Smegtastic
johntoon
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Red Dwarf
Recommended up till Series 7. The show survived for so long by changing, so gaining Kryten and a new Holly in Series 3 wasn't a problem, and losing the ship in Series 6 pushed things in an interesting new direction, but what happened next - losing Rimmer, gaining Kochanski from a parallel universe, then getting the ship and the entire original crew back - was just a step too far. Between Series 6 and 7 they lost half the writing team as well, and the scripts took a turn for the worse. The first episode of Series 7 - "Tikka to Ride" - is the last good one. Watch no further.
I was twelve, and a school friend told me about it. He was excited because the second series had just started - he tried to explain the show to me, without much success. I persuaded my parents to put the show on that week, and together we watched "Better Than Life". My dad and I immediately became fans.
The original opening theme was brilliant, so atmospheric. The sudden change from melancholic existential sitcom to colourful, brash sci-fi knockabout in Series 3 came as a surprise, but we were soon won over. Years later I met my partner, also a fan, and the Series 5 episode "Quarantine" has since become "our episode", with Rimmer in a gingham dress and Mr Flibble the psychotic glove puppet. We quote this one quite a lot.
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