Red Dwarf seasons 1 and 2 opening

[BlueStarFlower]

This was my favourite opening, thought it was a surprisingly dark one for a comedy. I still get awestruck by the size of the ship, too.

[BadNews88]

ADDENDUM:

Blame GEORGE LUCAS fort HIS re-tooling the 1st three STAR WARS films of the 70's & 80's..HAN SHOT FIRST!!!!

Thanx fer this, m8..

[BadNews88]

When I first heard the opening of the Original Signature Tune...it made me think that it was gonna be a VERY serious gig like BLAKES  7 or DOCTOR WHO...especially in juxtaposition to the tune being somehat akin to THE GODFATHER opening, IMO.

I didn't see the promos for RD 1, I just happened to tuen in, & was VERY surprised (and pleased) with what I saw..

Have been a card-carrying, flag-waving fan ever since.

Wish the Naylor HADN'T opted for the 'remastering' gig..

[talkymeat]

Best theme music ever. The early seasons of RD were quite brilliant; perfect pieces of tragicomedy. A Beckettian drama of stalemate, set against the shocking emptiness of the cosmos, with a bunch of good jokes thrown in. Then someone thought "my, this comedy science fiction show has turned out to be quite unexpectedly successful. Let's give them a proper budget," and it all went downhill from there.

[blendergirl]

So EPIC and menacing, the best opening to any TV program ever - I could be biased, I am obsessed with RD. I named my dog "Kryten" and everything.

[KeyToTime]

Who else wants to garrotte the one person who dislikes this?

[Njenkin]

This opening music was epic. Ah, the vastness of space...

There's nothing out there, you know. There's nobody out there. No alien monsters, no Zargon warships, no beautiful blondes with beehive hairdos who say, 'Show me some more of this Earth thing called kissing. There's just Rimmer, Lister, the Cat, and a lot of floating smegging rocks. That's it. Finito.'"

[flissyg123]

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!

[c0nzo12]

i am a fish

[DrLanceAngry]

quite a sizable chunk of the budget of the first season went on building the model and doing the 12 fly by shots, apparently

[pikmindoctor]

This is an amazing opening - reminds me of Space Odyssey

[Jownak]

Amazing how this model from the eighties can still completely and totally outdo the up to date computer generated version which I think looks dull and uninspired.

[Kizor]

I think that is because this is a ridiculously accomplished model, while very few things are - or STAY - ridiculously accomplished CGI.

If everything is possible, nothing is interesting.

[PerfectH]

@Jownak That's CGI? I always thought it was a physical model that they panned a camera around.

???

[Redheadfury]

@PerfectH it is a physical model lol, there's another intro that's CGI though

[BlackpeopleLOL]

i like this opening more than the "upbeat" one.

[john683011]

Me too. First series is on Netflix and it uses a later version. Smeg!

[DementiaSe7en]

I used to watch Red Dwarf all the time when I was a kid.

THE MEMORIES!

[LordZast]

I love this opening. It just seems so....I dunno, sober or something. Not really what you'd expect from a comedy.

[avanguardiatemibile]

@LordZast Indeed, and they should have kept it for latter seasons.

[JSMALLtv]

i think that theme was telling us another disaster was about to happen! XD

[lmath13]

i love this opening

[HamatoKameko]

I'll always be entertained by the lightbulb rocket nacelle on the back of the ship. XD <3

[ZemplinTemplar]

Me too ! :-D But hey, it's a sitcom, that also parodies all kinds of sci-fi clichés. This intro kind of reminds me of the one for Star Trek : The Next Generation, but in a (deliberately) less spectacular fashion, of course... ;-)

[19jayfuz91]

ha yeah i love the lightbulb rocket 2..i thort if i said that tho id get thumbs down :(

[liamdodd9393]

Is that Lister painting at the start?

[nightghoul]

yeah i think so anyway kinda looks like his face as it pulls back

[TheStigIII]

It was Craig Charles in the suit and Lister gets 8 weeks ship painting in Stasis Leak, so it could have been.

[MKB2814]

I thought it was two weeks.

Rimmer got 8 for insulting the Captain

[TheStigIII]

Oh yeah. Rimmer eventually got 8 years for insulting the chicken suit though.

[LordZast]

And kicking him in the nadjers, and all that.

[mikedd1234]

yeah it is, craig charles says in the dvd commentaries it was him in the suit

[gillesbeg]

What an excellent opening sequence, with the guy painting and everything. I sometimes wish they'd done a series before series one, with the whole crew on board...

[mikeeyChance]

they tried that with the last series they did and it sucked

[Yermamcha]

Awesome, thanks for uploading! I think this is RD's best opening.

[zimchar]

I like how the Red Dwarf Is big, slow, and Bulky, Not fast and sleek like with regular TV show space ships.

[mystykit]

I wish there was a clip with the original lyrics but can't find it here anywhere!

[denmanshaun00]

great theme!!! Just Great!! the best!!!!

[Romperjet]

Awesome. Thanks for uploading this theme. ^__^