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Red Dwarf: Series 1 | 
 enlarge | Director: Ed Bye
Actors: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-jules, Robert Bathurst, Paul Bradley
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 28856
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 2
Running Time: 176
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: WARDE1587D
ISBN: 0790761920
UPC: 794051158727
EAN: 9780790761923
ASIN: B00007AP31
Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 1989
Release Date: February 25, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/02/2006 Run time: 176 minutes Rating: Nr
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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. Later seasons broadened the show's horizons until at last its premise was so diluted as to be unrecognizable, but in the six episodes of the first season, the comedy is witty and intimate, focusing on characters and not special effects. Slob Dave Lister (Craig Charles) is the last human alive after a radiation leak wipes out the crew of the vast mining vessel Red Dwarf (Episode 1, "The End"). He bums around the spaceship with the perpetually uptight and annoyed hologram of his dead bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie, the show's greatest comedy asset), and a creature evolved from a cat (dapper Danny John Jules). They are guided rather haphazardly by Holly, the worryingly thick main computer (lugubrious Norman Lovett). --Mark Walker
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 The British version December 17, 2008
Red Dwarf: Series 1
The DVDs are the British version of the show, so they're slightly different than the American version. However, that didn't detract at all. I thoroughly enjoyed the shows and the bonus material.
Brilliant September 23, 2008
This series is brilliant. The concept of the series is hillarious in itself. Dave Lister (Craig Charles), the last human being alive, stranded 3 million years into deep space, accompanied only by a computer generated hologram simulation of his dead bunk mate, Arnold J Rimmer (Chris Barrie) who he hates with a passion, a creature who evolved from his cat (Danny John-Jules), on a mining ship piloted by a computer with senile dementia, Holly (Norman Lovett).
Apparently, the writers wanted experienced actors for the series. After many auditions, what they ended up with was a poet (Craig Charles), an impressionist (Chris Barrie), a dancer (Danny John-Jules) and a stand up comic (Norman Lovett), who had little, if any, experience in acting.
It may look dated and drab set wise, but the humour is genious and still has me howling with laughter today. There are some classic scenes in this series. The "Everybody's dead Dave" scene when Lister is allowed out of suspended animation, which he has been in for three million years as a punishment for bringing a cat on board, is wonderful. My personal favourite is Hollys April fool on Lister when he tells him that Norweb Electricity are coming after him because he "left a light on in the bathroom".
Red Dwarf: Series 1 August 11, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My daughter ordered this as a surprise for her boyfriend. It arrived so quickly and he was beyond thrilled with it. Great service!
Doesn't Time Fly When you're Trapped in Deep Space, Three Million years into the Future? July 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alright; maybe series 1 and 2 of Red Dwarf weren't the peak of the show, as far as writing,and all-around polish, but I still find it hard to believe that a previous reviewer found NOTHING funny about this. Not Norman Lovett's deadpan delivery as Holly, not the petty behavior of Rimmmer? Not the carefree, slob, but good-hearted man that is Lister? Not even the Cat????? I can't believe that the "Everybody's dead Dave" scene, or the Cat's shiny thing (actually a yo-yo he apparently found, and uses like a cat toy) didn't force so much as a chuckle from this reviewer. Some people obviously lack taste, and class when it comes to humor. Poor, laugh-deprived human beings; oh, well...
As for my own opinion, I think it's smeggin' hilarious! The writing is great, the actors are wonderful (so much character in the Cat, and Holly), and things are always fresh. Even the sets, and props (admittedly low-budget) have a certain appeal to them. Just great jokes, highly original and well-matched characters ( well-matched for humor of course, for socializing in the real world, I'm not so sure), and all around fun humor, and even the odd stray philosophical musing, which would become a staple of the show in later seasons.
As for the DVD? Well this is why I'm giving this, not the funniest of the shows series a boost to five stars. Outtakes, GREAT deleted scenes (for a TV show!), a documentary, commentaries on episodes, stills galleries, some nice vintage ads, even fun music cues, and more. The DVD is great, the show is great. Huh, let's see: funny, great show, great DVD (for a TV show); what's not like? 5/5, very funny [...]
 Agreeing with Minority July 13, 2007
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Just one word - horrible. I just do not understand what is funny about this show and how it is popular. It's a mess. Poorly staged, bad lighting, annoying characters, insipid and I could not wait for it to be over. I bought Series I for my husband and me based on everyone's comments here and were we dissapointed. Do you want well done, well scripted and entertaining sci-fi? FIREFLY is the best I've seen. We love that show.
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