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What's it all about?
History
Cast
Why we love it
Red Dwarf is one of the most popular shows ever broadcast on BBC TWO.
From the outset, the writers took hold of the staples of science fiction and gave them a good shake.You might expect rogue robots, body swapping and quantum leaping in any SF genre show, but never before have the heroes been so unheroic. Or, as Lister so memorably put it, "Don't give me the Star Trek crap. It's too early in the morning".
The loving parody of science fiction might have attracted a core following but Red Dwarf is much, much bigger than the sum of its gadgets and spaceships.
No sitcom works without memorable, well-played characters, and that’s what you get in Red Dwarf. In particular, the relationship between Lister, (a loveable, hygienically-challenged Everyman) and Rimmer (self-loathing personified) is brilliantly written and performed.
If you love Red Dwarf, we thoroughly recommend that you fly your craft to the BBC Cult site, where there are a whole load of good things relating to Star Trek, Buffy, Doctor Who and classic TV.
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