Red dwarf took the bold step of actually removing red dwarf itself for the semirebooted series six. This show ran from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 1999 with a revival having premiered in 2012. Series 2, 6, 7 and 8 all ended on cliffhangers especially 6 and 8 the cartoon version of the rocky and bullwinkle show. The series debuted on the bbc in 1988 and follows dave lister, a disgusting slob who finds himself the last man alive. Lister was sentenced to be put in suspended animation for eighteen months as. But dave awakes from suspended animation, only to find hes been frozen for 3 million years and the crew have been wiped out in a radioactive disaster. The premise of the series follows the lowranking technician dave lister, who awakens after being in suspended animation for three million years to find he is. Ace rimmer just when you thought things couldnt get any funnier then the first three seasons, along comes series 4. Backwards is the first episode of science fiction sitcom red dwarf series iii, and the thirteenth in the series run. The cliffhanger has been used to great effect, and particularly on tv shows, the cliffhanger is used to make sure that the audience comes back for the next season.
Sensing the danger from another dimension red dwarf is in ace rimmer dimension jumps back to our universe to save the day with a couple of tanks of the antidote to the virus, crashing into. And it would be four years before the cliffhanger was resolved. Ok, its been 20 years since red dwarf started and its had its low points 34 of series 7 and its high points too many to mention but this remains a great british show, and there arent so. The series saw the gang thrown into jail by red dwarf s captain for hijacking starbug and ended on cliffhanger as a genetically engineered virus all but destroyed the ship and rimmer was. Red dwarf iv and v appeared, and by now i was in the mad grip of pure obsession. My headcanon is that the alternative ending technically the original ending, but changed at the. Vhs releases had started, and i remember eagerly watching red dwarf ii at my friend leonards house 6 new episodes. I think theyll maybe resolve the cliffhanger in a similar way to the opening of tikka to ride with a recap making things sound a lot funnier than they actually were.
So we encourage you to watch all 20 of the episodes mentioned here, then see what else the show has in. Even anime has done season ending hangers, with the big o and zoids fuzors, not to mention a cliffhanger of truly staggering size at the end of season 1 of code geass mentioned in detail below the anime code geass ends its first season on a particularly high cliff hanger. And cliffhangers are simply and quickly resolved in order to provide us with the shows most important aspect laughter. I know its a sort of injoke that its not explained how season 8 cliffhanger was resolved but itll be nice knowing. By series 9, it is mentioned that kochanski had taken a blue midget to escape red dwarf in between series 8 and then more on that in a minute, but hollister made it. Mar 17, 2020 red dwarf has had sixtyodd single episodes so now, as it is in its final few years, a few big stories are the best way to go. As it is, out of time marks the end of one era for the series, yet red dwarf endures. The red dwarf spaceship model had fallen off a shelf and broke and rob grant and doug naylor had decided that in series 6, red dwarf had mysteriously disappeared, whilst rimmer, lister, cat and kryten were on the sss esperanto and that throughout series 6, rimmer, lister, cat and kryten travelled aboard starbug in search of red dwarf and it. Red dwarf celebrated its 10th anniversary in february 1999 with the transmission of series viii. Here, this episode seems to be an answer to how does stuff like this get resolved. Red dwarf se4 ep5 dimension jump part 2 by deadwalk2000.
If you enjoyed the classic seasons of red dwarf, this is for you. Mar 25, 2020 the series saw the gang thrown into jail by red dwarfs captain for hijacking starbug and ended on cliffhanger as a genetically engineered virus all but destroyed the ship and rimmer was. May 17, 2017 the classic cliffhanger is a great way to tell a story and to keep the audience hooked and coming back for more. Series 9 was never made so we are left to guess the conclusion of series 8 s cliffhanger. Complete collection dvd now together in this 18disc box set, every episode of red dwarf plus 24 hours of extras. Red dwarf is a british comedy franchise which primarily comprises twelve series and. Rimmer again shows some backbone, just like in out of time.
