Just going to point out, Rimmer being a hologram isn't a parody of Star Trek - Red Dwarf having holographic crew was 8 years before Star Trek got it's first holographic crewman.
If I remember correctly there were 5 seasons. Some people keep talking about more seasons, but they tend to be the same people who insist there is more than one Matrix movie, so I don’t think they should be believed!
OMG!..... I didn't think I'd _EVER_ see anyone reacting to "Red Dwarf." One of the very best British SciFi comedies of all time. I truly hope you will watch the whole thing.
Red Dwarf is a National treasure . Patrick Stewart introduced a tribute evening when it's BBC run ended . So glad you gals are giving it a try . The first series is more of a scene setter and it changes a bit with each series it's a delicious mix of sci-fi and comedy .
When Patrick Stewart saw his 1st episode, after 5 min's want to call his lawyer and sue the show. But he watched a bit more and realised it was a comedy show and was a complete parody of all SiFi shows.
There actually is, as of now, 12 seasons of Red Dwarf, though there were breaks in there, but it became such a cult classic that they brought it back. It is one of the craziest, greatest, parody shows of all time. One of those things that you either love, or you go "what the hell is that?" There are some real gem of episodes as well. And I am VERY HERE for you guys watching more Red Dwarf! :)
"What did we just get ourselves into?" OH YOU DONT EVEN KNOW, its gonna get so good, and then bad, and then good again, and then all over the place. Its wonderful :D
Chris Barrie was also an impressionist on the popular satirical show Spitting Image, he voiced the puppet Ronald Reagan and John Coleman, who was a football commentator on BBC TV. He voiced other puppets too and I believe one of the writers of Red Dwarf wrote for Spitting Image originally, although I may be wrong.
Oh, HELL YEAH! Now this will be worth your time! I would advise, be patient with it. The first couple seasons are okay, but they're very dialogue-heavy. Season 3 is where things really kick into the best the show has to offer. Funny story, Patrick Stewart was back in the UK on a break from filming Star Trek, and he stumbled upon this show as it was airing. He immediately thought it was a TNG knockoff, and was about to call his lawyer, but then he started to laugh at the jokes. Before he knew it, he was fully invested in the show and saw it for the original idea it really was.
Thats not the only Star Trek link. Terry Farrell aka Jadzia Dax was cast as Cat in a 2nd US pilot for NBC/Universal. A full year before being cast on ds9.
Wonderful! Wanted to reply to this and upvote instead of saying basically the same thing in another comment. Season 2 is better than 1, but (for me) seasons 3-6 is some of the best, smartest and most inventive writing around. Takes a bit of a dip in those later years, but hey - right now, you've all the best bits to come........
@@TheBreadthatcausedLesMis and while it's not directly relevant, the role of the Cat in the other pilot was played by Hinton Battle (who fans of Buffy will remember as the dancing demon "Sweet" in the musical episode).
I had the same reaction as you gals when I first saw Red Dwarf. My wife and I were watching PBS, and it was the next show to air. We had never heard of it before and had absolutely no idea what we were in for, but settled down to watch this strange little sci-fi comedy. We were hooked the instant we met the Cat, still our favorite character. In fact, whenever I have seafood for dinner, I am liable to start singing, "I'm gonna eat you, little fishy." Don't worry. You'll understand the reference soon enough as you watch the series.
I grew up on the Third through Fifth Doctor, Red Dwarf, and the six episode Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC miniseries they did in 1980. I have had unreasonably high standards for television ever since.
I would say you probably have reasonably high standards, these shows did it without the budget, so it's fully possible to produce good entertainment without a crux of a massive budget, and it's disappointing when shows fail to live up their potential and then blame it on the budget. (of course most of the shows you mentioned got lucky, because they didn't have a high budget, that the studio/production interference was minimal and they were allowed to be themselves--and yes I know that Doctor Who did have a lot of studio interference at different times, but they manage to muddle through them.)
@@cardsfanboy My local PBS station did a big thing for the start of the 5th doctor, and then when they ran out of episodes of that they started playing the third doctor from the beginning (and eventually into 4th) until more 5th episodes were available. By the time of Candyman and Yellow Kangs and "Why is 7 dangling off that balcony by his umbrella for no obvious reason" I had a lot of Dr. Who context. (And was introduced to the first two via The Three Doctors and The Five Doctors.) I'm aware there's a filtering effect where stuff like Monty Python and Yes Minister and Cadfael made it across the pond, and most episodes of EastEnders didn't. The BBC did six episodes of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about the same time NBC did six episodes of Police Squad, and it's apples and oranges trying to figure out which is funnier. But over here Police Squad got buried by network interference (The people who made airplane did a TV show starring Leslie Nielsen!) while Hitchhiker's Guide was presented on PBS as an exotic delight. And Hitchhiker's was always _intended_ to be six episodes, while Police Squad got the Firefly treatment by its network.
