I've been rewatching the classic era of #RedDwarf lately. I loved it a lot from its first broadcast and throughout the VHS era, but hadn't gone back in a long time.
A lot of it holds up, but I'd forgotten how generally bleak and sour its whole vibe had gotten behind the jokes. From Series V, if you squint at the screen a little you can see Grant and Naylor hating the crap out of each other more and more with each episode.
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@Rob_T_Firefly: I loved Red Dwarf, but I didn't know there were different eras. That suggests there are episodes I haven't seen.
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@RichSPK Series 1-6 are generally thought of as the "classic" era. Creators Rob Grant and Doug Naylor worked on it together.
Then there was a production break for a few years, and Grant and Naylor dissolved their working partnership. Naylor went on to make Series 7 and 8 alone, with big format changes and leaning harder on the scifi at the expense of the humor.
Ten years after Series 8 ended a rebooted ninth season of three specials happened on a new commercial network, still without Rob Grant, and that was reasonably successful enough that it plodded on for a 10th, 11th, and 12th series where everyone on screen is trying their best while looking just a little Too Old For This Shit. This was followed a few years later by a TV movie special in 2020, and that's been it since.
Personally, I watched all the stuff from Series 7 onward once, but feel no need to revisit it as I have with the classic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Red_Dwarf_episodes
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