Red Dwarf Comes to iTunes

Earlier this week, I offered up a pile of tie-in novels for some of my favorite British scifi shows. In keeping with that theme, here’s an announcement about the very funny British scifi series Red Dwarf.

For the first time ever, starting TODAY, you can get all eight seasons of Red Dwarf on iTunes.

Not familiar with the show? Here’s how the BBC describes it:

Red Dwarf tells the saga of chicken soup machine repairman, Dave Lister, the show’s anti-hero. Lister is put into stasis for smuggling his pet cat Frankenstein aboard ship. After three million years, he emerges to find that he is the last human being in the universe. But he is not alone…

Over the three million years Lister was in stasis, Frankenstein has evolved into a James Brown-esque human Cat, and Holly, the ship’s A.I. central computer, has resurrected Lister’s anal-retentive, fastidious bunkmate, Arnold Rimmer, to keep him company. From the outset, the show’s writers took hold of the staples of science fiction and gave them a good shake. Other sci-fi series may have rogue robots, body swapping and quantum leaping, but never before have the heroes been so un-heroic. Or, as Lister so memorably put it, “Don’t give me the Star Trek crap. It’s too early in the morning.” The first season cast includes Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John Jules and Norman Lovett.

Think Futurama meets Monty Python and you’ll be getting close to this cult classic series. Try one episode, or buy them all – head over to iTunes and you could be watching Red Dwarf five minutes from now.

Photo: BBC America