Cult sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf is set on a mining spaceship of the same name, three million years after radiation killed most of the crew.<\/p>\n

Key characters include Holly, the computer, Dave Lister, the sole human survivor, Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister’s former superior; and The Cat, the last of a humanoid race evolved from Lister’s cat.<\/p>\n

Series 1 to 8 are available in a DVD boxset now. Here are some funny moments from Red Dwarf:<\/p>\n

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• Rimmer: According to the log we’re down to our last 3000 vomit bags. It’ll never be enough.<\/li>\n
• Holly: Emergency. Emergency. There’s an emergency going on. It’s still going on. It’s still an emergency. This is an emergency announcement.<\/li>\n
• Kryten: I owe Mr.Lister everything sir, if it wasn’t for him, I’d be normal.<\/li>\n
• Lister: Don’t give me any of that ‘Star Trek’ crap. It’s too early in the morning.<\/li>\n
• Rimmer: Death? It’s like being on holiday with a group of Germans.<\/li>\n
• Holly: As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you’ve got to laugh, haven’t you?<\/li>\n
• Rimmer: Well, when it’s not serious when your genitals can go wandering off on their own, I wonder what is.<\/li>\n
• Lister: This is crazy! Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone….she’ll never leave Fred and we know it.<\/li>\n
• Kryten: Pub: ah, yes, a meeting place where people attempt to reach advanced states of mental incompetence by the repeated consumption of fermented vegetable drinks.<\/li>\n
• Lister: Hey guys, look at me body.
  \nCat: Now there is an invitation that will NOT cause a stampede.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  More About Red Dwarf<\/strong>
  \nRed Dwarf was created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor and ran for eight series from 1988 to 1999, revived in 2009 as three-part comedy-drama Back to Earth, for digital channel Dave.<\/p>\n

  It may use a sci-fi pastiche as its backdrop, but Red Dwarf is above all a character-driven comedy, with off-the-wall, often scatological science fiction elements used as complementary plot devices. And it follows the standard sitcom premise of a disparate, dysfunctional group of people thrown together in a restricted setting.<\/p>\n

  In earlier episodes, a frequent source of humour was the relationship between the two main characters, low-ranking technician Lister (Craig Charles)<\/em> and Rimmer (Chris Barrie)<\/em>. The pair dislike each other intensely, yet are trapped together in space. As well as Holly and Cat, other regular characters included, from series 3, Kryten, a service mechanoid; and, as of Series 7, Kristine Kochanski, originally portrayed by Clare Grogan, an alternative-reality version of Lister’s long-lost love.<\/p>\n

  In 2007 the series was voted ‘Best Sci-Fi show\u2019 by readers of Radio Times, while the sixth series took a British Comedy Award. Red Dwarf remains BBC2\u2019s longest-running, highest-ranking sitcom.<\/p>\n

  Craig Charles and Chris Barrie have said fresh episodes are being produced, with filming beginning next year. But the Red Dwarf website says nothing has yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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