@@myphone4590 my pbs started with the 4th doctor, but more or less the same thing, we got the fourth doctor, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and eventually the Hitchikers guide. (our non-affiliated local tv station got Benny Hill and Prisoner Cell Block H) My point is that you got to watch good quality shows without a budget, and you were saying you might have unrealistic expectations, and I was agreeing with you in a way, but arguing that your expectations aren't really unrealistic in that these shows we are talking about are good despite their budget. So a reasonable expectation is that a show can be good without a budget. And often times when a showrunner takes a quality source material and fails to make something good, they blame it on the lack of budget, when it's perfectly obvious that a budget doesn't determine quality as we've seen good shows without it, succeed.
Police Squad was great , better than the films really with the running gags .Loved the shoe shine snitch . Hitchhiker was good with the clever animations and most of theoriginal radio cast . The radio series is audio delight , stimulating the imagination and the cast are terrific - and easy on tired eyes .
They have absolutely NO IDEA what they've just gotten themselves into - and I'm HERE for it! Background: I discovered Red Dwarf in a very similar way and quickly fell for it.
I'm glad you want to watch the rest of this. I have a soft spot for the first two seasons, but it definitely kicks up a gear from season 3 onwards - you can notice the higher budget particularly.
There's a joke on The Good Place about a British television show that ran for 16 years on the BBC and had almost 30 episodes. I'm sure that could be a reference to several British sitcoms, but it always makes me think of Red Dwarf.
Have you considered trying a show called _Blake's 7?_ It was British SF from 70s and 80s, created by Terry Nation, who was a prominent Dr Who writer (creator of the Daleks). In style it is a bit like 70s Dr Who, but a bit more mature. Very good.
YESSS! I freaking grew UP with the boys from the Dwarf! I've been wanting someone to react to this for years! And I'd LOVE to see you react to how the show evolves over the years! THANK YOU!!!
We did start to use them later, and honestly the balancing of the laughing in a lot of our shows including RD is a little high, but that's to a modern audience who is used to shows without them now.
There are actually 12/13 seasons of Red Dwarf, including a couple of movies. After season 1 the acting and story really gets nailed down, the remastered versions of seasons 1-3 are honestly better quality than the originals, with some fixed/added audio effects. There was an attempt to make an American version of this show, but all i know about it was that it was apparently so bad, that it was cancelled after the pilot episode, or soon after. They didn’t use the original cast, and they had Terri Farrell (Jadzia Dax from DS9) playing the Cat.
@@abigailslade3824 Yeah, I just always prefer to say 'season' since it's easier to say 'seasons' than 'serieses'. I'm from the UK myself but I just always say 'season'.
@@twofacetoo75 well series is like sheep both singular and plural so you don’t need to mutilate the language, if it’s an American show I say season if it’s British I use series.
This has been one of my favorite series for forty years. As an American I have been watching British comedies since the 70's here is a short list of my favorites. Red Dwarf Yes, Minister Good Life To the Manor Born The Thin Blue Line Plus another dozen Red Dwarf is a wild ride with a lot of crazy characters.
I love Red Dwarf and I am absolutely down for this. 😃. The first season episodes are done on a relatively small scale and low budget but the stories become more ambitious (and funnier) in season two and they really hit their stride with season three. You're going to have a lot of fun reacting to this.
Red Dwarf is one of my favourite shows of all time, been watching since I was a young child. I was lucky enough to go to two of the audience recordings for the modern era of the show (One of which was the first part of the 2020 TV Movie), always glad to see new people discovering the show.
Yes, they did the Doctor Who thing, where they came back later. So basically there is 12 seasons. Enjoy the ride! Side note from Wiki: Peter Carlo Bessone Raymond OBE (born Raimondo Pietro Carlo Bessone; 11 May 1911 - 17 April 1992), known as Raymond Bessone and also as Mr Teasy-Weasy, Teasie Weasie Raymond and various combinations of these, was a British hairdresser from the 1930s to the 1960s.[2]
OMG! So glad you're reacting to Red Dwarf as it's what kept us sci fi Brits going when Doctor Who got cancelled in 1989. As you loved S1 E1 you'll definately love all that's yet to come. You could call yourself GALS from the Dwarf or GALS in Red.
