"Arnold Rimmer Arnold Judas Rimmer is a fictional character in the science fiction situation comedy ""Red Dwarf"", played by Chris Barrie. He is unpopular with his crewmates, and is often the target of insults and general ridicule. After he is killed by a radiation leak during a timeskip in the series' first episode ""The End"" (1988) Rimmer is present for most of the series as a computer-generated hologram, indicated by the ‘H’ symbol on his forehead. From series I-V, Rimmer is intangible as a hologram and unable to interact with his environment, referred to in-universe as 'soft-light'; come the series"
"Lib"" between 1983 and 1984, and starred in his own sketch show Pushing Up Daisies (retitled to Coming Next for the following season) from 1984 to 1985 alongside Hale & Pace and Carla Mendonça. Barrie has played the character Arnold J. Rimmer in all twelve series of ""Red Dwarf"". A central character, Barrie appears as Rimmer in almost every episode of the series, absent only for a period during series 7. For most of the series the character of Arnold Rimmer is a hologram, requiring Barrie to wear an ""H"" on his forehead during filming. The character is described as"
"name was used, and not his personality because that would imply he had one. Rimmer first appeared in ""Red Dwarf""s first episode ""The End"" (1988), where he is characterised as second technician on board the mining ship ""Red Dwarf"", ranking above Dave Lister (Craig Charles), the lowest ranked crew member on board the ship with whom he shares quarters, and below all four of the service robots. As a technician, Rimmer does maintenance work on chicken soup vending machines that not even the robots are assigned to. Rimmer is shown having difficulty revising for his ""engineer's exam"" which he hopes"
"episodes of ""Red Dwarf"" is shown by the 'H' on the centre of his forehead, leading to nicknames from the Cat, such as ""alphabet head"" and ""goalpost head"". Rimmer keeps his unmanageable hair relatively short, deciding that it makes him feel like more of a man. When Lister and the Cat respond to a drill too slowly, Rimmer argues for increased discipline and sensible haircuts, believing that ""every major battle in history has been won by the side with the shortest haircuts"" (resulting in the Cat insulting his hair-do by saying that he has hair like his, just not on"
"every waking moment. Lister said that Z Shift's most vital responsibility was making sure the vending machines didn't run out of fun size Crunchie bars. In ""Dimension Jump"" (1991), an alternate Arnold Rimmer, whose friends call him ""Ace"", is shown as a successful and heroic test pilot in the Space Corps and commander who crosses dimensions to meet another Rimmer—the hologrammatic Rimmer living on ""Red Dwarf"". Ace's interdimensional ship collides with the ""Starbug"" shuttle, causing it to crash land on an ocean planet. With Lister's help, Ace repairs ""Starbug""s starboard engine. After returning to ""Red Dwarf"", Ace decides he can't"
"considering keeping him back a year. Having received the headmaster's notice in the post, she emphasises what an impact the decision could have on Arnold's life. Years later, in a parallel dimension, another Arnold Rimmer exists. Commander 'Ace' Rimmer is a test pilot in the Space Corps: he is heroic, charming, good-looking, intelligent, popular, brave and modest. He eagerly accepts a mission to test-fly a dimension-jumping prototype spacecraft despite never being able to return. After saying farewell to his friends, Ace departs and initiates a dimension jump. Aboard ""Red Dwarf"", Lister, Kryten and the Cat attempt to sneak away in"
"the episode is considered as one of the best from the first series by fans. It was later re-mastered, along with the rest of the first three series, in 1998. On the mining vessel ""Red Dwarf"", Dave Lister (Craig Charles) and Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie) go about their daily routine of maintenance. Rimmer takes the maintenance duties very seriously while Lister would rather be slobbing around and drinking with his ship mates Petersen, Selby and Chen. But it is not always about slobbing and drinking, he has a plan which he tells his pregnant cat Frankenstein. When he gets back"
