Starring:

• Chris Barrie - Arnold Judas Rimmer
  Craig Charles - Dave Lister
  Danny John-Jules - Cat
  Norman Lovett - Holly (season 1-2, 8, 12)
  Hattie Hayridge - Holly (season 3-5)
  Robert Llewellyn - Kryten (season 3-)
  Chloe Annett - Kristine Kochanski (season 7-9)

  • and more :-)

Format: Box set
Language: English
Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats below.)
Number of discs: 18
Classification: 15
Studio: 2entertain
DVD Release Date: 14 Jan. 2019

DAVE LISTER - Craig Charles
Third Technician David Lister (Sr. & Jr.) was the lowest ranking crew member of the Jupiter Mining Corporation spaceship Red Dwarf.

Due to a time travel paradox, Dave Lister was born on Starbug, the son of navigation officer Kristine Kochanski and himself. After realizing his true heritage, the adult Lister travelled back in time to leave his baby self under a pool table in the Aigburth Arms pub in Liverpool in the year 2155, thereby completing a predestination paradox to ensure that the human race does not die out. His official birthday was 14 October, yet he celebrated his birthday "most of the time."

Lister is normally dressed in a leather jacket and hat, his boiler suits and his lengthy dreadlocks that he grows only from the back of his head. Until series VII, he was presumed to be the last human being alive, due to a radiation leak on the mining ship Red Dwarf which killed the crew while he was in stasis. Holly, the ship's computer, piloted the ship away from Earth and kept Lister in stasis for 3 million years, at which point the radiation levels had again returned to normal and Lister was released. As a crew member of Red Dwarf, Lister and the other characters encountered many strange beings and life-forms, usually of human origin.

ARNOLD J. RIMMER - Chris Barrie
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSc., SSc. was a second technician on mining ship Red Dwarf and was brought back as a hologram by Holly to keep Dave Lister sane.

Arnold Judas Rimmer was born on Io, where he suffered an unhappy childhood growing up in the shadow of his three older and more successful brothers, John, Frank, and Howard, and unlike them, Arnold was not sent to the Space Academy to become a professional officer. His father had been rejected from the Space Corps in his youth for being an inch below regulation height, and was thus fixated on all his sons succeeding where he had failed; to this end, he refused to allow them to eat unless they could answer complicated astronavigation questions. He also stretched them on a rack to make them taller, causing Arnold to reach a great height at an early age. His mother was a cold woman who had no time for fools.

Arnold was also bullied by other children at school — where he was known as "Bonehead" — and his best "friend", Porky Roebuck, once spearheaded a plan to eat him during a Space Scouts survival course.

Rimmer left home when he was 16, hoping he would get into the Space Academy, which due to his exam performance, he could not do. Rimmer has earned two swimming certificates: one Bronze Swimming Certificate, and one Silver Swimming Certificate (despite not being not able to swim); he includes the titles for these certificates — "BSc" and "SSc", respectively.

THE CAT - Danny John-Jules
He is a descendant of Frankenstein, Dave Lister's pregnant pet cat, and her kittens, and whose species evolved into a humanoid form over 3,000,000 years while Dave Lister was in suspended animation.

He is a pure cat - vain and aloof, and loves to dress in extravagant clothing.

He is simply referred to as "The Cat" in lieu of a real name.

Holly - Norman Lovett & Hattie Hayridge
Holly is the ship's computer.

The character is played by Norman Lovett in Series I and II. Following a "head sex change" to look like his parallel universe alter ego Hilly in "Backwards", Holly is played by Hattie Hayridge in Series III–V. Holly does not appear in Series VI, but reappears in the final episode of Series VII as the original male version, which continued into Series VIII.

Holly is the ship's Tenth Generation AI hologrammatic computer. After releasing Dave Lister from stasis in The End, Holly told him that the crew have been wiped out by a radiation leak and that he had spent three million years in stasis. Holly prides himself on the fact he had an IQ of 6,000, but after three million years by himself, he had become computer senile, or as Holly put it, "a bit peculiar".

KRYTEN - Robert Llewellyn
Kryten (full name Kryten 2X4B - 523P').

Kryten is a Series 4000 mechanoid or "slave 'noid" — a robotic servant — and is quite neurotic. He is very humanoid, with the exception of the flat cubic planes visible on his face and head, and stands at 6 feet tall. Kryten's design is mostly plastic, but there are some slight organic elements in his construction.

Kryten was built by the corporation DivaDroid International in 2340; one of a number of Series 4000 models based on a design by Professor Mamet. This design was actually intended as a joke on Mamet's ex-fiancé, John Warbuton, the mechanoids being a caricature of his fussiness and pomposity. All negative emotions such as jealousy, guilt, envy, frustration, and insecurity build up in a "mind negadrive", which when full would cause the head of the Series 4000 mechanoid to literally explode. This was supposedly a likeness to when Warburton would "blow".

KRISTINE KOCHANSKI - Clare Grogan + Chloe Annett
In the first two series it becomes apparent that Dave Lister lusted after Kochanski (as played by Clare Grogan) from a distance and occasionally flirted with her but never had a relationship with her, never having had the courage to ask her out. Indeed, he was told by Holly that he had shared a total of 173 words with her, fewer words than he had shared with his rubber plant.

In the seventh series, Kochanski was brought onto the show as a main character, coinciding with the departure of Arnold Rimmer in the latter half of the series. The show's creators recast the role with Chloë Annett. She is introduced in the seventh series' third episode, "Ouroboros", crossing over from a parallel universe and being stranded on Starbug.

After being trapped with the "Dwarfers" in their universe, the alternate Kochanski adds something of a new dynamic to the show. Much of the humour in her scenes comes from the difference between her frame of reference and that of the others. Her initial reaction to the meagre conditions of life aboard Starbug is one of utter despair, as well as disdain for the "Dwarfers" as inferior versions of the people she knew in her dimension. Over the course of the seventh series she becomes acclimatised to her new situation, and becomes integrated as a member of the crew.