I like "gals from the Dwarf", although it doesn't fit their "get [X]ed" naming scheme. They didn't come here looking for trouble, they just came to do the Red Dwarf shuffle. She's smart! She's smart!
The laughter was indeed an audience, they filmed the entire thing in the BBC canteen and dragged a load of people out of a pub across the road to view it live. The show was made on a incredibly low budget but this somehow worked for it.
@@solrachernandez3389 they filmed series 7 without an audience, then showed the episodes to an audience and recorded their reaction for the laugh track.
@@JakobLumley1978 Yes, I can confirm that there were live audiences for the later seasons since I was in the audience for some of the season 10 episodes. Tom Price, who played PC Andy Davidson in Torchwood, was the warm up act, getting the audience into the mood prior to the actual filming starting.
Series 1 - 6 were all in front of studio audience Series 7 was shown to an audience after filming & their reaction was recorded & added in post production Series 8 - back to live studio audience Back To Earth - no laugh track at all Series 10 - 12 - live audience Promised Land - live audience but filmed over 2 nights, so the audience changed halfway through
Red Dwarf is epic. For your information, the first two seasons were filmed with a live studio audience, and then the higher budget and CG/model work of season 3 required them to record the episode and then later recorded the audience reacting to it. Not technically a true 'laugh track' but effectively is. One of the best British comedies out there. Mac McDonald, Capt. Hollister, was also in the movie 'Aliens' as the station head talking about communications with Earth in the early part of the film.
When I met my now wife, I spent a weekend showing her Red Dwarf. At the time, she worked in childcare. She went to work on the Monday and kept saying SMEG all the time. Next weekend I showed her Billy Connolly... She was lucky to have a job after that.
Red Dwarf has been my favorite TV show since the early 90s when they played the early seasons on PBS on Saturday evenings! So excited to see some Doctor Who fans get into the Dwarf for the first time!!! We'll be watching!
Red Dwarf is the best. Used to tape it every Wednesday in the 80s when doing my paper route and then watching it after. Absolutely love this show. And season 1 is great especially "Me2".
I originally stumbled on Red Dwarf by accident. I was visiting my sister's, and she and my wife decided to go out shopping. I was flipping through channels, and just happened to run across the first episode near the beginning. It hooked me right away. After it ended, there was another episode. I had tuned into the local PBS station, which was in its pledge week, during which they always ran a marathon of Red Dwarf. When my wife got back, I told her that she had to see this, and she was hooked too( I was fairly sure she would be, as we both loved the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books). We've both been fans since, and have all the series on DVD/blu-ray.
I'm totally Smegged!!! I Love Red Dwarf! I first discovered it on my local PBS station in the 90's and watched it since. Thank you, Gals, and thanks to Ftrefly for suggesting this. Now to jump to Patreon to see the full episode,
The book puts a different slant on the photo with the cat. In that Lister gets drunk and wakes up on Red Dwarf being put into stasis for 18 months is a way to get back to earth without being stuck on the ship for a year and a half. He actually ensures she has all the innoculations necessary to avoid putting the crew at risk and only sends the photo because he has her on the ship for awhile without anyone noticing.
I can't say I'm a regular viewer, but I've tuned in here and there for the odd Doctor Who reaction. You can rest assured I'll be tuning in regularly for this, because it's absolutely smegging brilliant!
Just going to point out, Rimmer being a hologram isn't a parody of Star Trek - Red Dwarf having holographic crew was 8 years before Star Trek got it's first holographic crewman.
Indeed, which makes TNG's Holodeck, a parody of RED DWARFS Hologram System !!
Riker?
@@ajivins1 not sure if it was only 8 years, but, the emh?
Red Dwarf debuted i think in 88 so it predates DS9 and Voyager.
@@felderup The EMH was three dimensional...
"What did we just get ourselves into?" Err, well it's the *second* longest-running British sci-fi show! 😅
And in one aspect, the second longest running British sitcom, one of only two to have episodes air in five different decades.
I thought it was adorable when they said "I think it's only 3 seasons".
If I remember correctly there were 5 seasons.
