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The pilot was produced and written by Linwood Boomer - a former actor on Little House on the Prairie who would go on to Third Rock from the Sun and ultimately create hit show Malcolm in the Middle.
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By Series V, Red Dwarf had reached a significant level of air-time and popularity on "both sides of the pond", with the merchandise, comics, novels, games, and action figurines selling well. Both Universal Studios and the NBC channel were keen on making their own version of the franchise; the former also showed interest in the Red Dwarf movie, although this too would not come to fruition. Sets and prosthetics were made, the crew were cast, and it was decided that two pilot episodes would be m...
Neither version of the pilot has ever been broadcast, though both pilots have been heavily bootlegged. The Series V DVD release includes a documentary on the making of the pilots, "Dwarfing USA", which includes footage from the first version of the pilot, but not the second as BBC Video was unable to obtain licensing rights to it. The documentary i...
"Dwarfing USA" documentary on the Series VDVD1 day ago · 1988 - 2020. 74 episodes (13 series) Science fiction sitcom based in space. The crew aboard the damaged mining spaceship Red Dwarf are doomed to drift in space for the rest of eternity. Stars Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett and more. Due to return for Untitled three-part special.
The only known leaked quality of the final cut. there is another video online with an early cut of the US Pilot which contains some differences and slightly ...
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The 2nd Attempt at a US pilot in (1992) Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
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Special thanks to @waymu-vhs for helping me out with the upscaling of this!In 1992, NBC and Universal Television set out to produce an American version of t...
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