r/RedDwarf • • 7h ago

Smegpost Sunday How election looked like in Czech republic

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I need to share one post which appeared on Facebook two weeks ago. Instead of ticking on the chosen candidate on the election list, one of our citizens voted like this. Not sure if he saluted and fainted too, or wrote anything about fish. I think he's the real winner of the election. (Photo by Aleš Jeník - thank you for making my day)


r/RedDwarf • • 8h ago

Smegpost Sunday Gazpacho Coop.

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Just bought a car that looks like a coupé and the last 3 digits of the reg plate make you think of a certain soup - so I've nicknamed it "Gazpacho Coop"

If only it were red.


r/RedDwarf • • 8h ago

Smegpost Sunday Are you sure sir? It does mean changing the bulb.

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r/RedDwarf • • 1d ago

The Shows Restart #2 since he passed.

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Hubby and I only really talked because we both knew of the show. I had it on my Tinder profile and he matched when he saw it. Since then it's the show we watched when we couldn't agree on what to watch at dinner. We quoted it to each other.

In May 2026 he had a heart attack and passed. Everything in my life changed. I moved. I downsized. I cried (still do). I thought I lost everything that really could bring me to smile.

One day I was going through his phone, for some important info for car insurance, I noticed he had downloaded the entire series. All 12. Everything was there in the "to watch" folder.

So for each night I would put on an episode or two. Smile, quote the show, then fall asleep before the credits. It makes me feel less lonely.

Last night I finished the season. Which means tonight I start all over again.


r/RedDwarf • • 1d ago

The Shows Nearly finished the whole box set

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I'm on red dwarf series xi now then the making


r/RedDwarf • • 1d ago

Question/Discussion Chris Barrie Meet and Greet today.

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Today I had the immense privilege of sitting around a table with Chris Barrie, alongside just two other people, for an hour-long conversation. Difficult for me to not be just a tad star-struck…!

We spent most of the time talking about Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire, with Chris sharing some fantastic stories and insights from his career.
He was an absolute delight, incredibly down to earth, engaging, and a brilliant storyteller.
He also mentioned a few interesting things about Red Dwarf, including a previously scrapped prequel idea which would have seen a younger actor playing Arnold Rimmer, with Chris himself taking on the role of Rimmer’s father!

From what he was saying, it sounds as though the current thinking is to move forward with more feature-length specials rather than traditional episodic series (the nature of TV funding being what it is..) There was also mention of a potential Red Dwarf theatre production being worked on, but there were no real details mentioned.

Obviously, take all of this with a pinch of salt! These were things mentioned during an informal conversation, not official announcements. Plans can and very likely will change, so please don’t take any of it as confirmation of what’s coming.

All in all, a genuinely memorable experience, and one I feel incredibly fortunate to have had.
A huge thank you to X-Con for making this opportunity possible!


r/RedDwarf • • 2d ago

The Shows Not responding to treatment! 😂

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Made me laugh so much! 🤣


r/RedDwarf • • 2d ago

Question/Discussion Future Lister in season one lost his arm to the Epideme virus!

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555 Upvotes

I know he didn’t, and this is just coincidence and not foreshadowing, but I love the idea that old Lister did lose his arm in the same way that our Lister did but for some reason didn’t have it remade by the nanobots. Years of foreshadowing right there on screen.

But realistically, they probably just thought it was a cool aesthetic to go for.


r/RedDwarf • • 2d ago

The Shows I've still got it, sir!

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r/RedDwarf • • 2d ago

Question/Discussion Scariest monster

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Rewatching the series and appreciating it's darker side, I was also thinking aboit the whole "monster of the week" tendency, and a question occurred to me. Which is the scariest monster that the boys from the Dwarf encounter?

