FREE: Red Dwarf I

The listing, Red Dwarf I has ended.

2 DVDs in case, Very Good condition
5 Out of 5 Stars: The beginning begins with The End!?!
Amazon Review By Bruce W. Johns 7/1/2006
The crew of the Jupiter mining ship Red Dwarf are wiped out by radiation. All except for slobby space-bum Dave Lister who survived the ordeal because he was put into stasis for bringing an unquarantined animal onboard. The animal was Frankenstein, his pet cat, who manages to survive the radiation by escaping to the ships bowels. Frankenstein did pretty well for herself (yes Franky's a she) having her babies and spawning an entire race of "Cat-people" over the course of 3 million years, which is the amount of time it took for the radiation levels to lower to a safe enough point that humans (and cat-people) could survive. As Lister emerges from a 3 million year stasis sleep, he finds that the crew are dead, his library books are way, WAY overdue and his only companions are; Holly, the ships senile computer who claims to have an IQ of 6000, a creature (one of the cat-people) known only as Cat, and Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister's dead bunk-mate. This series is the first of 8. The sets and special effects of this series are far removed from later series, but the gray backgrounds and drab wardrobes (except for Cat) don't hamper the stories in any way. It seemed to me that they ran out of jokes in the later series and replaced comedy with more sci-fi and action to fill time. I'm not saying later series aren't any good, but what I am saying is that you don't have the one on one thrust and parry of comedic timing and "hold-your-belly" laughs that you get with the first 4 series. I love Red Dwarf as a whole, but my favourite series are the first 4. I doubt I'll ever stop watching them. After you watch the first couple of episodes, you'll be as hooked as I was/am, and you'll want to share this show with your friends.