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Back To Reality (Red Dwarf)
"Back to Reality" is the sixth and final episode of the fifth series of science fiction sitcom ''Red Dwarf'', and the 30th in the series' run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 26 March 1992, written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor and directed by Juliet May and Grant Naylor. The plot features the crew waking up after a crash to discover that the last four years of their lives has been spent in a "Total Immersion Video Game" called ''Red Dwarf''. This episode marks the final appearance of Hattie Hayridge as Holly. The episode often tops polls and surveys as the best episode in the entire series.Survey Results, Red Dwarf Smegazine, issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, Plot Dave Lister, Arnold Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat take a ''Starbug'' to investigate the wreckage of a ship called SSS ''Esperanto'' on an ocean-covered moon. The group discover that the ship was conducting marine seeding experiments that included accelerating the evolution of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Dwarf
A red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence. Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of fusing star in the Milky Way, at least in the neighborhood of the Sun. However, due to their low luminosity, individual red dwarfs are not easily observed. Not one star that fits the stricter definitions of a red dwarf is visible to the naked eye. Proxima Centauri, the star nearest to the Sun, is a red dwarf, as are fifty of the sixty nearest stars. According to some estimates, red dwarfs make up three-quarters of the fusing stars in the Milky Way. The coolest red dwarfs near the Sun have a surface temperature of about and the smallest have radii about 9% that of the Sun, with masses about 7.5% that of the Sun. These red dwarfs have spectral types of L0 to L2. There is some overlap with the properties of brown dwarfs, since the most massive brown dwarfs at lower metallicity can be as hot as and have late M spectral types. Definitions and usage of the term "red d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kryten
Kryten is a fictional character in the British science fiction situation comedy ''Red Dwarf''. The name ''Kryten'' is a reference to the head butler in the J.M. Barrie play ''The Admirable Crichton''. Originally referred to as a Series III mechanoid, he is later described as a 4000 Series, or Series 4000. In their original plan for the series, Rob Grant and Doug Naylor had specified that there would be no aliens and no robots. Following the success of the first appearance by the Kryten character, Naylor convinced Grant to bring him back. In the character's first appearance, originally only intended as a one-off, Kryten was played by actor David Ross but the popularity of the character meant that Kryten was introduced as a regular in Series III. The intention was to bring Ross back to play the role, but he was not available at the time and the position was filled by actor Robert Llewellyn. David Ross later returned to voice Talkie Toaster in the series IV episode "White Hole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Emmy Award
The International Emmy Awards, or International Emmys, are part of the extensive range of Emmy Awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. Bestowed by the New York City, New York–based International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (IATAS), the International Emmys are presented in recognition to the best television programs initially produced and aired outside the United States. The awards are presented at the International Emmy Awards Gala, held annually in November in New York City. It attracts over 1,200 television professionals. The first International Emmys ceremony was held in 1st International Emmy Awards, 1973, expanding what was originally a U.S.-only Emmy Award. History When the first Emmy Award ceremony took place on January 25, 1949, it only recognized programming produced in the United States. Founded in 1969, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (''IATAS'') is a membership based organization of leading media a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polymorph (Red Dwarf)
"Polymorph" is the third episode of science fiction sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' Series III, and the fifteenth in the series run. It premiered on the British television channel BBC2 on 28 November 1989. It is considered by some to be the series' best.Readers Survey Results, Red Dwarf Smegazine, p. 27., issue 10, December 1992, Fleetway Editions Ltd, Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye, the episode has the crew fighting a shapeshifting, emotion-stealing creature. It is the only ''Red Dwarf'' episode to feature a pre-credits warning about the content. The episode was re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998. Plot A non-human life-form with shape-changing properties escapes from a waste pod floating in space and gets aboard ''Red Dwarf''. Although Holly ( Hattie Hayridge) detects it, despite scepticism by Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie) that it's a false alarm, the creature attacks Dave Lister (Craig Charles) while he is having a meal. As Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Barber
Frances Barber (née Brookes, born 13 May 1958) is an English actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for her work in the plays '' Camille'' (1985), and '' Uncle Vanya'' (1997). Her film appearances include three collaborations with Gary Oldman in '' Prick Up Your Ears'' (1987), '' We Think the World of You'' (1988) and '' Dead Fish'' (2005); as well as '' Sammy and Rosie Get Laid'' (1987); '' Soft Top Hard Shoulder'' (1992); and latterly '' Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool'' (2017). Barber's numerous television credits include '' The Street'' (2009), ''Doctor Who'' (2011), ''Silk'' (2012–2014), and '' Whitstable Pearl'' (2021–2022). Life and career Barber was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. Her parents are S.W. Brookes and Gladys Simpson; Barber is the fourth of six children. She attended the Wolverhampton Municipal Grammar School. Barber studied drama at the University College of North Wales in Bangor, where she was a contemporary of director Danny B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Peaks
