Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy franchise, the primary form of which comprises eight series of a post-watershed television sitcom that ran on BBC2 between 1988 and 1999, It tackles the misadventures of the crew of the deep-mining ship known as the Red Dwarf.
It was created and originally written by Grant Naylor (a so-called 'gestalt entity', in reality a collective pseudonym for the writing duo Rob Grant and Doug Naylor). The show had its origins in a recurring sketch, Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, in the mid-1980s BBC Radio 4 comedy show Son Of Cliché, also scripted by Grant and Naylor. In addition to the Red Dwarf television series, there have also been four bestselling novels, a pilot episode for an American version of the show, and a significant number of tie-in books, magazines and other merchandise.
The story is about three million years ago, a massive radiation leak killed the crew of the Red Dwarf. The only survivor was Dave Lister who was sentenced to 6-months suspended animation as he smuggled his pet cat named Frankenstine on board. In the year 2077 Lister awoke only to find out the crew has been wiped out and that the ship was lost in the middle of deep space. Dave Lister was the only human being alive on-board Red Dwarf. He is not alone, accompanying him are Holly, the ship's computer that intelligence is rapidly decreasing, a hologram of his bunkmate Arnold Rimmer, a cat that is a humanoid which evolved from Lister's cat Frankenstine and Kryten, a robot rescued from the American space cruised known as the Nova.
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