Red dwarf se4 ep5 dimension jump part 1 by deadwalk2000. Its only since i went back and watched the earlier ones that i realised s7 8 doesnt really hold up to the earlier series. Lister, rimmer kryten and the cat are back with their crazy antics. Season 8 ended with the red dwarf being devoured by a genetically enhanced virus while most of the crew evacuates, and the main characters escape to a mirror universe. Did red dwarf plagiarise one of its most famous gags. The short crimson one is in a pretty dire situation, with everything breaking around them. This official companion book contains photographs, storyboards and sketches plus all eight scripts, including scenes cut from final transmission. Red dwarf xii is the twelfth series of the legendary scifi comedy, once again written and directed by the shows cocreator doug naylor. The series resumed in 2009, and 2012, with no resolution of this cliffhanger. Chicken soup machine repairman and intergalactic loser dave lister awakesuspended animation to discover he is the lone survivor of a radiation lis now three million years into deep space and the last surviving memberhuman race. Red dwarf series 1 red dwarf series 2 red dwarf series 3. Series viii was the final series of the original bbc run of red dwarf and the last television outing for ten years, until the show returned in 2009 with the special back to earth and then properly with series x in 2012, now funded by digital channel dave. This cliffhanger was going to be resolved in the red dwarf movie, which ended up in development hell and was never made.
The final episode only the good has a rather ropey cliffhanger ending, and ok, i get that they probably didnt expect it to be a decade before more red dwarf would happen, but it was still a bit of an odd note to end the series on. While the initial half of the episode is pretty silly, with lister being. Created by dough naylor, red dwarf is the comedy featured on dave and uktv play. Red dwarf is a sciencefiction sitcom created by rob grant and doug naylor credited collectively as grant naylor. To date, eleven full series of the show have aired, plus one special miniseries. At the end of series 7 it was disovered who stole red dwarf and they get it back but the beginning of series 8 reveals that it comes with a catch. The series was created by rob grant and doug naylor the first six series were written by grant. Back to earth was a lukewarm return for the classic scifi sitcom. With chris barrie, craig charles, danny johnjules, robert llewellyn. You remember the series 8 finale only the good, which ended with a cliffhanger involving red dwarf being eaten by a corrosive virus and rimmer kicking death in the happy sack before fleeing into the disintegrating ship. It premiered on the british television channel bbc2 on 14 november 1989. It first appeared on bbc two in 1988 and reappeared in 1999, 2009, and 2012 the series, set three million years in the future, followed the motley crew of the 22nd century mining ship red dwarf, lost in deep space. Written by doug naylor and directed by ed bye, it was the first episode not to involve cocreator and writer rob grant.
The program has run through more than ten series with more than 65 episodes. Watch all 8 red dwarf episodes from season 8,view pictures, get episode information and more. Canon is sometimes completely ignored in favour of comedic development the red dwarf gaining an extra thousand crew members, lister having his appendix out twice. Oh, and try and resolve the cliffhanger from the previous episode the thing is, with red dwarf, previous changes that seemed to be permanent at the end of the episode were resolved by the next week, such as the ending of bodyswap, or the end of polymorph.
The rest of the red dwarf crew vanished somewhere between series 8 and this series. If you dont remember ever seeing red dwarf series 9, you could be forgiven for thinking you had started to lose the plot. Then it took 2 more years to make season 4, which followed with seasons 56 the following two years. The series focuses on the last known surviving human, dave lister, who is accidentally left in stasis for three million years after a radiation accident on the mining. With the entire crew also restored by nanobots, lister, rimmer, cat, kryten and kochanski are given a twoyear prison sentence in red dwarf s penal department, overseen by the officious warder ackerman. After season 8 it was more or less known that the show was finally over.
X dvd the most inept band of space travelers ever to roam the interstellar highway. Series 8 was my first proper introduction to red dwarf having only seen an episode from series 7 before, so it all felt fresh to me and i loved it. Red dwarf is a british science fiction comedy franchise created by rob grant and doug naylor which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on bbc two between 1988 and 1999, and on dave since 2009, gaining a cult following. By series 9, it is mentioned that kochanski had taken a blue midget to escape red dwarf in between series 8 and then more on that in a minute, but hollister made it sound like he was going to be.
It was first broadcast on the british television channel bbc2 on 17 january 1997. Red dwarf series and episodes list british comedy guide. Then it was not until 4 years later that we got the long awaited 7th season of red dwarf, followed by another 2 year break to get the 8th season. Red dwarf is a comedyscience fiction series created by writers rob grant and doug naylor. The classic cliffhanger is a great way to tell a story and to keep the audience hooked and coming back for more.
