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Boldly going where no one in their right mind would ever go,
this popular cult sci-fi spoof takes you on a joyride three million years into
the future. Those ubiquitous anti-heroes of space travel - Lister, Rimmer, Cat
and Kryten - are coming to DVD for the first time ever! Notoriously, and entirely appropriately, the original outline
for Doug Naylor and Rob Grant's comedy sci-fi series Red Dwarf was
sketched on the back of a beer mat. When it finally appeared on British
television in 1988, the show had clearly stayed true to its roots, mixing jokes
about excessive curry consumption with affectionate parodies of classic sci-fi.
Indeed, one of the show's most endearing and enduring features is its obvious
respect for genre conventions, even as it gleefully subverts them. The scenario
owes something to Douglas Adams's satirical Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy, something to The Odd Couple, and a lot more to the slacker
sci-fi of John Carpenter's Dark Star. Behind the crew's constant
bickering there lurks an impending sense that life, the universe and everything
are all someone's idea of a terrible joke.
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