Some people keep talking about more seasons, but they tend to be the same people who insist there is more than one Matrix movie, so I don’t think they should be believed!
@@tonyjackson4078 I was like "Oh no, oh dear" when they said that.
@@odorikakeruI think your memory banks must be faulty, sir, there are of course 6 seasons of Red Dwarf. ;)
OMG!..... I didn't think I'd _EVER_ see anyone reacting to "Red Dwarf." One of the very best British SciFi comedies of all time. I truly hope you will watch the whole thing.
There are 2 others I know of on patreon, but they're not in the gals league.
Someone should probably tell them that there aren't just three seasons as they seem to believe.
I hope they continue.
“It’s cold outside…”
@@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg They realize this towards the end of the video. Paula lists all of it.
Not "Get Dwarfed". It should be "Get Smegged". Trust me on this.
yes this 👆
This! Trust us on this one.
This.
Absolutely! Get Smegged is both more grammatically and culturally appropriate 😄👍
this this this this this
Red Dwarf is a National treasure . Patrick Stewart introduced a tribute evening when it's BBC run ended . So glad you gals are giving it a try . The first series is more of a scene setter and it changes a bit with each series it's a delicious mix of sci-fi and comedy .
Title has to be Gallifrey gals get smegged
Yes. This. @@DavidSmith-cx8dg
It wasn’t when it ended it was for the anniversary show, series 8 was after that
It was a terrific evening , loved Universe Callenge and Can't smeg won't smeg .
When Patrick Stewart saw his 1st episode, after 5 min's want to call his lawyer and sue the show. But he watched a bit more and realised it was a comedy show and was a complete parody of all SiFi shows.
One of the greatest British shows of all time? Here we goooo
There actually is, as of now, 12 seasons of Red Dwarf, though there were breaks in there, but it became such a cult classic that they brought it back. It is one of the craziest, greatest, parody shows of all time. One of those things that you either love, or you go "what the hell is that?" There are some real gem of episodes as well. And I am VERY HERE for you guys watching more Red Dwarf! :)
There was that anniversary night they did when they had the crew doing different shows, university challenge, and that cooking show as well.
Oh also the freaking brilliant movie which as of now is the most recent story of the Red Dwarf series.👌🏼
The out takes are also fun.
technically 11 seasons.. there was no season 9 - back to earth was a movie between season 8 and 10
@@tigrecito48 I thought there was a 1 episode season 13?
EDIT
Ah more of a movie, so 2 movies, 11 seasons and a mini-series.
OMG!!!!! Such a welcome surprise to see this 💙 Hope you love it as much as I do :))
This is one of those shows that gets better with each episode. Both the audience and the actors are learning who the characters are.
They're dead Dave, everybody's dead, they're all dead Dave...
Who's dead...😂
I know I shouldn't laugh but I hear Norman's voice......
THERE IS NO WAY YOU GUYS ARE REACTING TO THIS OMG THIS IS LIFE
Better Than Life, LOL!!!
@@scottboswell6406 I see what you did there! 😄
I hate that i didnt think of this@@scottboswell6406
"What did we just get ourselves into?" OH YOU DONT EVEN KNOW, its gonna get so good, and then bad, and then good again, and then all over the place. Its wonderful :D
Even bad Red Dwarf is better than no Red Dwarf.
Not bad for a show fronted by a poet, a standup comic, an impressionist & a dancer.
Chris Barrie was also an impressionist on the popular satirical show Spitting Image, he voiced the puppet Ronald Reagan and John Coleman, who was a football commentator on BBC TV. He voiced other puppets too and I believe one of the writers of Red Dwarf wrote for Spitting Image originally, although I may be wrong.
Red Dwarf is twelve series and a feature-length special
Oh, HELL YEAH! Now this will be worth your time! I would advise, be patient with it. The first couple seasons are okay, but they're very dialogue-heavy. Season 3 is where things really kick into the best the show has to offer.
Funny story, Patrick Stewart was back in the UK on a break from filming Star Trek, and he stumbled upon this show as it was airing. He immediately thought it was a TNG knockoff, and was about to call his lawyer, but then he started to laugh at the jokes. Before he knew it, he was fully invested in the show and saw it for the original idea it really was.
Actually I thought the second series was brilliant too!
Thats not the only Star Trek link. Terry Farrell aka Jadzia Dax was cast as Cat in a 2nd US pilot for NBC/Universal. A full year before being cast on ds9.
