Red Dwarf
- TV sitcom
- U&Dave / BBC Two
- 1988 - 2020
- 74 episodes (13 series)
Science fiction sitcom based in space. The crew aboard the damaged mining spaceship Red Dwarf are doomed to drift in space for the rest of eternity. Stars Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett and more.
- Due to return for Untitled three-part special
- Series IV, Episode 2 repeated Friday at 10pm on BBC2
Streaming rank this week: 195
Press clippings Page 37
Few sitcoms sustain their initial wit and sharpness beyond two or three series, but sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf - back on BBC2 for its sixth run - defies the ravages of time with the same non-chalance displayed last night by its chief slob-in-space Lister (Craig Charles).
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 8th October 1993Red Dwarf (BBC2), now in its fourth orbit, told the touching love story of Kryton, a mechanoid who looks like a giant, half-chewed, rubber-tipped pencil and Camille, a green blob who looks like something that's dropped out of the Sphinx's nose. As this is how their colleagues describe them, you can see that what the crew lack in charm they make up in candour.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 15th February 1991Immediately following this was the comforting Red Dwarf (BBC2), a space fantasy in which the spaceship's computer is not only visibly human but in a steady state of gloom, terror and self-doubt: "I can't do it. I can't cope. Me bottle's gone. I fort I could navigate at the light speed but I just can't wrap me 'ead around it. Gordon Bennett, that was a close one."
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 23rd February 1988