this have to be and one of the most outrageously funny and well acted sci fi comedy series ever make . with a well place cast and ridiculously illogical episode plot and the whole thing seem to mesh and become a huge hit . set in the future and on a space mining ship and the red dwarf and the show follow the zany live of it remain crew and 3 million year after a massive radiation leak from an improperly repair drive plate wipe out virtually all life on board the ship . the only survivor and be dave lister and play by the enigmatic and downright hilarious craig charles ( now appear a loyd mullaney in coronation street ) and who have just be place in stasis for smuggle aboard his female cat ( frankenstein ) and who then turn out to be the only other survivor . when holly the ship computer and perform by norman lovett and finally feel it safe to let lister out of stasis and he have the very difficult and repetitive task of tell him that everyone be dead . holly represent everybody be dead and dave . lister represent not chen . holly represent gordon bennett . yes . chen and everybody . everybody dead and dave . lister represent rimmer . holly represent he dead and dave . everybody dead . everybody be dead and dave . lister represent wait . be you try to tell me everybody dead . once lister come to term with it all and he be both relieved and distress to discover that holly have bring back his old roommate and colleague and arnold rimmer a a hologram in order to keep him sane . the depth that actor chris barrie bring to his character and to me and be amaze . he manage to convey a man so blind by himself and believe himself worthless and yet somehow destine for ultimate greatness at the same time and with a naivety that surpass even the cat . cat and perform by danny john jules be the end result of 3 million year worth of evolution and breeding by lister cat and frankenstein . cat be a self center and egotistical moron that take more pleasure out of his own appearance than anything else . one of my favourite line from cat be in series 1 and episode 2 and when he be to be find and saunter over to lister fish tank singing and i be gon na eat you little fishy . later on and in series 2 and the crew come across an android and kryten robert llewellyn ( originally play by david ross in the first episode title and kryten ) . from then on and they spend their time together and while holly steer them all home and back to earth . the crew go through a lot of insane adventure and with many obvious and illogical continuity error between episode and but that just one of the many thing that make this such a wonderful program to watch . it do not have to be believable . there be only two thing that have stop me from give this excellent performance a positive . firstly and kristine kochanski and play by chloë annett . i think she be a dreadful actress and who portray the character of kochanski all wrong . at the start of the series and she be play by clare grogan and a small and scottish woman and who although and again and wasn not that good at act and be definitely good than annett . and then and later on and she be replace by chloë annett and a completely different type . she be english and taller and much harsh . not the sort of woman you would imagine lister coo over . her diatribe be certainly less than amuse . apart from that and series 8 be a disaster . bring back the crew of red dwarf be a huge mistake . the plot suddenly become far too serious compare to the outrageous antic that be on show previously . a complete change from the norm and that serve to make me actually think about not watch the next episode . but overall and this be definitely one of the best program ever make and and will continue to be a source of entertainment for many generation . the humour throughout i do not think can ever truly become dated and so the wow factor will always remain .