Wonderful! Wanted to reply to this and upvote instead of saying basically the same thing in another comment. Season 2 is better than 1, but (for me) seasons 3-6 is some of the best, smartest and most inventive writing around. Takes a bit of a dip in those later years, but hey - right now, you've all the best bits to come........
@@TheBreadthatcausedLesMis and while it's not directly relevant, the role of the Cat in the other pilot was played by Hinton Battle (who fans of Buffy will remember as the dancing demon "Sweet" in the musical episode).
Always amazed when people say it only reach its peak with S3... I thought S2 was the peak.
That theme tune will be in your bones very quickly.
Watching RD is like eating potato chips. You can't stop at just one.
...Curry flavor crips.
@@paulleach3612 With a beer milkshake.
We call the "crisps" here in the UK, in fact I think Lister (or maybe Cat) mentions crisps at some point in the future series.
It really gets hilarious at season 3. They give them a budget boost and the stories get bigger and better
Reacting to Red Dwarf!!!!! (Runs round the room yelling like a 5-year old) 😁😁😁😁 Gallifrey Girls get Smegged!
Title winner!
@@ianpark1805It seemed an obvious suggestion. Thank you!
"Gaillifrey Gals Get The Bulb"
A title that will take several seasons to make sense, the best KIND of title!
I got it! Genius!
Look out, Earth. The slime's coming home!
Dwarfers & Smegheads of the universe...UNITE!!!
More Dwarf!!!! More Dwarf!! More Dwarf!!
This show is pretty universally beloved by british nerds. Its p good
ALso, you're right about the theme song being one of the best
I had the same reaction as you gals when I first saw Red Dwarf. My wife and I were watching PBS, and it was the next show to air. We had never heard of it before and had absolutely no idea what we were in for, but settled down to watch this strange little sci-fi comedy. We were hooked the instant we met the Cat, still our favorite character. In fact, whenever I have seafood for dinner, I am liable to start singing, "I'm gonna eat you, little fishy." Don't worry. You'll understand the reference soon enough as you watch the series.
Too slow chicken marengo!
FISH!
Today’s fish is trout almandine. Enjoy your meal.
FISH!
Today’s fish is trout almandine. Enjoy your meal.
FISH! . . .
Isn't it trout a la creme? Everytime I hear someone say fish I reply with that, but it's been years since I've watched it
Yep, a la creme.
The only thing aside from Nova that was worth watching on PBS.
Lovely to see new folk - especially non-Brits - discovering Red Dwarf! So glad you liked it. It's a mad old show but frequently wonderful!
Gals get Smegged?
You could go up, up, up the ziggurat, lickety split!
Core memory unlocked "Me sick as a dog. See this for the first time on PBS, as a marathon, and this show being the only light that got me through"
I grew up on the Third through Fifth Doctor, Red Dwarf, and the six episode Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC miniseries they did in 1980.
I have had unreasonably high standards for television ever since.
I would say you probably have reasonably high standards, these shows did it without the budget, so it's fully possible to produce good entertainment without a crux of a massive budget, and it's disappointing when shows fail to live up their potential and then blame it on the budget. (of course most of the shows you mentioned got lucky, because they didn't have a high budget, that the studio/production interference was minimal and they were allowed to be themselves--and yes I know that Doctor Who did have a lot of studio interference at different times, but they manage to muddle through them.)
@@cardsfanboy My local PBS station did a big thing for the start of the 5th doctor, and then when they ran out of episodes of that they started playing the third doctor from the beginning (and eventually into 4th) until more 5th episodes were available. By the time of Candyman and Yellow Kangs and "Why is 7 dangling off that balcony by his umbrella for no obvious reason" I had a lot of Dr. Who context. (And was introduced to the first two via The Three Doctors and The Five Doctors.)
I'm aware there's a filtering effect where stuff like Monty Python and Yes Minister and Cadfael made it across the pond, and most episodes of EastEnders didn't.
The BBC did six episodes of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about the same time NBC did six episodes of Police Squad, and it's apples and oranges trying to figure out which is funnier. But over here Police Squad got buried by network interference (The people who made airplane did a TV show starring Leslie Nielsen!) while Hitchhiker's Guide was presented on PBS as an exotic delight. And Hitchhiker's was always _intended_ to be six episodes, while Police Squad got the Firefly treatment by its network.
