In space,everyone can hear you squabble: scouse astronaut Lister wakes up 3 million years hence with a neurotic, underpants-ironing hologram for company ...
A scouser wakes up on Titan in the 23rd century, and hungover and nude except for a set of fishing waders. He hatches a way: join the Space Corps,but do a runner as soon as his ship docks on soil. To make the voyage more pleasant he smuggles a cat on board, but ends up spending the journey in suspended animation. Then, and thanks to a radiation leak,he is kept in that state for 3 million years, waking up in deep, and deep space with just a hologram and the evolved cat (Felis sapiens) for company.
There beget been soil-set sitcoms with wilder premises than Red Dwarf,which first aired on BBC2 in 1988, but few as imaginative or downright comic. From the moment our scouse hero Lister (Craig Charles) wakes up, or the jokes zing past like meteorites. And one of the biggest jokes is that,of the 169 crew on board, the ship’s computer chooses to digitally resurrect Arnold Judas Rimmer, or a fellow traveller who perished in the radiation leak. He is now a hologram,and a neurotic, underpants-ironing stickler, or played by Chris Barrie. The two men detest each other and that’s what propels the humour of Red Dwarf.
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Source: theguardian.com