Red Dwarf
- TV sitcom
- Dave / BBC Two
- 1988 - 2020
- 74 episodes (12 series)
Science fiction sitcom based in space. The crew aboard the damaged mining spaceship Red Dwarf are doomed to drift in space for the rest of eternity. Stars Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett and more.
- Series VII, Episode 1 repeated Monday at 12:55am on Dave
- Streaming rank this week: 212
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Series I, Episode 1 - The End
Further details
Having been locked in stasis - a state of suspended animation that not even time can affect - as punishment for smuggling his pet cat Frankenstein aboard the mining vessel Red Dwarf, the interstellar space ship on which he works, Dave Lister is incredulous to discover he is the last surviving human.
Originally sentenced to an 18-month freezing whilst the ship returned to Earth, Lister is woken by ship's computer Holly and informed that whilst he was locked away the rest of the crew died. It transpires that without Lister's help his immediate superior and begrudging work-mate Arnold Rimmer was unable to properly fix a drive plate, leading to a lethal dose of cadmium II to leak throughout the ship and turn the crew to neat piles of dust.
But there's a worse surprise to come for Lister: Holly reveals he had kept him in stasis not for the mere moment it felt like; not even for the 18 months of his sentence; but for some 3,000,000 years whilst the radiation from the cadmium leak died down to a safe background level. In the meantime, if it hasn't died out completely, the rest of the human race must have evolved far beyond Lister's feeble imagination.
However, he's not entirely alone. Rimmer has been brought back as a hologram. There's also Cat, a creature evolved from Frankenstein, who was hidden and sealed away in the hold by Lister before his suspension - and Holly itself, the ship's emotionally unstable and somewhat mentally challenged computer, charged with attempting to get them back home...
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 15th February 1988
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Date | Time | Channel |
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Saturday 7th January 2012 | 12:40pm | Dave |
Saturday 7th January 2012 | 6:20pm | Dave |
Wednesday 23rd May 2012 | 6:40pm | Dave |
Wednesday 23rd May 2012 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Sunday 30th September 2012 | 11:00am | Dave |
Saturday 5th January 2013 | 10:00am | Dave |
Friday 29th March 2013 | 1:00pm | Dave |
Saturday 30th March 2013 | 9:00am | Dave |
Saturday 7th September 2013 | 11:40pm | Dave |
Sunday 8th September 2013 | 12:20am | Dave |
Sunday 8th September 2013 | 2:00pm | Dave |
Sunday 5th January 2014 | 11:00am | Dave |
Sunday 5th January 2014 | 6:00pm | Dave |
Friday 18th April 2014 | 1:40am | Dave |
Friday 18th April 2014 | 11:00am | Dave |
Saturday 15th November 2014 | 3:00pm | Dave |
Tuesday 14th April 2015 | 12:20am | Dave |
Saturday 2nd May 2015 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Monday 6th July 2015 | 10:20pm | Gold |
Tuesday 7th July 2015 | 1:00pm | Gold |
Sunday 4th October 2015 | 11:00pm | Dave |
Sunday 6th March 2016 | 4:00pm | Dave |
Monday 13th June 2016 | 11:35pm | Gold |
Tuesday 14th June 2016 | 2:35am | Gold |
Monday 29th August 2016 | 2:00am | Dave |
Tuesday 6th June 2017 | 2:35am | Dave |
Monday 9th January 2023 | 12:00am | Dave |
Saturday 18th February 2023 | 2:00pm | Dave |
Monday 19th June 2023 | 12:40am | Dave |
Friday 25th August 2023 | 10:00pm | BBC2 |
Cast & crew
Chris Barrie | Rimmer |
Craig Charles | Lister |
Danny John-Jules | Cat |
Norman Lovett | Holly |
Clare Grogan (as C P Grogan) | Kochanski |
Mac McDonald | Captain Hollister |
Robert Bathurst | Todhunter |
Paul Bradley | Chen |
David Gillespie | Selby |
Robert McCulley | McIntyre |
Mark Williams | Peterson |
Doug Naylor | Writer |
Rob Grant | Writer |
Ed Bye | Director |
Ed Bye | Producer |
Paul Jackson | Executive Producer |
Ed Wooden | Editor |
Paul Montague | Production Designer |
Howard Goodall | Composer |