Red Dwarf Reviews

Info ----- Red dwarf was a program aired on BBC two for a whole 8 series during the years 1988-99. There was a special one new episode, aired on dave, in 2008 which showed the characters 10 years on. It is full of big name actors such as Danny John Jules, Craig Charles and David Llywellen. ...  Read the complete review

Red Dwarf is, in my opinion, on of the greatest sitcoms ever made. Featuring an extremely likable and talented cast, with some of the funniest, but intelligently written storylines, the show has left its mark on both sitcom and sci fi history. The story is basically about the last man in the universe, Dave Lister (Craig Charles). ...  Read the complete review

Ref Dwarf is a classic British TV Sit - Com. It ran for 8 seasons in it's original format although recently a 3 part special was made. More episodes may follow. The series tells the story of Dave Lister (Craig Charles). He is a vending machine repairman on a space vessel in the future. After breaking the ships rules by bringing aboard ...  Read the complete review

Background A British Sci-fi, space comedy, the series originated in 1988 and was written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor. Grant left the series in 1995 leaving Naylor to co produce the last three series with various other writers including Paul Alexander and the actor who played Kryten (Robert Llewellyn). The series received ...  Read the complete review

Originally pitched to the BBC as 'Steptoe and Son in Space', Red Dwarf is a sci-fi sitcom based around Dave Lister (Craig Charles), the last human being alive, who has ended up countless light-years from home and 3 million years in the future after the vast-city-sized mining ship he was aboard (Red Dwarf) was rocked by a nuclear explosion that ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time there was a 16 year old boy, now this boy had suffered a very bad day at school. He went to bed at 9.00 amongst his Dr Who books and teenage angst and watched something incredible on TV. It's like you know when something really special is being born, a feeling of discovery. A slice of something really good, you feel you have ...  Read the complete review

'No sir, it's a chicken' One of the best opening lines to a series, the opening to a tv sitcom that would run for 8 sreries and peak at series 4/5, a series about the last human being on earth, his cat, his hologromatic superior, a computer and eventually an android whos job it is to do chores for his owners. This tv series ...  Read the complete review

Red Dwarf was a classic sci-fi sitcom that originally aired on BBC2 during the nineties and was penned by the writing combination of Grant and Naylor. It lasted for eight series and finally ended due in part to the breakdown of the writing partnership that spawned it, the slow decline in quality of the scripts and shows, the slow drop-off of ...  Read the complete review

Red Dwarf is a comedy show that used to be shown on BBC2 and I have heard that it may be making a bit of a come back, for now you can catch repeats on cable comedy channels although you do have to hunt them out a bit. The main character is Lister played by Coronation Street star Craig Charles, he awakes after a frozen sleep to find his ...  Read the complete review

When this first came out I was not really a fan of it and often would pass over it in favour of other comedy programmes however recently I thought I would give it another chance and while I find the TV show funny it failed to really engage me which suggests that this is not a comedy that you can grow into so maybe it is one for the less mature ...  Read the complete review

WHAT IS IT ABOUT: A sci-fi comedy based on the adventures of a group aboard the space-ship Red Dwarf: two humans, a robot and an evolved cat. The show is a character driven comedy that uses sci-fi purely as a back-drop. There were eight seasons between the late eighties and nineties. WAS IT ANY GOOD: Ask me the above question ...  Read the complete review

Red Dwarf.... ah that's the sound of my childhood. All together now: It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere... Ahem. Red Dwarf was a British TV comedy series which aired between 1988 and 1999 on BBC2; it was the brainchild of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, (who credited themselves as Grant Naylor). The central premise ...  Read the complete review

This is one of my favourite comedy shows it set in the future aboard a mining vessel called Red Dwarf. It is based around 4 central characters after a radiation leak killings the rest of the crew, leaving Lister a slob, Rimmer a hologram, Cat a decent of a housecat and Kryton a humanoid android. Three million years after the ...  Read the complete review

Red Dwarf was a British cult TV sci-fi sitcom that ran from 1988 to 1999, making stars of its cast and featuring the spaceship Red Dwarf experiencing a radiation leak, leaving Dave Lister (Craig Charles) as its only surviving crew member. Surviving along with him is his pregnant cat. The ship's computer, Holly, is forced to put Dave in stasis ...  Read the complete review

I'm a huge fan of Red Dwarf and have been ever since it first aired back in the late eighties. It was cheesy and low budget yes - but it was funny! I still find it funny today when I watch the DVDs of it. For those of you who don't know, Red Dwarf is a sci-fi space comedy series that was filmed in the eighties and nineties. It's all about a ...  Read the complete review

Red Dwarf. Smoke me a kipper; I'll be back for Breakfast. Synopsis: Dave Lister is stuck on Mimas and he just wants to get home to Earth, so he enlists aboard the Red Dwarf little realising it will not reach earth for another 5 years. Dave smuggles a cat aboard the ship but is found out and put into ...  Read the complete review

Created by Rob Grant, Grant Nayler and Doug Nayler. Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett, Hattie Hayridge, Chloe Annet and Robert Llenwellyn. Red Dwarf was first aired on the BBC in 1988 and ran until 1999, showing 52 episodes with-in 8 series. The series starts showing Red Dwarf as a ...  Read the complete review

What the smeg is Red Dwarf? =================== Once upon a time, a new space comedy with a small budget and even smaller cast sailed out over BBC 2. That comedy was Red Dwarf and it grew up to be a huge cult smash hit. Throughout the mid nineties, the show grew and grew and more people began to use the phrases and quote the lines at ...  Read the complete review

red dwarf - Advantages: great writing, doesn't take itself seriously, well suited actors - Disadvantages: continuity errors, delay of film

Red Dwarf is a Sci-Fi comedy for those who like Sci-fi and also those who do not, surprisingly! I have converted friends who took one look and said 'Nooooo, Sci-Fi?...Boring!' So there is no excuse to borrow your friends/siblings/cousins/video library copy and start now Of course the best way to start watching a series you have ...  Read the complete review