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Red Dwarf - Series 1 & 2 | 
| Director: Ed Bye
Actors: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett
Studio: BBC Warner
Category: DVD
List Price: $69.98
Buy New: $39.66
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Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 27963
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.2
MPN: WARDE1717D
ISBN: 0790776618
UPC: 794051171726
EAN: 9780790776613
ASIN: B00007JZUB
Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 1989
Release Date: February 25, 2003
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/02/2006 Rating: Nr
Amazon.com
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). The second season showcases the show's sardonic, sarcastic humor to perfection. The cast had gelled, the drab sets were spiced up, a little more money had been assigned to models and special effects, and the crew even went on location once in a while. "Kryten" introduces us to the eponymous house robot (here played by David Ross), although after this first episode he was not to reappear until season 3, when Robert Llewellyn made the role his own. Then in "Better Than Life" the show produced one of its all-time classic episodes, as the boys from the Dwarf take part in a virtual reality game that's ruined by Rimmer's tortured psyche. Other highlights include "Queeg," in which Holly is replaced by a domineering computer personality; the baffling time-travel paradox of "Stasis Leak"; the puzzling conundrum of "Thanks for the Memory"; and the astonishingly feminine "Parallel Universe." --Mark Walker
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| Customer Reviews: Read 51 more reviews...
 'How to Get Lost in Space' for Smegheads July 31, 2008
D. Gorman "Crystalline Structure Moon"
The first 2 seasons of this brilliant Britcom start the show off admirably. Craig Charles is perfect as the last human alive, a blue-collar slob with a penchant for eating curry. Chris Barrie, the show's most talented comedic actor and its only hologram, is supurb as his uptight, inept clod with military aspirations (almost the British version of Frank Burns from MASH), Danny John-Jules is excellent as a life form that evolved from a house cat. And Norman Lovett is great as Holly, the ship's computer, and really much better and more memorable than the girl who replaced him in Season 3. The first 6 seasons of this show really stand out as a shining moment in British comedy, and one of the finest Britcoms to ever find its way to the screen (at least, it looks that way here in The States). And these first 2 seasons start the show off in fine style. We are introduced to these characters who are thrown together after a radiation leak kills almost everyone on the mining spaceship called Red Dwarf. Together, they try to find their way back to Earth, or at least survive, because although you can always generate more oxygen, it's nearly impossible to find a decent Indian restaurant out in deep space when you're 3 million years away from India. These first 2 years are a beautiful intro to the show, well-written, acted with impressive comedic talent and timing, taking the occasional liberties with reality that you expect in sci-fi. Sure, this show owes a certain debt to its sci-fi predecessors, but it is NOT just a rip-off of other shows. A lot of the comedy is fresh and interesting, poking fun at convention, religion and all we hold as truth. If you watch this show, you will laugh! If you don't check this show out, you're a smeghead!
It's that simple.
 Red Dwarf Series I & II April 5, 2008
Robert A. Fornal (Columbus, OH USA)
As funny as I remember from so many years ago. So wonderful to see this series in color!
Great Comedy and excellent Sci-Fi June 14, 2007
Joseph M. Plesinger (New York ,USA)
my recent purchase of The Red dwarf was as I expected just wonderful! The show has some of the best English humor with some really great Sci-fi concepts. I recommend this program to anyone who likes British Comedy and enjoys interesting Science fiction.
 Too Many Extras........Not enough Episodes May 22, 2007
Crystal L. Herronpruitt (Texas)
I love the show and have enjoyed watching it. However this page does not list how many episodes are on each series, there are only 6 in each. Although I probably should have investigated them individually I was really exited about the prospect of getting 2 full seasons (atleast from an American viewpoint) and when they arrived they were packaged together with the fronts facing out opposite each other, needless to say once I got the package opened and scanned the backs I realized I only had 12 episodes total on two discs, the other two are full of extras. At discovering this I wanted to return them but could not because I had to open the package to find out that there were only 6 episodes to a series. I have since discovered that they sell a copy of Just the Episodes that have Series 1,2,3,and 4, which I would have bought had I seen it before I had purchased this product.
Red Dwarf Seasons 1 & 2 - Wonderful March 23, 2007
Ryan (Lacey WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is in my opinion one of the great classics. If you like British shows, and dry humor, (these tend to go hand in hand in my experience) this is a wonderful show to start watching. With an 80's sci-fi twist this is a great addition to any TV show collection. A must have for British TV fans.
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