How many seasons of Red Dwarf are there?

Question

Here in America, I got to see about 3 or 4 but I feel like I missed some?

Answer 1

9

Answer 2

There are 8 in all but they are numbered in roman numerals. So the last one was Red Dwarf V III

Answer 3

It goes up to Red Dwarf VIII and I watched them all from Netflix. Too cool. The Rimmer song? Mr. Flibble? You should hook it up :) oh yeah, and on youtube you can watch a really unfunny american version, a pilot that lasted for two episodes

Answer 4

There were 8 in all plus a film version was going to be made but I guess Craig Charles thought doing Coronation Street was a better idea.

Answer 5

There were eight seasons made of this hilarious show. You can find Red Dwarf episodes on www.tv-links.co.uk, enjoy!

Answer 6

There are at least 7, but in my (and many others) opinion, anything after the 6th series isn't very good!

Also, there is some debate as to whether the 6th series is the "best" or not. Whatever - the 6th series is amazing :-)

Answer 7

8 the show ended on a massive cliffhanger though

Answer 8

Hi, there are 8 seasons. If you want to watch them you should try www.tv-links.co.uk, alluc.org or you tube

Answer 9

There are 8

check out this link so you can watch them

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/show.do/1/4129

Answer 10

There are 8 series. Generally, they significantly changed style after every 2 series.

Spoilers follow:

Series 1- The ship's laconic computer Holly, played by Norman Lovett, acts as narrator to the series. We learn that second technician Rimmer (main duty chicken soup machine repairman played by Chris Barrie), who never feels that he has lived up to his promise and is sometimes regarded as pedantic and weaselly by his shipmates, accidentally killed the crew of the Jupiter Mining Ship Red Dwarf by not sealing a door properly, allowing a lethal dose of radiation in. Only the slobby Lister (Craig Charles) and the ship's vain cat (Danny John Jules), housed in quarantine, survived, resurrected by Holly 3 million years later.

Series 2: We first meet Kryten, although he is played by a different actor, David Ross (who plays the part excellently). His character is a robot whose function is purely to serve. Lister will teach him to break his programming, much to Rimmer's annoyance who never really gets to like him.

The first 2 series regularly made references to Lister's desire to go to Fiji and he frequently dressed in Hawaiian-style T shirts. This would be made less of in subsequent series.

Series 3: Holly is now played by a woman, Hattie Hayridge, The show starts to adopts a look that is darker and more like a scence fiction film. One of the episodes, Polymorph, is akin to 'Alien' with some very funny jokes. Another, Backwards, is set on a a parallel version of Earth where time runs backwards. 'Marooned' is arguably one of the best Red Dwarf scripts, featuring mainly Lister and Rimmer, an episode in which we feel sorry for Rimmer (unlike in Bodyswap where Rimmer is a complete 'goit').

Series 4: Arguably the most consistently good Red Dwarf series (until series 6 anyway). At least 4 truly great episodes (Justice, White Hole (a particular favourite featuring Lister playing pool with planets) , Dimension Jump and Meltdown). Dimension Jump introduces Rimmer's alto eg. Ace Rimmer, very different from Rimmer (someone 'brave, noble and charming' to use a quote from series 6's 'Rimmerworld') who will also appear in series 6 and 7.

Series 5: Visually, a half way house between the superb lighting and sets of series 6 and bits of series 4. Back to reality is often voted best Red Dwarf episode ever and I'm not going to argue as it is very good. The last 10 minutes of Quarantine are a classic and Holoship is marvellous. 'Demons and Angels' and 'The Inquisitor' aren't that good, comparitively speaking, (the latter is like an inferior version of series 'Justice') although the site of Chris Barrie in fishnet tights is an iconic one for many. Terrorform is brilliant, set in Rimmer's diseased mind.

Series 6: This is where all the Red Dwarf ingredients came together superbly. It looks fantastic but there are a few big differences- Lister is said to have lost Red Dwarf (in reality, part of the Red Swarf set was lost!) so the crew are forced to use the much smaller scouting ship Starbug, which had featured in some episodes before. As a result the ship's computer is lost as well (in reality the writers decided that they had few lines for Holly and the Cat so one had to go- Holly would come back in series 8 but played by thhe original- Norman Lovett). This series, by general agreement, features the best one-liners of any Red Dwarf series- the smart, quick lines are as sharp as you would expect from an American comedy instead. Apart from 'Out of Time', which is a relatively dull episode apart from the dramatic ending, these are all really great episodes. 'Rimmerworld', set on a planet in which Rimmer creates clones of himself, is slightly similar to series 5's 'Terrorform' with a touch of series 4's 'Meltdown' and, like those episodes, it's a great one. The award winning 'Gunmen of the apocalypse' is stylistically accomplished but it is the opening episode 'Psirens' that is my favourite, partly as it features the lines 'Lister-tune into Santity FM' and 'Of course-it's as plain as a Bulgarian pin up.'

Series 7- Partly in preparation for the Red Dwarf movie (which still hasn't been released) this series had an expensive looking, cinematic feel. The object of Listers' desires on ship, Kochanksi (seen in several earlier series), now becomes a regular character, played by somebody else, Chloe Anette. She is posh and very girly- the opposite of her crewmates- but she tries to fit in. This series is still regarded as the start of a downward spiral for Red Dwarf but, in my opinion, whilst series 7 was not as 'laugh out loud' funny as series 6 (although the start of 'Stoke me a clipper' is superb), it began a period in Red Dwarf where you could far more start to enjoy the nuances of the characters and where Rimmer and Lister started to get on. By comparison, previous series had far more frequently relied on antagonism between characters. With this series, Red Dwarf proved that it didn't have to rely on set cliches- it was more like Friends than Steptoe and Son- it was a wise move in retrospect but, on first viewing, the lack of a laughter track was disconcerting.

Series 8- Did away with the cinematic style and brought a whole new slant on the show by bringing back the ship's crew and Captain Hollister (a brilliant move). This was deliberately like series 1 could have been on a bigger budget and with much better effects and if the writers had more experience of moulding the characters. Many felt that it was either worse than series 7 or little better but that dramatic ending to series 6 could never quite be lived up to. True, series 4 or 6 (or even 5 to some) are still the highpoints but Chloe Annette has brought some new life to Red Dwarf.