@@myphone4590 my pbs started with the 4th doctor, but more or less the same thing, we got the fourth doctor, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python and eventually the Hitchikers guide. (our non-affiliated local tv station got Benny Hill and Prisoner Cell Block H)
My point is that you got to watch good quality shows without a budget, and you were saying you might have unrealistic expectations, and I was agreeing with you in a way, but arguing that your expectations aren't really unrealistic in that these shows we are talking about are good despite their budget.
So a reasonable expectation is that a show can be good without a budget. And often times when a showrunner takes a quality source material and fails to make something good, they blame it on the lack of budget, when it's perfectly obvious that a budget doesn't determine quality as we've seen good shows without it, succeed.
Police Squad was great , better than the films really with the running gags .Loved the shoe shine snitch . Hitchhiker was good with the clever animations and most of theoriginal radio cast . The radio series is audio delight , stimulating the imagination and the cast are terrific - and easy on tired eyes .
The talking toaster is probably my favourite part time character.
A bit like marmite , some absolutely love him others it's pure hatred - want any toast ?
Omg this is amazing news!! I'm here for the Doctor who and now RD reactions!
Girls from the Dwarf!!
FYI, there are 61 episodes of Red Dwarf
Welcome to the Red Dwarf universe! I remember first watching reruns in late 1997 and really feeling like I was exploring something new.
I will say, the show *really* hits its stride once they add one more character, who I will not name.
Indeed.
Just realized the captain of the ship is also the colony head from Aliens (director's cut).
What did you just get yourselves into? Awesomeness!
You got yourselves into a show that refuses to die.
They have absolutely NO IDEA what they've just gotten themselves into - and I'm HERE for it!
Background: I discovered Red Dwarf in a very similar way and quickly fell for it.
I love, love, love that you are reacting to Red Dwarf and I am soooooooooooo excited for your future reactions.
I'm glad you want to watch the rest of this. I have a soft spot for the first two seasons, but it definitely kicks up a gear from season 3 onwards - you can notice the higher budget particularly.
Haven't checked out this channel in QUITE a while, but this is NOT the show I thought I'd see here. Loved this show growing up!
Okay, despite the very dated nature of this show, the gurls are on board. As a Dwarfer I'm thrilled.
There's a joke on The Good Place about a British television show that ran for 16 years on the BBC and had almost 30 episodes. I'm sure that could be a reference to several British sitcoms, but it always makes me think of Red Dwarf.
Have you considered trying a show called _Blake's 7?_ It was British SF from 70s and 80s, created by Terry Nation, who was a prominent Dr Who writer (creator of the Daleks). In style it is a bit like 70s Dr Who, but a bit more mature. Very good.
Blake's 7 is well worth a look , there are some great episodes and the acting is first class
Blake's 7 is the gritty British gritty type of SF show they thought they might be getting before actually seeing Red Dwarf. Best final episode ever.
Oh my goodness! I can’t believe you are reacting to Red Dwarf! One of my Al time favorite shows!
Gallifrey Gals get Smegged!
This is the title!
Yeah, that is perfect
Has to be Galifrey Gals Get Smegged! I scrolled down to check if anyone had already said it.
YESSS! I freaking grew UP with the boys from the Dwarf! I've been wanting someone to react to this for years! And I'd LOVE to see you react to how the show evolves over the years! THANK YOU!!!
The actor who played Captain Hollister was Mac McDonald. He was also in Aliens
In the UK we don't use laughter tracks, we screen the show to a live to a studio audience. Laff tracks is a US thing....
We did start to use them later, and honestly the balancing of the laughing in a lot of our shows including RD is a little high, but that's to a modern audience who is used to shows without them now.
The point is Red Dwarf didn't use a laughter track FACT...!
Grew up with Red Dwarf and it holds a very special place in my heart.
Probably the best SF-Comedy series ever...and up near the top of best SF series, period.
Nope, it's a live audience.
It's been so long I forgot this series even existed. I had a friend back then that loved this show.
There are actually 12/13 seasons of Red Dwarf, including a couple of movies. After season 1 the acting and story really gets nailed down, the remastered versions of seasons 1-3 are honestly better quality than the originals, with some fixed/added audio effects.
There was an attempt to make an American version of this show, but all i know about it was that it was apparently so bad, that it was cancelled after the pilot episode, or soon after. They didn’t use the original cast, and they had Terri Farrell (Jadzia Dax from DS9) playing the Cat.
It's like Futurama: it keeps coming back!
