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"Characters and Actors"
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The original cast, Danny John-Jules, Craig Charles, Chris Barrie and Norman Lovett, in a scene from Series II.Dave Lister is played by Craig Charles and is a genial Liverpudlian (and self-described bum). The lowest-ranking crew member on the ship (chicken soup machine technician) before the accident. He has a long-standing desire to return to Earth and start a farm on Fiji, but is left impossibly far away by the accident that renders him the last surviving member of the human race.
His bunk mate Arnold Rimmer (played by Chris Barrie) is a fussy, bureaucratic, neurotic coward, who is nevertheless judged by Holly to have the highest chance of keeping Lister sane when chosen to be the ship's one available hologram.
The Cat (played by Danny John-Jules) is a humanoid creature who evolved from the offspring of Lister's smuggled pet cat Frankenstein. The Cat is concerned with little other than sleeping, eating and fawning over his appearance, and tends not to socialise with other members of the crew. As time goes by, however, he becomes more influenced by his human companions, and so begins to resemble a stylish yet dimwitted human.
The ship's computer Holly, (played by Norman Lovett during series I, II, VII and VIII) and Hattie Hayridge in series III to V), has an IQ of 6,000, although this is severely depleted by the three million years he/she is left alone after the accident, having developed "computer senility". The change in appearance for series III was explained by Holly having changed his face to resemble that of a computer from a parallel universe with whom he'd fallen in love.
Kryten, full name Kryten 2X4B-523P, (played by Robert Llewellyn from series III onwards, and as a one-off appearance in series II by David Ross), was rescued by the crew from a crashed spaceship, upon which he had continued to serve the ship's crew despite them having been dead for thousands or even millions of years. After an accident involving Lister's spacebike, Kryten was rebuilt by Lister, with a slightly different appearance and voice. Kryten's main function is a sanitation mechanoid and has an overactive guilt chip. When first encountered by the crew, he is bound by his "behavioural protocols", but Lister gradually encourages him to break his programming and think for himself.
Kristine Kochanski, (originally portrayed by Clare Grogan before Chloë Annett took on the role in series VII & VIII), was initially a long gone girlfriend of Lister's who he had though of ever since. Just a memory that he cherished. However, a rift between two alternate dimensions revealed that Kochanski had survived the Red Dwarf cadmium II accident. Kochanksi would later join Lister and the Red Dwarf crew after the link to her own dimension collapsed.
The cast of series VIII. From left to right: Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn, Craig Charles, Chloe Annett and Danny John-Jules. Norman Lovett, not visible, remained part of the cast.In addition to the main characters, other characters have come and gone, and even come back again. Captain Frank Hollister, (played by Mac McDonald), died in the original cadmium II accident and was revived later on when the nanobots re-built the Red Dwarf ship. Olaf Petersen, (played by Mark Williams), was one of Lister's drinking buddies on the ship. He died along with the rest of the crew, but was mentioned regularly when Lister talked about the days before the accident. Typically Lister refers to Petersen by his surname only. Lister's other drinking buddies were Selby and Chen, (played by David Gillespie and Paul Bradley, respectively). When Lister and Rimmer were imprisoned, and then enrolled in an SAS style group called the Canaries, they had company with the likes of Kill Crazy, (played by Jake Wood), and Baxter, (played by Ricky Grover), both were on hand to help out with any problems. Warden Ackerman, (played by Graham McTavish), would also turn up to torment the imprisoned pair. The Skutters are small maintenance robots that appear when needed, but have limited skills and cause more damage than good.
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