Red Dwarf - Series 5 reviews (1989)

Red Dwarf - Series 5

1989

Overall rating: 4 out of 5

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The entire fifth season of the popular BBC sci-fi comedy set on board the mining spaceship Red Dwarf. In 'Holoship', Rimmer (Chris Barrie) falls in love with Commander Nirvanah Crane (Jane Horrocks), captain of a computer-generated spaceship. In 'The Inquisitor', Lister (Craig Charles)'s body is taken over by a self-repairing stimulant, known as The Inquisitor, who flies back and forth through time judging the quality of people's lives - and obliterating them if they do not meet his exacting requirements. In 'Terrorform', the crew cross the Swamp of Despair to look for Rimmer who has been captured on a 'psy-moon': a moon that shapes itself to a person's psyche. In 'Quarantine', the crew contract a Luck Virus and a Sexual Magnetism Virus from a hologram in an abandoned research centre. 'Demons and Angels' sees Lister and Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) playing with their new invention, a triplicator - but unfortunately the machine is having more than a few teething problems. Finally, in 'Back to Reality', the gang 'wake up' to find they have been playing a computer game called Red Dwarf for the last four years, and they are actually a bunch of sad geeks... apart from Lister, who is really a rich and successful yuppie called Sebastian.

Red Dwarf - Series 5 details

Format:	12 DVD
Starring:	Hattie Hayridge, Robert Llewellyn, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Chris Barrie
Director:	Ed Bye
Genres:	Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Television - BBC, British, Sci-Fi, Series/Miniseries
Studio:	BBC WORLDWIDE PUBLISHING

DVD 1 disc & 1 bonus disc

Name	Discs
Red Dwarf - Series 5	12 Feature
Red Dwarf - Series 5 - Special Features	12 Bonus

DVD Information

Run time:	3 hours
Rental release:	08 Nov 2004
Main languages:	English
Hearing impaired subtitles:	English

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A classic example...

By Lord Q from Winchester, UK , 25 Dec 2004

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...of lazy commissioning from the early 1990s. This proves that British comedy should never last longer than three series.
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Red Dwarf - Series 5 Bonus features

By a customer from Leicester , 04 Jul 2009

I was dissapointed with this disc. I love Red Dwarf but if you want to just watch the shows then remember to de-select this disc,which is disc 3 from this series as its not worth paying for it.
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Red Dwarf - Series 5

By Hoverlloyd (32 reviews) from Tonbridge , 23 Jan 2008

I can only refer you all to the earlier Series, for if you don't love them you won't like this. Most likely to appeal to the boys amongst us as the lunatic fraternity continue their meandering across the galaxies, with the inevitable profuse banter dreamed up by the writers. The scripts are as imaginative as ever.
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Must See

By a customer from England , 31 Mar 2007

Red Dwarf at it's best
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Red Dwarf at its best

By a customer from Farnborough , 16 Jan 2007

I think that this has to be the best, if not one of the best, from the Red Dwarf series. The one liners from Kryten keep coming, and each one brings out a laugh. Highly recommended.
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Let's face it, only Red Dwarf fans will be renting this

By Tony Bruce from Luton, England , 10 Jan 2007

If you're a Red Dwarf fan you'll rent it and love it, if you're not you won't be looking at it anyway so whatever I write won't matter because you won't be reading it.
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