joke.
Later seasons broadened the show's horizons until at last its premise was so diluted as to be unrecognizable, but in the six episodes of the first season, the comedy is witty and intimate, focusing on characters and not special effects. Slob Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is the last human alive after a radiation leak wipes out the crew of the vast mining vessel Red Dwarf (Episode 1, 'The End'). He bums around the spaceship with the perpetually uptight and annoyed hologram of his dead bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie, the show's greatest comedy asset), and a creature evolved from a cat (dapper Danny John Jules). They are guided rather haphazardly by Holly, the worryingly thick main computer (lugubrious Norman Lovett). --Mark Walker
Average Rating: 
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- BrilliantThis series is brilliant. The concept of the series is hillarious in itself. Dave Lister (Craig ... Read More
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- Red Dwarf: Series 1My daughter ordered this as a surprise for her boyfriend. It arrived so quickly and he was beyond ... Read More
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- Doesn't Time Fly When you're Trapped in Deep Space, Three Million years into the Future?Alright; maybe series 1 and 2 of Red Dwarf weren't the peak of the show, as far as writing,and all ... Read More
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- Agreeing with MinorityJust one word - horrible. I just do not understand what is funny about this show and how it is popular. ... Read More
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- The first is best.The first season/series is best. If you like British silly sci-fi comedy, you will love this series! The ... Read More
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