When did Red Dwarf get stolen?

In Series VI the Red Dwarf ship has been stolen from the crew, forcing them to travel in the smaller Starbug craft for two series.

What year does Red Dwarf take place?

The storyline involves the characters arriving back on Earth, circa 2009, only to find that they are characters in a TV show called “Red Dwarf”. Kochanski is supposedly dead and Holly is offline due to water damage caused by Lister leaving a tap running.

Why is Red Dwarf called Red Dwarf?

It might be called Red Dwarf, but when it came to naming it some wag’s obviously gone for the sort of sarcasm which might have really seen a young Arnold Rimmer nicknamed ‘Ace’ without the ‘hole’ bit being added on. The Dwarf is in fact a whopping six miles long and three wide.

Did Red Dwarf get back to earth?

The Red Dwarf crew will come back to Earth when the show returns this Easter, 21 years since the science fiction series first blasted off. For eight series totalling 52 episodes Dave Lister wanted to return to his home planet. Now, at last, he has – in Red Dwarf: Back to Earth.

How did the crew lose Red Dwarf?

In the Series. Mission badge variant At the series start, the crew of Red Dwarf was lost after a Cadmium 2 radiation leak wiped out the crew except Dave Lister who was sealed in stasis at the time. The incident was apparently caused by Arnold Rimmer’s failure to repair the faulty drive plates.

What is the rock on the bottom of Red Dwarf?

Asteroids
A significantly large asteroid, or small moon/planetoid, was embedded in the underside of the city-sized JMC mining spaceship Red Dwarf, and was one of its most prominent external features.

Why do they say SMEG in Red Dwarf?

Smeg. Smeg is a vulgarism or expletive used throughout the series of Red Dwarf. Although no specific meaning is ever given, it and its derivatives are regularly used as a derogatory term. On 14 February 2015 at the MCM Midlands Comic Con, Robert Llewellyn explicitly attested that smeg is a shortened version of smegma.

How old are red dwarfs?

While stars like the Sun have a lifetime of about 10 billion years, even the oldest red dwarf stars have not yet exhausted their internal supplies of hydrogen. The heaviest red dwarfs have lifetimes of tens of billions of years; the smallest have lifetimes of trillions of years.

Is Red Dwarf real?

A red dwarf is a type of star. Red dwarfs are between 0.075 and 0.5 of a single solar mass. That means even at their biggest, they’re only half the size of our sun. Red dwarfs are also cooler than the sun.

Will there be a Red Dwarf 14?

Red Dwarf writer has ideas for “lots of different stories” and would “love to do more” feature-length specials. Doug Naylor confirms he has no plans to end the sci-fi sitcom any time soon.

Will there be Red Dwarf 13?

Red Dwarf Season 13 Isn’t Happening… While cast members like Robert Llewellyn and Danny John-Jules (Blade II) teased Red Dwarf season 13 was gearing up to start shooting in late 2019, this ultimately didn’t come to pass.

How is Lister his own dad?

When Lister meets an alternate universe incarnation of Kochanski, he is given the chance to create a child. When the child is born, he takes it back in time and space to the pool table when he was first discovered. This means that Lister is essentially his own father, and his girlfriend is his mother.