Red Dwarf - Series 4 (DVD)

Still three million years into deep space, Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is still the last human alive, together with his shipmates, an onboard computer Holly, (Hattie Hayridge) a hologram of his dead bunkmate, Rimmer (Chris Barrie), a life form that evolved from his pet cat, known simply as The Cat (Danny John-Jules) and a service-droid called Kryten (Robert Llewellyn). Having started afresh in Series Three, writers Doug Naylor and Rob Grant (or Grant Naylor) continued to improve their unique and brilliant comedic exploits in Series Four. Having reached its forth series, Red Dwarf had secured its place as a success. The BBC was therefore willing to spend a ...  Read the complete review

I've been really getting into Red Dwarf recently and have watched the previous three series with great enjoyment. It's been a while since I've seen them, so its been like watching them again for the first time and laughing at all the classic jokes. The first two series were good introductory vehicles for the characters of Lister, Rimmer and the Cat played by Craig Charles, Chris Barrie and Danny John Jules. In series three they were joined by Robert Llewellyn who played the fussy mechanoid Kryten. Series Four picks up almost straight after the end of series three with very little visual changes. The style of the episodes are similar, but now the characters are ...  Read the complete review

Writers: Rob Grant and Doug Naylor Director: Ed Bye Starring: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Hattie Hayridge and Robert Llewellyn. This fourth series was first aired on the BBC in 1991 and continued to follow the now famous and much loved characters on the doomed Mining ship 'Red Dwarf'. As this series was about to air it came across a few little hurdles, forcing a few episodes to be postponed, for instance, 'Dimension Jumper' and 'Meltdown' were set aback due to the Gulf War, therefore the opening episode became 'Camille', which when first aired coincided with valentines day, (which was nice and romantic for Kryten anyway). ...  Read the complete review

"3 Million years from Earth... the mining ship, Red Dwarf... It's crew: Dave Lister, the last human being alive. Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of his dead bunk-mate, and a creature who evolved from the ship's cat..." From this simple beginning, the boys from the Dwarf tickle the imagination, tease smiles forth on the gloomiest of days, and taunt the most reluctant viewer into rollicking laughter at someone else's expense. Let the adventures begin! Season four of BBC's delightful Red Dwarf is when the show finally found it's rhythm, stopped pulling sudden unexplained cast shifts, and got it's feet firmly planted. In the season's opener, we ...  Read the complete review

One of the most successful and long-running programmes to come out of BBC 2 is the sci-fi comedy series, Red Dwarf. Now moderately well-known internationally, and with promises of an eventual feature film always seeming just over the horizon, Red Dwarf?s entire run is currently being released on BBC DVD in the UK, America and Australia. RED DWARF: WHAT IS IT? Astronomer and xylophone enthusiast Patrick Moore would tell you that a red dwarf is a form of aged star towards the red end of the ...  Read the complete review