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Red Dwarf
1988–2017
· TV Show
· 30 min episodes
· 12 seasons
A
MEANRANK
81/100
Every rating
70–85
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 70, highest is Metacritic users on 85.
See the TV shows the platforms disagree about most →The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
Details
- Created by
- Doug Naylor, Rob Grant
- Released
- 15 February 1988
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English, Esperanto
- Episode length
- 30 min
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Episodes
- 73 across 12 seasons
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