a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary
a Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
a Classification number DVD 003179
a Personal name Rob, Grant.
a Title Red Dwarf : Series 1
h Medium DVD
a Place of publication, distribution, etc USA
b Name of publisher, distributor, etc BBC Warner
c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2003
a Extent 2 DVD
a Playing time 176 min.
a Summary, etc 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).
a Language note Language: English
a Language note Subtitle: "No Subtitle"
a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Tv series
u Cover Images http://library.neu.edu.tr/uploaded-files/coverimages/RedDwarf.jpg