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. After season 8 it was more or less known that the show was finally over. 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. 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. While the initial half of the episode is pretty silly, with lister being.
After series iii my friend aaron revealed that a book of the show existed i devoured that novel, and soon, its sequel. Red dwarf is a british comedy franchise which primarily comprises twelve series and. It was first broadcast on the british television channel bbc2 on 17 january 1997. And it would be four years before the cliffhanger was resolved. Its only since i went back and watched the earlier ones that i realised s7 8 doesnt really hold up to the earlier series. The episode and the season ends with our heroes dead and one of the starbugs destroyed.
Back to earth behind the scenes 01 off duty with the crew. 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. The episode is nearly entirely confined to starbug, and features only the main four cast members darker and edgier. This show ran from 1988 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 1999 with a revival having premiered in 2012. 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. This cliffhanger was going to be resolved in the red dwarf movie, which ended up in development hell and was never made. 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. Red dwarf series 1 red dwarf series 2 red dwarf series 3. Lister was sentenced to be put in suspended animation for eighteen months as. Then it took 2 more years to make season 4, which followed with seasons 56 the following two years. The most recent, red dwarf xii, started airing in october 2017. 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. 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.
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. The short crimson one is in a pretty dire situation, with everything breaking around them. X dvd the most inept band of space travelers ever to roam the interstellar highway. Red dwarf series and episodes list british comedy guide. If you dont remember ever seeing red dwarf series 9, you could be forgiven for thinking you had started to lose the plot. This official companion book contains photographs, storyboards and sketches plus all eight scripts, including scenes cut from final transmission.
The final episode is a cliffhanger in the tradition of the last episodes of series 6 and 7. My headcanon is that the alternative ending technically the original ending, but changed at the. The rest of the red dwarf crew vanished somewhere between series 8 and this series. Back to earth was a lukewarm return for the classic scifi sitcom. Because after a musical summer dominated by the stone roses and blur, more than. Rimmer again shows some backbone, just like in out of time. 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.
The series resumed in 2009, and 2012, with no resolution of this cliffhanger. Did red dwarf plagiarise one of its most famous gags. Except for rimmer, apparently trapped on the disintegrating ship. The show finally returned a full decade later in 2009.
With chris barrie, craig charles, danny johnjules, robert llewellyn. 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 program has run through more than ten series with more than 65 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. Red dwarf xii is the twelfth series of the legendary scifi comedy, once again written and directed by the shows cocreator doug naylor. As it is, out of time marks the end of one era for the series, yet red dwarf endures.
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. 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. 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. 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. Ace rimmer just when you thought things couldnt get any funnier then the first three seasons, along comes series 4. At the end of series viii of red dwarf, only the good. Series 9 was never made so we are left to guess the conclusion of series 8 s cliffhanger. Written by doug naylor and directed by ed bye, it was the first episode not to involve cocreator and writer rob grant.
Of course the rd movie may delay series 9, even though the last episode implies that there will be a series. 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. Red dwarf se4 ep5 dimension jump part 1 by deadwalk2000. The premise of the series follows the lowranking technician dave lister, who awakens after being in suspended animation for three. Watch all 8 red dwarf episodes from season 8,view pictures, get episode information and more. 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. 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. The series was created by rob grant and doug naylor the first six series were written by grant. To date, eleven full series of the show have aired, plus one special miniseries. Created by dough naylor, red dwarf is the comedy featured on dave and uktv play. 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 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.
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. Series 2, 6, 7 and 8 all ended on cliffhangers especially 6 and 8 the cartoon version of the rocky and bullwinkle show. If you enjoyed the classic seasons of red dwarf, this is for you. Red dwarf se4 ep5 dimension jump part 2 by deadwalk2000. Liverpudlian caretaker dave lister is sentenced to 18months in suspended animation for smuggling his pregnant cat frankenstine onboard. Red dwarf celebrated its 10th anniversary in february 1999 with the transmission of series viii. I know its a sort of injoke that its not explained how season 8 cliffhanger was resolved but itll be nice knowing. Vhs releases had started, and i remember eagerly watching red dwarf ii at my friend leonards house 6 new episodes.
Here, this episode seems to be an answer to how does stuff like this get resolved. Red dwarf iv and v appeared, and by now i was in the mad grip of pure obsession. The red dwarf cast make a hilarious comeback for one special episode good morning britain duration. It premiered on the british television channel bbc2 on 14 november 1989. Red dwarf took the bold step of actually removing red dwarf itself for the semirebooted series six.
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. 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 first episode was meant to resolve the series two cliffhanger, in which lister ends up pregnant with twins thanks to some parallel. The most noteworthy adaptation of the red dwarf series comes from the bbc two television series of the same name. Often ends each episode in some sort of a cliffhanger, left to be resolved in the next episode. 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. The series debuted on the bbc in 1988 and follows dave lister, a disgusting slob who finds himself the last man alive. Sep 19, 2014 liverpudlian caretaker dave lister is sentenced to 18months in suspended animation for smuggling his pregnant cat frankenstine onboard. The classic cliffhanger is a great way to tell a story and to keep the audience hooked and coming back for more. 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. 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. Belatedly i was reading through an article on the red dwarf site. Mar 10, 2014 the red dwarf stars share some favourite past lines and i hear good news for fans.
List of cliffhanger endings academic dictionaries and. Complete collection dvd now together in this 18disc box set, every episode of red dwarf plus 24 hours of extras. So we encourage you to watch all 20 of the episodes mentioned here, then see what else the show has in. It originally aired on the bbc between 1988 and 1999, before later being revived on the channel dave in 2009. Although series viii has eight episodes, it actually has the fewest number of individual. The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship red dwarf. Lister, rimmer kryten and the cat are back with their crazy antics. Backwards is the first episode of science fiction sitcom red dwarf series iii, and the thirteenth in the series run. We travel back to the beginning and back to the future on dave. 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. 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. One question bugging me though is rimmer on season 8 was flesh and blood of course, but a hologram again in back to earth season 9. 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. This series on script stories attempts to resolve what happened between series viii and ix.
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. Series viii 1999 the final red dwarf series for a decade was broadcast in 1999. 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. After experimenting with an abandoned time drive, the crew of the red dwarf comes facetoface with an exact replica of the ship. It was first shown in the uk on april 5, 1999 in the 9. Red dwarf is a comedyscience fiction series created by writers rob grant and doug naylor. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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