''Twin Peaks'' is an American Surrealist cinema, surrealist Mystery film, mystery-Horror film, horror Drama (film and television), drama television series created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. It Pilot (Twin Peaks), premiered on American Broadcasting Company, ABC on April 8, 1990, and ran for two seasons until its cancellation in Episode 29 (Twin Peaks), 1991. The show Part 1 (Twin Peaks), returned in 2017 for a Twin Peaks season 3, third season on Showtime (TV network), Showtime. Set in the fictional Pacific Northwest town of Twin Peaks (fictional town), Twin Peaks, the series follows an investigation led by FBI special agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) into the murder of local teenager Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). The show's narrative draws on the characteristics of detective fiction, but its uncanny tone, supernatural elements, and Camp (style), campy, melodramatic portrayal of eccentric characters also draw from American horror film, horror and soap opera tropes. Like much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Llewellyn
Robert Llewellyn (born 10 March 1956) is a British actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He plays the Android (robot), mechanoid Kryten in the Science fiction, sci-fi television sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' and formerly presented the engineering gameshow ''Scrapheap Challenge''. He has also founded and hosts a YouTube series, ''Fully Charged'', which has grown into a company that puts on EV and "Everything Electric" conventions in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Europe. Early life and career Llewellyn was born in Northampton, England. Llewellyn's first foray into the world of show business started out as a hobby, organising a few amateur cabaret evenings in a riverside warehouse overlooking Tower Bridge in London. The shows were a great success and he eventually helped form an alternative comedy theatre group called The Joeys. Within six months, he had stopped working as a Shoemaking, shoemaker and started performing professionally with the group alongside Bernie Evans, Nigel Ordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittas Empire
''The Brittas Empire'' is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie played titular character Gordon Brittas, the well-intentioned but hugely incompetent manager of the fictional Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 52 episodes – including two Christmas specials – from 3 January 1991 to 24 February 1997 on BBC One, BBC1. Creators Norriss and Fegen co-wrote the first five series. The series peaked at 10 million viewers. ''The Brittas Empire'' enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained large mainstream audiences. In 2004, the show came 47th on the BBC's ''Britain's Best Sitcom'' poll, and all series have been released on DVD both individually as series and as a complete boxset. ''Best of the Britcoms'' noted the series has been hailed as "the ''Fawlty Towers'' of the 1990s" due to its "fast-paced, outrageous [comedy] full of inventive gags". The creators Andrew Norriss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Barrie
Chris Barrie (born Christopher Jonathan Brown; 28 March 1960) is a British actor and comedian. He worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show '' Spitting Image'' (1984–1996) and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001) and '' Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'' (2003). Barrie starred as Arnold Rimmer in 13 series of the sci-fi space comedy ''Red Dwarf'' between 1988 and 2020, and as Gordon Brittas in seven series of the BBC leisure centre sitcom '' The Brittas Empire'' (1991–1997). Early life and career Barrie was born on 28 March 1960 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, to a father who was serving in the British Army, and later attended Methodist College, a boarding school, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. After dropping out of his Combined Studies course at Brighton Polytechnic, he became a grave filler. He began his television career as a sports personality impersonator on '' The David Essex Showcase'' in 1982. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly (Red Dwarf)
Holly is a fictional character in the science fiction situation comedy ''Red Dwarf''. The character, who is the eponymous spaceship's onboard computer, has been played by Norman Lovett (series I-II, VII-VIII, XII, The Promised Land) and Hattie Hayridge (series III-V). Actors ''Red Dwarf'', written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, was first televised in 1988, and was an iteration of Grant and Naylor's ''Dave Hollins - Space Cadet'', which was a regular segment on the BBC Radio 4 show ''Son of Cliche''. In the Radio version, Hollins was the last surviving human and had only the computer Hab, by Chris Barrie, for company. For the television series, Hollins was renamed as Dave Lister, Hab was renamed as Holly, and the cast was expanded. In the script for the pilot episode, Holly was female, but when Norman Lovett, a man, auditioned for the role of Arnold Rimmer, he was instead offered the role of Holly and accepted it. The role was to have been only as a voiceover, but at Lovett's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duane Dibbley
This is a list of characters from the TV sitcom ''Red Dwarf''. Major characters Overview Details Alter egos Ace Rimmer Arnold "Ace" Rimmer is an alter-ego of Arnold Rimmer, also played by Chris Barrie. Ace first appears in the episode "Dimension Jump (Red Dwarf episode), Dimension Jump" (S4,E5) and is the antithesis of Rimmer. He is modest despite being a popular, knowledgeable, charming, daredevil hero. He comes from a seemingly perfect universe, in which Rimmer and Lister lived happy, successful lives and were good friends. Ace's childhood paralleled Rimmer's up until the age of seven, when one of them was kept down a year at school while the other was not. The one kept down became Ace, who claimed that the shame of being a clear foot taller than his classmates inspired him to buckle down, fight back, and work hard, while Arnold spent the rest of his life making excuses for his many failures. Ace travels from planet to planet wearing a gold, fur-lined flight suit a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fascist
Fascism ( ) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement. It is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Opposed to communism, democracy, liberalism, pluralism, and socialism, fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Fascism rose to prominence in early-20th-century Europe. The first fascist movements emerged in Italy during World War I, before spreading to other European countries, most notably Germany. Fascism also had adherents outside of Europe. Fascists saw World War I as a revolution that brought massive changes to the nature of war, society, the state, and technology. The advent of total war and the mass mobilization of so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
