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Arnold J Rimmer
played by Chris
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Rimmer was a complete and total failure in life
and death. He was 2nd Technician on Red Dwarf though he always
wanted to be an officer. However after sitting and failing his
Asto-navigation exam on no less than 13 occasions and doing
the same with his engineering exam 11 times it was pretty clear
it was not meant to be. The final blow came when he was killed
in the radiation leak that wiped out Red Dwarf as a consequence
of his own failure to seal a drive plate. After his death he
was brought back as a hologram to keep Lister sane.
As well as a failure at his career he has been a failure
in friendships and relationships. He has had only ONE sexual
encounter with the ship's boxing champion Yvonne McGruder
and even then she had concussion. His only real friend has
been Inflatable Rachel and she's now got a puncture. Rimmer's
unpopularity is down to the simple fact that he's a total
Smeghead. His interests include Hammond Organ music, Morris
Dancing and 20th Century telegraph poles. As for his family,
his father hated him and despite Arnold's attempts to make
him proud of him he never once said "Well Done"
to him. His mother also hated him and had no time for idiots
like Arnold, she even called him Rimmer. His brothers were
smart, handsome, brave and intelligent and they bullied Arnold
mercilessly. No wonder Rimmer turned out as he did, at least
that's what he always says.
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Dave Lister
played by Craig
Charles |
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Lister is the last human being alive following the radiation
leak that wiped out Red Dwarf, which he survived due to being
in stasis (deep freeze) for smuggling a cat on board. Lister
is a complete and total slob. He likes nothing better than
to sit around eating Vindaloo and drinking lager all day.
Lister was found under a pool table in a box with the word
Ouroboros on it (he thought for years it was Our Rob or Ross
badly spelled). He grew up in Liverpool where he got involved
with acts such as scrum ping for cars and stealing hotel rooms.
He lost his virginity to Michelle Fisher at the age of 12.
After leaving his job of 10 years in supermarket because he
didn't want to get tied down to a career he ended up aboard
Red Dwarf as a lowly 3rd Technician. Whilst there he met Navigation
officer Kristine Kochanski and had a dream of them having
a farm on Fiji and opening a chain of hot dog and doughnut
diners. Alas this dream was cut short when she was killed
in the radiation leak and ended up 3 million years into deep
space.
After the accident Lister experienced things he never imagined
were possible. He played pool with planets, visited parallel
universes, gave birth to twins, went to a backwards version
of earth, travelled in time, met Hitler, married a GELF (against
his will) and most amazingly he once tasted and edible Pot
Noodle. He also discovered the truth behind his background.
His mum is a version of Kochanski from a different dimension
and his father is HIM.
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Cat
played by Danny
John Jules |
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Cat evolved from Lister's pet cat Frankenstein who was safely
sealed in the hold during the radiation leak aboard Red Dwarf.
Cat is a self-obsessed, vain and superficial character (he
considers these to be his best features). He loves nothing
better than sleeping, eating and looking good. Whilst he likes
most of his crewmates he would still gladly let them die if
saving them meant interrupting his lunch of one of his naps
(of which he must have 9 or 10 so as to have enough energy
for his main snooze.).
He is also very much against doing the W word, or as most
people know it, "work" (He has a note from his Mummy
or so he claims). As the Cat's vanity knows no bounds it's
hardly surprising that he was utterly disgusted when during
their encounter with the Despair Squid a group hallucination
led the crew to believe their whole lives had been a computer
game and The Cat was really a no style geek who wore ironed
flares, a nylon shirt, a cardigan and an anorak, carried a
Thermos and Lunch box and had bucked teeth that druids could
use as a place of worship. Worse still his name was Duane
Dibbley. Thankfully for the Cat it turned out to be a hallucination
though it did almost drive him to suicide because, as he pointed
out, "superficial" IS his middle name.
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Kryten
2X4B-523P (series 2+)
played by Robert
Llewelyn |
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Kryten is a series 4000 Service Mechanoid originally posted
to the SS Nova 5. Sadly the ship crashed killing all the crewmembers
though it took Kryten a few centuries to realise this. He
was eventually rescued by Lister and Co and was taken aboard
Red Dwarf.
Despite the fact that Kryten was quite happy doing the tasks
Rimmer set him, Lister was determined to brake his programming
which he eventually succeeded in doing, this resulted in Kryten
rebelling against Rimmer and leaving on Lister's space bike,
only to fly straight into an asteroid. Lister later repaired
him but he was never the same again.
