| The Jupiter Mining space ship 'Red Dwarf' is on its way home. Dave Lister has smuggled a cat onboard the ship which results in an accident causing the deaths of everyone onboard except him. Holly, the ships computer had put Lister into suspended animation then wakes him once the radiation has gone. Holly is able to keep a hologram copy of the last person to die. Unfortunately for Lister, the last person to die was his irritating room-mate Rimmer. The third member of the team is Cat, a person who has evolved from the cat that caused the accident. In the second series, the team are joined by Kryten, a robot who was left alone in a shipwreck. In later episodes, Rimmer leaves the series to become Ace Rimmer to venture into space. His place is taken by Kristine Kochanski, the woman Lister fancied before the accident. In the last series, Rimmer returns to the series just as the Red Dwarf which they had lost is remade by nanotechnology. During their time the Red Dwarf is lost, they travel the galaxy in the exploration craft referred to a starbug. A particular episode of interest is 'Parallel Universe", they are transported to the place of the title, where they meet the female equivalents of themselves. They find that Nell Armstrong was the first person to step on the moon amongst other things. Most devastating is news that Cat's equivalent is a Dog not a female Cat. The last television series sees the Red Dwarf along with the crew reappearing. The movie of the series is currently in production. |
