Back during my grade school years, my friends (all two of them) and I discovered a science fiction BBC Britcom via the wonders of Public Television. It was entitled Red Dwarf, and it soon became one of my all-time favorite British television series. The premise (inspired by classic sci-fi films like Silent Running, Alien, and Blade Runner) featured a complete slob of a man named Dave Lister (Craig Charles) — an incompetent, low-level technician aboard a massive mining ship called the Red Dwarf. Sentenced to six months in suspended animation for smuggling an unquarantined (pregnant) cat onboard the massive, city-sized ship, Dave is released one day only to learn that the entire ship’s crew was killed in a radiation leak — three million years ago — leaving him the last human being in the universe (presumably).
Archive for 24 October, 2009
*Blu-ray Review* Red Dwarf: Back To Earth
Posted: 24 October, 2009 in TVTags: Blade Runner, Britcom, British, Chloë Annett, Chris Barrie, Comedy, Coronation Street, Craig Charles, Cult, Danny John-Jules, Red Dwarf, Red Dwarf: Back To Earth, Robert Llewellyn, Science Fiction, series, smeg-ups, spoof, TV
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