I have been watching all the Red Dwarf series of late and thought I would write my own review. This is a sitcom set in space on a mining ship called Red Dwarf which is drifting in deep space, 3 million years in the future. It has a few main characters: Dave Lister - the only surviving human in the universe. He is a slob but he likes to do the right thing and be honourable when he can. Arnold Judus Rimmer - a hologram of a dead crew mate of Lister's. He is there to keep him company and make sure he doesn't go crazy. He doesn't do a very good job. The Cat - a creature who evolved from Lister's cat. Krytan - a toilet cleaning robot Holly - ...  Read the complete review

I got this box set for Christmas, after dropping several hints in the run up to the festive season. I was dropping hints because I view Red Dwarf as some of the finest British comedy around, and a show that takes me back to my youth / teen years and this box set contains all the shows from the very beginning (where Dave Lister awakens to find he is the last human alive, with only a hologram of his dead room mate and a cat for company) to the last series (excluding the much heralded but not very funny add on specials). Eight series in all. The discs come packaged in a large binder size black box. It's probably a bit bigger than A4, and a ...  Read the complete review

Red Dwarf is one of the best and most acclaimed British comedy shows to ever grace our screens, standing up there with indisputable classics like Fawlty Towers. It has likeable, memorable characters and numerous classic episodes. The main character is Dave Lister (Craig Charles), the final living man in the world, who was put into stasis when everyone else aboard the ship he was on, Red Dwarf, was killed by an undisclosed catastrophe. He is left alone with the ship's computer, Holly (Norman Lovett), who claims to have an IQ of 6000 but is surprisingly dim if that is true. However, to ensure that he maintains his sanity, Holly also resurrects a hologam of one ...  Read the complete review