With Lister's help Kryten learnt to lie, cheat, and develop
emotions of his own much to Rimmer's annoyance because not
only did Kryten have more knowledge in Space Corp Procedure
than him but he also commanded more respect from Lister and
Cat. This droid originally designed to clean toilets now had
a position of authority and respect. Kryten development continued
over the years and the arrival of Kochanski caused new emotions
to surface. Those of anger, resentment and jealousy towards
the new crew member whom he was convinced would lure his beloved
Mr Lister away with all her 'in and out bits'. Not only that
but she put the Salad Cream in the cupboard and her pants
in her socks draw.
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Holly
played by Norman
Lovett [series 1, 2, 7+] and Hattie
Hayridge [series 3 - 6]
Holly is the Red Dwarf computer with an IQ of 6000 (the same
IQ as 6000 PE teachers and 12,000 car park attendants) It
was Holly who alerted Captain Hollister to the presence of
Frankenstein (Lister's Cat) aboard Red Dwarf which led to
Lister getting 18 months in Stasis.
After the crew were wiped out in the radiation leak Holly
was forced to spend the next 3 million years by himself during
which time he want "a bit peculiar" When he finally
released Lister from Stasis he knew Lister needed to be kept
sane with some company. Holly had the ability to recreate
ONE crewmember as a hologram to keep Lister company. He had
a choice of 168 people and there were several Lister would
have been happy with, Peterson, Chen, Selby even his lost
love Kochanski. However for some Holly chose Lister's old
bunkmate Rimmer. The crewmember Lister HATED the most. Ultimately
it proved to be the right choice as Lister was able to stay
sane by winding Rimmer up constantly and, now Rimmer was dead,
it was easier than when he was alive because Rimmer could
no longer put him on report.
Two years into the trek back to Earth Holly invented the
Holly Hop Drive to get them back to Earth instantly. However
it backfired and they ended up in another dimension. There
he met and fell in love with Hilly a female version of him.
On their return to their universe Holly had a head change
to look like Hilly. He remained "a she" for the
next three years until Kryten's nanobots stole Red Dwarf and
restored Holly to his former self and the crew discovered
him 200 years later as a male again. Despite being left to
rot for two centuries Holly had lost nothing he was back and
kicking bottom.
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Kristine Kochanski
(series 1, 2, 7+)
played by Clare
Grogan [series 1-2] and Chloë
Annett [series 7+]
Kochanski was the navigation officer aboard Red Dwarf and
also the object of Lister's affections. Lister always had
a dream of living with her on a farm on Fiji and owning a
chain of hot dog and doughnut diners. Alas she died before
he could tell her of the plan.
Years later whilst investigating a dimensional tear the
crew encountered another version of Kochanski who had survived
the accident because she had discovered Frankenstein (Lister's
pet cat) and had taken him to be disintegrated. Unfortunately
she couldn't do it, they found the cat and she got the 18
months in stasis that Lister should have had. She was released
3 million years later to find herself the last human being
alive. To keep her sane Holly (the ship's computer) brought
back her ex-boyfriend Dave Lister as a hologram. Being a hologram
changed Lister and made him more sensitive and less of a slob.
He became tasteful and sophisticated and Kochanski fell in
love with him all over again.
Whilst the two crews were talking, a GELF ship carrying Lister's
jilted wife away attacked the link and Kochanski was caught
on the wrong side with our Lister and a very jealous Kryten
who was determined to get rid of her before she could turn
Lister's head with her 'in and out bits'. Gradually Kris has
settled into life aboard our Red Dwarf but she still dreams
of one day going home to her much better Lister.
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Captain Hollister
(series 1, 2, 8)
played by Mac
McDonald
Captain Hollister is the Captain of Red Dwarf. It was he
who sentenced Lister to 18 months in stasis before he was
killed along with his crew in the radiation leak. He was later
resurrected by Kryten's nanobots. To say that Hollister thinks
Rimmer is stupid would be an understatement. He has described
Rimmer as "astoundingly zealous, possibly mad and probably
has more teeth than brain cells", Rimmer likewise thinks
his captain is small minded petty thinking modo but still
respects him and sucks up to him (this is despite the fact
his family crest is made up of two cream buns and a profiterole).
Rimmer would still love be a thinner less bloated version
of Hollister.
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Ackerman (series
8)
played by Graham
McTavish
Ackerman is the warden in the Brig on Red Dwarf or the Tank,
as it's known. Ackerman is a nasty piece of work despite his
insistence that he is in fact lovely and that his nickname
is "Nicey Ackerman". Within minutes of arriving
in the Tank the Dwarfers managed to get on the wrong side
of him when Cat said he seemed a nice guy without asking Ackerman's
permission.
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