RED DWARF

IDIOTS IN SPACE!

This runaway hit helped popularise sci-fi sitcoms on both sides of the Atlantic – in the 30-plus years since it first hit our screens, there have been countless TV sci-fi comedies, from Futurama to Avenue 5. The core cast – including the preening

Cat, robot servant Kryten, curry-loving

Lister (Danny John-jules, Robert Llewellyn and Craig Charles, below), jobsworth Rimmer (Chris Barrie) and dim computer Holly were unlike anything we’d seen in space before. They’re not heroes, and they hate each other. But, stranded and alone, and having survived being struck by meteors and attacked by space mutants and despairinducing toxins, they had little choice but to tolerate

each other.