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22 unusual facts about Red Dwarf


Back to Earth

Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, a three-part mini-series of the TV show Red Dwarf

Behind the Scenes of Total Hell: The Jamie Gunn Chronicles

As well as many emerging actors, the film features a narration from Norman Lovett (best known for playing Holly in Red Dwarf) and Ian McCulloch (best known for playing Peter West in Zombie Flesh Eaters).

Berni Inn

In the Red Dwarf episode "Better Than Life", Holly notes that even though loneliness weighs heavily on us all, "Personally, the only thing that keeps me going is the thought that we are over 60 billion miles away from the nearest Berni Inn."

Bill Steer

Steer also appeared along with Jeffrey Walker (bassist/vocalist of Carcass) in an episode of the Sci-Fi comedy Red Dwarf.

Brothers of Jesus

The Red Dwarf series ten episode "Lemons" includes the idea that Judas was actually the twin brother of Jesus, who died in his place to 'fake' the resurrection and spread Jesus' gospel.

Charles Augins

He is probably best known to television audiences for playing "Queeg 500" in an episode of Red Dwarf.

Digory Kirke

They find themselves in a completely abandoned world called Charn, over which a dying red sun hangs.

Fathers and Suns

Holly was last seen in Series VIII episode "Only the Good..." and they mentioned Holly was offline due to water damage in Back to Earth after Lister had left a bath running for nine years and the Skutters hadn't dried him out.

Gazpacho

"Me²", an episode of the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, in which gazpacho also features significantly.

Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko

Red Dwarf star Danny John-Jules provided the voice for Gex in the UK and European release, but comedian Dana Gould reprised the role for the American release, also starring the Playboy model Marliece Andrada as Agent Xtra, the only character that is featured in live-action.

Jeffrey Walker

Walker also appeared in an episode of the science fiction comedy Red Dwarf.

John Lenahan

Lenahan also provided the voice of Talkie Toaster in the first series of Red Dwarf and presented a 1987 factual series on BBC Two called The Open Road.

Red Dwarf: Back to Earth

After locating him, the Creator (Richard O'Callaghan) reveals that he intends to kill the crew, having tired of them, but is himself killed by a now keen to remain alive Lister.

After they barely escape the encounter with their lives, the squid proceeds to vanish, and Katerina Bartikovsky (Sophie Winkleman), a former Red Dwarf science officer, materialises.

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers is a best-selling science fiction comedy novel by Grant Naylor, the collective name for Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, co-creators and writers of the Red Dwarf television series, on which the novel is based.

Lister starts living in a replica of Bedford Falls from It's a Wonderful Life with a descendant of Kochanski who looks and acts exactly like her and is even called Kristine, Rimmer marries a supermodel and becomes a successful businessman (with his company developing a solidgram body for Rimmer and a time machine to allow him to socialise with the greatest figures in history) and the Cat lives in Denmark in a palace surrounded by a moat of milk.

Rob Grant

The 'Grant Naylor' collaboration, as it had become known, was best known for the creation of the cult science-fiction comedy series, Red Dwarf, which evolved from Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, a recurring sketch within Son Of Cliché.

Red Dwarf (1989), with Doug Naylor (published under the joint pseudonym Grant Naylor); sometimes referred to as Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers.

Smeg Virus Construction Kit

Messages within the two viruses Pile created with it, SMEG.Pathogen and SMEG.Queeg, suggest that it is also an allusion to the word smeg, used as a profanity by characters in the British TV series Red Dwarf.

Suzanne Rhatigan

During this period, she appeared in an episode of cult sci-fi TV series Red Dwarf (Season 4, Episode 1: "Camille"), in which Charles starred.

The Morganville Vampires

It has been announced on the author's website that the rights to a Morganville Vampire film/TV series and any other multimedia production have been sold to the people behind the popular series Red Dwarf.

Vindaloo

The TV series Red Dwarf main character Dave Lister is fond of vindaloo to the point of near gastronomic obsession, choosing it above all other dishes whenever available.


Beyond a Joke

Meanwhile, Kochanski (Chloë Annett) decides to educate Lister (Craig Charles) and Cat (Danny John-Jules) on the finer points of etiquette by introducing them to a virtual reality rendition of "Pride and Prejudice Land" in "Jane Austen World".

Chris Eigeman

In 1992 he filmed a pilot for an American version of the British cult sci-fi television show Red Dwarf playing the part of Arnold Rimmer, but the show was not picked up as a series.

Darth Vader's Psychic Hotline

While the film primarily spoofs the Star Wars universe in the format of an infomercial, there are several other notable targets, including subtle references to Star Trek, Babylon 5, Back to the Future, Red Dwarf, Battlestar Galactica, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Effective temperature

A red star could be a tiny red dwarf, a star of feeble energy production and a small surface or a bloated giant or even supergiant star such as Antares or Betelgeuse, either of which generates far greater energy but passes it through a surface so large that the star radiates little per unit of surface area.

Futera

Futera was the official licencee for non-sport titles including Mattel's "Barbie", BBC Television Sci-fi Series "Red Dwarf" in association with Grant Naylor Film Productions, and the feature film "Chicken Run" with Universal Studios, Aardman Animations & Pathé.

Gordon Salkilld

He also gained fame in Red Dwarf: Season 2, Episode 2 as Gordon - the incredibly intelligent computer aboard the S.S. F Scott Fitzgerald, who is involved in a chess game with Holly - a part specially written for him by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, with whom he had previously worked on the Radio 4 series Wrinkles, and as Petty Officer Parker in BBC Children's Series The Doombolt Chase.

K-type main-sequence star

K dwarf, is a main-sequence (hydrogen-burning) star of spectral type K and luminosity class V. These stars are intermediate in size between red M-type main-sequence stars and yellow G-type main-sequence stars.

Last Human

It is part of the Red Dwarf series of novels, based on the popular television show created by Naylor and his partner Rob Grant.

Nanarchy

Down on the surface they find items from Red Dwarf including the original Holly (Norman Lovett) who explains that the nanobots had deconstructed Red Dwarf, creating their own miniature version of the ship and turned the rest into a planet for safekeeping.

Son of Cliché

One of the recurring sketches from the second series of the show, "Dave Hollins — Space Cadet", formed the basis for what later became the BBC2 TV sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, which Grant and Naylor also scripted and Barrie starred in.

The Very Things

The Shend formed a new band, Grimetime, and has since gone on to an acting career, appearing in television series including EastEnders, Red Dwarf, The Bill, and Torchwood.

Yasmin Bannerman

Further appearances include a brief role in Red Dwarf— in a scene that took a day to shoot - and a recurring role in the third series of Cold Feet as Jessica Barnes, a local political activist who has an affair with David Marsden (played by Robert Bathurst).