Okay, where shall I start...well, this program is smegging hilarious! I would recommend this to EVERYONE. Not just Sci-Fi fans - everyone.

Dave Lister is a scouser slob who sneaks a pet cat called Frankenstein on board the mining ship Red Dwarf. There are 167 people on the ship and Lister ranks 167. His drinking buddies are Chen, Selby and Petersen (funny quote from Series VIII: "This is Chen, he works in the kitchen and he's always drunk and this is Selby and he's always drunk too. Where's Petersen?" "He's can't come. He's drunk."*)

Arnold Rimmer is a smeghead who fails at everything - he took the astro-navigation exam nine times! He's Lister's bunkmate, which is hell for Rimmer. He's filed 247 complaints against Lister - that's 123 counts of insulting a superior technician, 39 counts of dereliction of duty, 84 counts of general insubordination, and one count of mutiny (Lister stood on his toe). Rimmer is a chicken soup machine repair man - the lowest rank of Red Dwarf. Even the guy who changes the bog roll is higher than him!

The Cat is a creature evolved from Lister's pet cat. He loves himself, women and his suits. The best character, IMO. "Ooow! I'm lookin' dan-ger-ous!"

Kryten is a mechanoid. He first appeared in Series Two and was last seen on Lister's space-bike looking for a planet with an atmosphere so he can have a garden. But now...he's back! And one of the best Red Dwarf characters ever.

RED DWARF III:
The Saga Continues
The Story So Far...


Three million years in the future, Dave Lister, the last human being alive, discovers he is pregnant after a liaison with his female self in a parallel universe. His pregnancy concludes with the successful delivery of twin boys, Jim and Bexley. However, the boys were conceived in another universe, with different physical laws, they suffer from highly accelerated growth rates and are born eighteen years old within three days of being born. In order to save their lives, Lister returns them to the universe of their origin, where they are reunited with their father (a woman), and are able to lead comparatively normal lives. Well, as normal as you can be if you've been born in a parallel universe and you're father's a woman and your mother's a man and you're eighteen years old three days after your birth.
Shortly afterward, Kryten, the service mechanoid, who had left the ship after being rescued from his own crashed vessel, the Nova 5, is found in pieces after his space bike crashed into an asteroid. Lister rebuilds the 'noid, but is unable to recapture his former personality. Meanwhile, Holly, the increasingly erratic computer, performs a head sex change operation on himself. He bases his new face on Hilly, a female computer with whom he'd once fallen madly in love.

The Saga Continues...

RED DWARF III

The Same Generation

(nearly)

Episode One: Backwards - Rimmer takes Kryten on a driving test and get sucked into a Time Hole, a orangey wormhole thing that takes you back or forwards through time. They soon find themselves on earth where time runs backwards - Holly explains, "Everything starts with a Big Bang, right? And the universe starts expanding. Eventually, when it's expanded as far as it can, there's a big crunch, right? And everything starts contracting. Perfectly possible that time starts running in the opposite direction, as well."

Lister and the Cat notice that Kryten and Rimmer are gone so they go and look for them. They also find the Time Hole and Lister realizes that Rimmer and Kryten must have gone through it (very lucky guess, don't you think? What if they hadn't!) Soon they find themselves on the Backwards Earth and discover that Rimmer and Kryten become famous as the "Reverse Brothers" (talking, eating, drinking, etc. in forwards, which is backwards to the people of Backworld). Best bit? The backwards pub fight!

Episode Two: Marooned - Ah, I love this episode. Holly finds 5 black holes so the red Dwarf crew have to evacuate - Cat and Kryten fly away in Blue Midget while Lister and Rimmer get away in Starbug.

Starbug gets hit by a meteor and crashes on an ice planet and the only food left is a tin of dog-food and a Pot Noodle. Since Lister can't stand Pot Noodles, he has to make a sacrifice - but much more later he'll have to make another to keep himself warm...

Episode Three: Polymorph - a creature that can change shape and takes away your emotions is on Red Dwarf.
First it transforms into Lister's worse fear - snakes. Then the polymorph sucks Lister's fear out of him. Lister is now fearless and suicidal. The remaining members of the crew go and hunt down the polymorph but lose their emotions also - Rimmer has no anger, Cat has no vanity and Kryten has no guilt. The Red Dwarf crew then discuss on how they should destroy the creature without their emotions, which is the best part of the entire episode:
RIMMER: Look, just because it's an armour-plated alien killing machine that salivates unspeakable slobber, doesn't mean it's a bad person. What we've got to do is get round a table, and put together a solution package - perhaps over tea and biscuits.
KRYTEN: Look at him! You can't trust his opinion - he's got no anger. He's a total dork!
RIMMER: Good point, Kryten. Let's take that on board, shall we? Erm, David? David, do you have anything you want to bring to this forum?
LISTER: Well, yes, I have, actually, Arnold. Why don't we go to the ammunition store, get the nuclear warheads and then strap them to my head? I'll nuke the smegger to an oblivion!
RIMMER: Right, well, that's very nice, David. Let's put that on the back burner, shall we? Erm, Cat, let's have your contribution...come on.
CAT: Hey, don't ask my opinion - I'm nobody. Just pretend I'm not here.

I would recommend this to everyone!

Recommended:
Yes

Viewing Format: VHS
Video Occasion: Better than Watching TV
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children Age 13 and Older