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 Every generation has an idiot… Something's were never meant to make sense…
The first episode entitled 'Back In The Red - Part 1' kicks off the new series in style. The nanobots have not only recreated Red Dwarf they have also populated the ship with its old crew. This is extremely good news for Rimmer (Chris Barrie). 'Back In The Red' also sees the return of Holly (Norman Lovett) as the ships original computer and Mac McDonald as Captain Hollister together with crew members Chen (Paul Bradley) and Selby (David Gillespie). The main cast are: Chris Barrie as Rimmer. Craig Charles as Lister, Danny John-Jules as Cat, Robert Llewellyn as Kryten and Chloë Annett as Kochanski. Plus special guests including: Geraldine McEwan, Graham McTavish and Jake Wood. Series VIII features the Skutters in superb and controlled working order. This is progress indeed as the Skutters were last seen in earlier series, when owing to a slight technical hitch, they used to pick up mini-cab radio transmissions near the studios which resulted in them randomly attacking the cast without warning, much to the delight of the studio audience. Highlights include Danny John-Jules as the Cat engaging in a stunning dance sequence with the spacecraft Blue Midget and the entire crew become horribly embroiled with a gigantic dinosaur. Six of the episodes have been written solely by Creator and Executive Producer Doug Naylor and the other two co-written by Doug Naylor and Paul Alexander. The new series is skilfully piloted by Ed Bye who returns as Director Producer. BBC-TWO's longest running and highest rating situation comedy has spawned a huge world-wide cult following, it is currently the most popular British show in America and is also airing in Japan where NHK - Japan's equivalent of BBC 1 is showing all 52 episodes of Red Dwarf including those which have been remastered. The first of a series of Red Dwarf movies featuring all the regular cast is scheduled to begin shooting in the Spring of the year 2000..
A 'Making of Red Dwarf VIII' programme is likely to be produced by the BBC. Robert Llewellyn originally planned to make one of his own on camcorder and sold on video in both PAL and NTSC formats from January 199
RE D DWARF VIIIA Grant Naylor Production for BBC North. Written by: Doug Naylor & Paul Alexander Starring: Chris Barrie (Rimmer), Craig Charles (Lister), Danny John-Jules (The Cat), Robert Llewellyn (Kryten) Chloe Annett (Kochanski) and Norman Lovett (Holly) Broadcast Date: February 18th 1999 Back In The Red, Parts I, II & III Guest Cast: Mac McDonald (Captain Hollister), Paul Bradley (Chen), David Gillespie (Selby), Jeillo Edwards (Ground Controller)Red Dwarf is resurrected by Kryten's nanobots - not just the ship but the entire crew. As Starbug crash-lands in the cargobay Captain Hollister arrests the posse for hijacking a JMC vessel. Lister races to prove his innocence with the help of an old friend - the resurrected Rimmer only to find that Rimmer has his own interests at heart… Epis ode Four: CassandraLister signs the posse up for the Canaries - what he believes is the Tanks choir - only to find they're actually a group of kamikaze commandos who go on dangerous missions. The first mission brings Rimmer in touch with Cassandra a computer who can see the future and has given him just hours to live… Episod e Five: Krytie TVRimmer and Lister come up for appraisal and have to be on their best behaviour for the outcome to be positive. This becomes difficult when Kryten gets involved in the inmate's entertainment - broadcasting live pictures from the women's showers… Pete, Parts I & II On a Canaries mission the posse come across a Time Wand capable of changing the past and future to suit the owners needs. Kryten decides to use it to make the dwarfers 2-year prison sentence pass in seconds. It goes wrong and ends up de-evolving a sparrow into a T-Rex which threatens Red Dwarf's food supplies…
Ep isode Eight: Only The Good…In what could be the last ever TV episode of RE D DWARF Kryten seeks revenge on Lister for inaccurate information on female biology by hiding Baxter's supply of Hooch in his cell before an inspection. A prank which leads to the destruction of the ship, the disappearance of the crew and the death of Rimmer. THE END? (Like smeg it is!)
REVIEW After series VI (which I feel is Red Dwarf at it's worst hour) and the extremely underrated series VII (which is now out on video hurrah!) series VIII saw Red Dwarf back on top form. It felt like a revitalised series full of energy thanks to it's mighty fine special effects and terrific looking sets. The jokes were there and they were fresh. (Unlike the recycled gags of series 6) in fact its humour was reminiscent of series 4 which I felt (up until now) was Red Dwarf's best series. Meanwhile the characters returned to being the strong personalities of the first few series and not the comic book self-mocking style characters seen in the later years. What perhaps made series 8 the extremely enjoyable series that it was, was that it focused on what Red Dwarf is all about - Rimmer and Lister. Finally we got to see some good old fashioned 'bunk scenes' not seen since RD III's 'Marooned'. Another thing was that Kryten's head returned to its usual self, rather than that horrible over angular prosthetic they used in RD VII - oh and Kryten stopped that awful high pitched winging that was never ever funny! Sadly we saw little of The Cat & Kochanski but when we did we were guaranteed great scenes. Red Dwarf VIII was full of moments. RD VII only had two - the kiss and the Rimmer 'munchkin' song. This year we've had the blue midget dance, the 'stiff' game of basket ball, Rimmer and Kochanski sharing a bed and Kryten's penis flying around the room. Okay so we'll probably never have a moment as memorable as the shrinking boxer shorts but if Doug Naylor continues this back to basics style for the movie then Red Dwarf's future is very bright indeed! (The annoying cliff hanger ending did spoil it slightly though… go on Doug, tell us what happens to Rimsy, pleaseeeee. Actually he'd better or I'll reveal the storyline before him snigger snigger! One clue - HOOCH! - it obvious really… I think…isn't it?!)
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