You're going to watch all of this - BRILLIANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:50 It's 8 seasons plus 5 revival "seasons" spread over the last 20 years (for a total of 13), seasons range for 1 to 8 episodes
Congratulations you are now Dwarfers!...& it only gets better & better. Looking forward to seeing much more RD. Arnold Rimmer, what a guy!
I'm up for watching you guys do nothing but Red Dwarf for the next year. Got a ways to go to get to my fave episodes.
Holy Crap... this is an absolutely fantastic show.
British TV shows typically don't have many episodes per season, only 6 is actually very normal. We opt for quality over quantity.
We don’t call them seasons but series, a season is called than because it typically lasts for a season as in 13 weeks
Sometimes though, such as with TNG and The Orville, you get quality and quantity.
@@abigailslade3824 Yeah, I just always prefer to say 'season' since it's easier to say 'seasons' than 'serieses'. I'm from the UK myself but I just always say 'season'.
@@twofacetoo75 well series is like sheep both singular and plural so you don’t need to mutilate the language, if it’s an American show I say season if it’s British I use series.
Season 3 is when it REALLY gets going.
Welcome to the Dwarf, ya Smeg heads.
This has been one of my favorite series for forty years. As an American I have been watching British comedies since the 70's here is a short list of my favorites.
Red Dwarf
Yes, Minister
Good Life
To the Manor Born
The Thin Blue Line
Plus another dozen
Red Dwarf is a wild ride with a lot of crazy characters.
I love Red Dwarf and I am absolutely down for this. 😃. The first season episodes are done on a relatively small scale and low budget but the stories become more ambitious (and funnier) in season two and they really hit their stride with season three. You're going to have a lot of fun reacting to this.
1988 to 2017, 29(+?) years, makes Red Dwarf the longest running sci-fi show that hasn't significantly changed its main cast!
Red Dwarf is one of my favourite shows of all time, been watching since I was a young child. I was lucky enough to go to two of the audience recordings for the modern era of the show (One of which was the first part of the 2020 TV Movie), always glad to see new people discovering the show.
Red Dwarf is a sitcom, but will take you by surprise with fun scifi ideas and character development
Yes, they did the Doctor Who thing, where they came back later. So basically there is 12 seasons. Enjoy the ride!
Side note from Wiki:
Peter Carlo Bessone Raymond OBE (born Raimondo Pietro Carlo Bessone; 11 May 1911 - 17 April 1992), known as Raymond Bessone and also as Mr Teasy-Weasy, Teasie Weasie Raymond and various combinations of these, was a British hairdresser from the 1930s to the 1960s.[2]
13 seasons. So far. (Season 13 was the three-parter "Promised Land").
you got to love the 1980s British Tv - Red Dwarf is a British institution - up there with "Only fools and horses"
OMG! So glad you're reacting to Red Dwarf as it's what kept us sci fi Brits going when Doctor Who got cancelled in 1989. As you loved S1 E1 you'll definately love all that's yet to come.
You could call yourself GALS from the Dwarf or GALS in Red.
I like "gals from the Dwarf", although it doesn't fit their "get [X]ed" naming scheme. They didn't come here looking for trouble, they just came to do the Red Dwarf shuffle. She's smart! She's smart!
Glad you’ve chosen it and it’s still going - up to Season 13
DO IT! HAHA! My first ever custom ringtone on my phone was this theme tune, "goldfish'os nibling on my toes"
Oh boy, you guys are going to love this. Honestly though, you can just watch seasons 1-6 and be happy with that.
Examples of other Brit Sci-Fi (even though it's my duty as an Eireannach to slag them off as a nation) "UFO", "Space:1999" "Sapphire and Steel"
I am utterly floored you two took the deep dive into Red Dwarf. Of course I'm excited! Looking forward to more.
YES!!! MORE RED DWARF IN THIS WORLD
The laughter was indeed an audience, they filmed the entire thing in the BBC canteen and dragged a load of people out of a pub across the road to view it live. The show was made on a incredibly low budget but this somehow worked for it.
This show had a live audience for the first few seasons then had the laugh track. All of the laughs were genuine which is fun
It had a live audience for every series except the 7th, and the Back to Earth special.
@@JakobLumley1978 actually no there was an audience in the 7th from what I know there were two versions of season 7
@@solrachernandez3389 they filmed series 7 without an audience, then showed the episodes to an audience and recorded their reaction for the laugh track.
