PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Red Dwarf is an enormous spaceship, mining around the moons of Saturn with a crew of 169 members. Before the end of the first episode, 168 of them are dead, wiped out by massive radiation leak, and it's all downhill from here on…

The rest of the series takes place three million years into the future, as the ship meanders along, lost in the heart of deep space. The sole surviving member of the whole human race is Lister, inventor of the fried-egg-and-chilli-pickle sandwich and most likely the scruffiest, smelliest individual ever to grace the universe. Fortunately, for the sake of what little sanity he possesses, he is not entirely alone -- although he would probably prefer to be.

Holly, the ship's computer (who undergoes a sex change between the second and third series), can sustain just one hologram. Perversely, with the cream of the dead space crew to choose from, Holly has selected Rimmer, Lister's former bunkmate and a total smeghead whose incompetence was responsible for the accident that killed everyone in the first place. (Rimmer's the idiot with the goalpost on his forehead.)

Then there's Cat, a cool creature with a supercool wardrobe, the result of three million years of feline evolution, a descendent of the pet Lister smuggled aboard.

And finally, picked up on one of their adventures, there's Kryten, a deranged, square-headed android whose sole function in life is to serve. Kryten is probably the only reason Red Dwarf hasn't been declared a "no-go" area by the Space Sanitary Department.

CAST
Craig Charles (as Dave Lister)
Chris Barrie (as Arnold Rimmer)
Danny John-Jules (as Cat)
Norman Lovett (as Holly; Series 1,2,7)
Hattie Hayridge (as Holly; Series 3-5)
Robert Llewellyn (as Kryten)
Claire Grogan (as Kochanski; Series 1-6)
Chloe Annett (as Kochanski; Series 7)

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Written by Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, Paul Alexander, Kim Fuller, Robert Llewellyn, J Hendrie
Directed by Ed Bye, Juliet May
Produced by Ed Bye, Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, Juliet May and Andy de Emmony

DURATION
52 x 30' & 4 specials