Red dwarf is a british science fiction comedy franchise which primarily consists of a television sitcom that aired on bbc two between 1988 and 1999, and on dave since 2009, gaining a cult following. Because after a musical summer dominated by the stone roses and blur, more than. Red dwarf s creators rob grant and doug naylor were heavily inspired by alien and john carpenters dark star when it came to creating the show. The most recent, red dwarf xii, started airing in october 2017. Series viii 1999 the final red dwarf series for a decade was broadcast in 1999. The entire crew of red dwarf had been recreated by the nanobots and so kryten, cat, rimmer and lister had a whole host of people to try and avoid again including captain hollister and the space corps. After series iii my friend aaron revealed that a book of the show existed i devoured that novel, and soon, its sequel.
The episode is nearly entirely confined to starbug, and features only the main four cast members darker and edgier. The show finally returned a full decade later in 2009. Tikka to ride is the first episode of science fiction sitcom red dwarf series vii and the 37th in the series run. The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship red dwarf. We travel back to the beginning and back to the future on dave. Oct 04, 2012 red dwarf returns to television tonight in a new series for dave, red dwarf x, in a move that feels bang on trend. It originally aired on the bbc between 1988 and 1999, before later being revived on the channel dave in 2009. Liverpudlian caretaker dave lister is sentenced to 18months in suspended animation for smuggling his pregnant cat frankenstine onboard.
Except for rimmer, apparently trapped on the disintegrating ship. Mar 10, 2014 the red dwarf stars share some favourite past lines and i hear good news for fans. Series 9 and 10 do happen in the same universe and timeline as the series 1 8 the nano created rimmer died between s8 and s9. The original cast of chris barrie rimmer, craig charles lister, danny johnjules cat and robert llewellyn kryten are back for six brand new episodes recorded in front of a live studio audience at. The brand new series, written and directed by doug naylor, begins with the dwarfers mining ship still creaking though the wastelands of unchartered deep space, but the posse soon stumbles upon the. List of cliffhanger endings academic dictionaries and. The episode and the season ends with our heroes dead and one of the starbugs destroyed. The premise of the series follows the lowranking technician dave lister, who awakens after being in suspended animation for three. It was first shown in the uk on april 5, 1999 in the 9. Red dwarf is a british comedy franchise which primarily comprises twelve series and a featurelength special of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on bbc two between 1988 and 1993 and from 1997 to 1999, and on dave in 2009 and 2012 and from 2016 to the present, gaining a cult following. Often ends each episode in some sort of a cliffhanger, left to be resolved in the next episode.
The red dwarf cast make a hilarious comeback for one special episode good morning britain duration. Red dwarf is a british comedy franchise which primarily comprises twelve series the ninth being a mini series of a television science fiction sitcom that aired on bbc two between 1988 and 1993 and from 1997 to 1999, and on dave in 2009 and 2012 and from 2016 to the present, gaining a cult following. Of course the rd movie may delay series 9, even though the last episode implies that there will be a series. Sep 19, 2014 liverpudlian caretaker dave lister is sentenced to 18months in suspended animation for smuggling his pregnant cat frankenstine onboard. This series on script stories attempts to resolve what happened between series viii and ix. Dave lister, a lowly technician, was sent into suspended animation for. Another acute one is that the red dwarf sets were subtly updated between series i and series ii, including a lot more detail in the drive room and bunk room sets, but when the dwarfers go back in time to the preaccident dwarf in series iis stasis leak, the past versions look exactly the same as the future ones, including the giant blow. The series first episode was meant to resolve the series two cliffhanger, in which lister ends up pregnant with twins thanks to some parallel. At the end of series viii of red dwarf, only the good. Back to earth behind the scenes 01 off duty with the crew. Jul 07, 2014 the thing is, with red dwarf, previous changes that seemed to be permanent at the end of the episode were resolved by the next week, such as the ending of bodyswap, or the end of polymorph.
Belatedly i was reading through an article on the red dwarf site. The most noteworthy adaptation of the red dwarf series comes from the bbc two television series of the same name. After experimenting with an abandoned time drive, the crew of the red dwarf comes facetoface with an exact replica of the ship. The final episode is a cliffhanger in the tradition of the last episodes of series 6 and 7. Red dwarf has had sixtyodd single episodes so now, as it is in its final few years, a few big stories are the best way to go. Although series viii has eight episodes, it actually has the fewest number of individual.