@@JakobLumley1978 Yes, I can confirm that there were live audiences for the later seasons since I was in the audience for some of the season 10 episodes. Tom Price, who played PC Andy Davidson in Torchwood, was the warm up act, getting the audience into the mood prior to the actual filming starting.
Series 1 - 6 were all in front of studio audience
Series 7 was shown to an audience after filming & their reaction was recorded & added in post production
Series 8 - back to live studio audience
Back To Earth - no laugh track at all
Series 10 - 12 - live audience
Promised Land - live audience but filmed over 2 nights, so the audience changed halfway through
Red Dwarf is epic. For your information, the first two seasons were filmed with a live studio audience, and then the higher budget and CG/model work of season 3 required them to record the episode and then later recorded the audience reacting to it. Not technically a true 'laugh track' but effectively is.
One of the best British comedies out there. Mac McDonald, Capt. Hollister, was also in the movie 'Aliens' as the station head talking about communications with Earth in the early part of the film.
Really takes off in the third season. At least you only have to watch 12 episodes to get there. Awesome show. Even the first two seasons.
Future episodes have links and events. From earlier ones incorporated in the story lines and it gets better and better
Awesome RED DWARF! Like Star trek, it finds its feet in season three.
When I met my now wife, I spent a weekend showing her Red Dwarf. At the time, she worked in childcare. She went to work on the Monday and kept saying SMEG all the time. Next weekend I showed her Billy Connolly... She was lucky to have a job after that.
and you were lucky to keep her!
Red Dwarf has been my favorite TV show since the early 90s when they played the early seasons on PBS on Saturday evenings! So excited to see some Doctor Who fans get into the Dwarf for the first time!!! We'll be watching!
Red Dwarf is the best. Used to tape it every Wednesday in the 80s when doing my paper route and then watching it after. Absolutely love this show. And season 1 is great especially "Me2".
My friend’s uncle wrote this show and I can confirm that it’s a live audience, not a laugh track.
Thank you for this information. I have never seen it with laugh included before.
Plus for a real treat, you have to seek out the bloopers compilations after you’ve watched each series - they’re just brilliant
I originally stumbled on Red Dwarf by accident. I was visiting my sister's, and she and my wife decided to go out shopping. I was flipping through channels, and just happened to run across the first episode near the beginning. It hooked me right away. After it ended, there was another episode.
I had tuned into the local PBS station, which was in its pledge week, during which they always ran a marathon of Red Dwarf. When my wife got back, I told her that she had to see this, and she was hooked too( I was fairly sure she would be, as we both loved the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books). We've both been fans since, and have all the series on DVD/blu-ray.
I'm subscribing for more Red Dwarf because no one ever reacts to this show and it is one of my favorite sci-fi comedies
YES! One of the funniest sitcoms of all time!
I used to watch this show way back in the early 90s. Love this show, and so 80s and British😂
I'm totally Smegged!!! I Love Red Dwarf! I first discovered it on my local PBS station in the 90's and watched it since. Thank you, Gals, and thanks to Ftrefly for suggesting this. Now to jump to Patreon to see the full episode,
The book puts a different slant on the photo with the cat. In that Lister gets drunk and wakes up on Red Dwarf being put into stasis for 18 months is a way to get back to earth without being stuck on the ship for a year and a half. He actually ensures she has all the innoculations necessary to avoid putting the crew at risk and only sends the photo because he has her on the ship for awhile without anyone noticing.
Oh, HELL Yeah! I don't know if you should call it "Gallifrey Gals get Smegged", but that would be most appropriate.
Hope you both enjoy this series, it's got some good humour.
Wow, now this is a surprise.
Sure down to see you watch this. It's classic British comedy, we love it so much they kept bringing it back.
This is like the Star Wars of British comedy TV. At the time it was groundbreaking. 🤣
Your channel came up for me for the first time because this is a Red Dwarf reaction. Hopefully that tells you that you need to do more immediately 😊
I'm subbed for this ride! Red Dwarf is incredible.. and still going! :D
I can't say I'm a regular viewer, but I've tuned in here and there for the odd Doctor Who reaction. You can rest assured I'll be tuning in regularly for this, because it's absolutely smegging brilliant!
Seasons 1-6 was filmed in front of an audience
Ooohh I'm back for your reactions🎉. I stuck around for Who, now I'll be around for Dwarf
Love red dwarf. One of the funniest shows ive ever seen. Hope you both enjoy it too.