Part of the comedy value of the show is the way that most of the monsters are all a bit silly, comically low tech, and so on. But which monster - either in terms of what they do in the episode or the premise of their character - is the most "scary", unsettling one in your mind?


r/RedDwarf • • 2d ago

The Shows Casablanca - the definitive version

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Went to a Show Racism the Red Card event in my city today. Peter Beardsley was there. I'm not particularly into football but I'm afraid to say I did not pluck up enough courage to ask him about his time filming Casablanca alongside the legendary Myra Binglebatt...


r/RedDwarf • • 2d ago

Question/Discussion Does anyone have this photo of Robert Llewellyn smoking on set? He mentions it in The Man in the Rubber Mask and I am most curious

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r/RedDwarf • • 3d ago

Question/Discussion Did anyone notice the unintended Red Dwarf reference in The Traitors tonight?

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r/RedDwarf • • 3d ago

The Shows Red Dwarf Night 1998 in its entirety.

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r/RedDwarf • • 3d ago

The Shows Completed my personel Red dwarf Season 1- 7 Omnibus upscale , each season converted to back to back series movies around 2.5 hours per season with intros and credits only once at start and end of movies. All holy cold opens remain.

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r/RedDwarf • • 3d ago

The Shows If, one day, the universe is going to explode...

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r/RedDwarf • • 3d ago

The Cast Young smouldering Chris Barrie :-o

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r/RedDwarf • • 3d ago

The Shows Happy 100th Birthday Winnie the Pooh!

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r/RedDwarf • • 3d ago

Question/Discussion Cant Smeg Won't Smeg Red Dwarf Cooking show

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I've watched this a few times. A hidden gem hope you like it


r/RedDwarf • • 4d ago

The Shows The legendary sandwich.

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r/RedDwarf • • 4d ago

The Shows This just came up on air

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I've been listening to my station that specialises in rock, metal, punk etc. Really focused on new stuff.

The presenter was talking about someone introducing their child to red dwarf, and played this saying "what's the point in having your own radio station if you can't play what you want".


r/RedDwarf • • 4d ago

The Books Found in storage unit.

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Me and my late hubby had a storage unit for over 10yrs. Found this in a box of other old books and magazines.


r/RedDwarf • • 5d ago

Question/Discussion Despair squid

40 Upvotes

Anyone else getting despair squid vibes watching the new Netflix show ‘Below’? 😂 wonder if the writers are Smegheads


r/RedDwarf • • 5d ago

Question/Discussion Red Dwarf and Bunny Vs Monkey

16 Upvotes

My kids read bunny vs monkey books and I am sure the characters are based on Red Dwarf?


r/RedDwarf • • 5d ago

The Shows Relating Red Dwarf to my Philosophy Classes. From the original books to the show.

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A Jungian Reading of the Four Main Characters in Red Dwarf

I propose that the central quartet of Red Dwarf can be productively read as a single psyche mapped onto Jungian functions, forced into a long-term process of integration.

  • Dave Lister represents the conscious Self (and, in the novels, is ultimately revealed to occupy an even higher ontological position).
  • Arnold Rimmer corresponds to the shadow and neurotic complex — the persistent, self-sabotaging, status-oriented material of the personal unconscious.
  • Kryten functions as the rational / thinking function: orderly, ethical within his programming, and continually attempting to impose coherent structure.
  • The Cat embodies pure ego and instinctual self-image — immediate, aesthetic, and largely unreflective.

The premise of the series — four distinct psychological components sealed together in a confined environment with no possibility of permanent escape — creates the conditions for integration. The prolonged physical and narrative proximity acts as a binding force (metaphorically gravitational or electromagnetic), compelling the previously fragmented parts into closer relationship. Over the course of the television series and the novels, the characters demonstrably move from mutual antagonism toward greater coherence and mutual reliance.

This reading is consistent with the Hermetic principle “as above, so below”: the same pattern of differentiation followed by reintegration appears both at the level of the individual psyche and in the literal situation of the crew.

I have not encountered this specific four-function mapping elsewhere in discussion of the series. It accounts for both the comic surface and the surprisingly persistent underlying structure of character development across the years.