"who informs Lister that ""Red Dwarf"" will indeed be returning to Earth... after a four-and-a-half year round trip, much to Lister's dismay. Lister is assigned to Z-Shift as a technician, with duties that the service droids are considered too good for, and is introduced to his supervisor and roommate Arnold Rimmer, who Lister recognises as the Space Corps officer with the fake moustache. Unfortunately, Rimmer is also highly neurotic and pretentious, and he and Lister develop a mutual dislike. Five months later, having settled into the dull, monotonous routine of life aboard ""Red Dwarf"", Lister he finds himself falling in"
"books, magazines and other merchandise. The main characters are Dave Lister, initially the last known human alive, and Arnold Rimmer, a hologram of Lister's dead bunkmate. The other regular characters are Cat, a life form which evolved from the descendants of Lister's pregnant pet cat Frankenstein; Holly, ""Red Dwarf's"" computer (Series I-V, VIII and briefly in the final episodes of VII, XII); Kryten, a service mechanoid (Series II-present); and Kristine Kochanski, an alternative-reality version of Lister's love interest (Series VII-VIII). One of the series' highest accolades came in 1994, when an episode from the sixth series, ""Gunmen of the Apocalypse"","
"or captured by slavers, spreading out amidst deep space. The episode was not produced due to the high cost of creating a marketplace inside a whole tribal village of Brefewino, other assorted GELFs and their ""Felis sapiens"" slaves. A reconstructed version of the episode using newly created storyboards appears as a bonus feature on the Series VII DVD release. It was performed entirely by Chris Barrie, who is himself a professional voice artist and voices both his character, Arnold Rimmer, and the rest of the cast. A script of this episode was auctioned for charity at a Red Dwarf convention"
"The Beginning (Red Dwarf) ""The Beginning"" is the sixth episode of science fiction sitcom ""Red Dwarf"" series X, originally broadcast on the British television channel Dave on 8 November 2012. The crew are attacked by Simulants, and in desperation are forced to rely on Rimmer to save them. The episode opens during Rimmer's childhood. He is a student at a college on Io, and his father is the teacher. Rimmer's father uses the unwitting young Arnold as a guinea pig. He has prepped the students to make Arnold feel unsure of his decisions, and then he humiliates him when he"
"Rimmer, who later became Ace, and the resurrected Rimmer who faced Death in the Series VIII cliffhanger. However, attempts by Rimmer and Kryten to explain how he saved the ship at the end of that series are interrupted. In ""Officer Rimmer"" (2016), Rimmer is promoted to first lieutenant by a bio-printed copy of Captain Herring (Stephen Critchlow), when Rimmer saves Herring's ship the ""Nautilus"" by a fluke. He separates ""Red Dwarf"" by instigating a class system, and sets up an officers' club featuring copies of himself (played by Barrie). Rimmer accidentally creates a monstrous amalgamation of Rimmers (also played by"
"hologram, having the same drives, feelings and emotions as the living Rimmer, but being unable to touch anything. The only other survivor on board ""Red Dwarf"" is a creature called ""Cat"" (Danny John-Jules), a descendant of Lister's pregnant cat who was safely sealed in the hold along with her unborn kittens during the radioactive crisis. By the time of ""Future Echoes"" (1988), Rimmer claims to have taken the ""astronavigation exam"" without passing nine times, or ""[t]en, if you count the time [he] had [his] spasm."" He also claims in this episode that his father had said, ""Shiny clean boots and"
"Dimension Jump (Red Dwarf episode) ""Dimension Jump"" is the fifth episode of science fiction sit-com ""Red Dwarf"" Series IV and the twenty-third episode in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 14 March 1991, written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, and directed by Ed Bye. The episode, featuring the first appearance of Ace Rimmer, was intended to end the series; but ""Meltdown"" was rescheduled and broadcast last due to the Gulf War. The episode begins with a young Arnold Rimmer being told by his mother that the headmaster at his school was"
"once again as a hologram. According to his backstory, Rimmer's parents were ""Seventh-day Advent Hoppists"", and believed that every Sunday should be spent hopping, because their version of the Bible had a misprint in 1 Corinthians 13 and they had interpreted this passage literally. He mentions that the first time he was French kissed was from his Uncle Frank. He had come into the wrong room and thought Rimmer was his mum. According to Lister in ""Justice"" (1991), before the nuclear accident that killed the crew of ""Red Dwarf"", Rimmer was in charge of ""Z Shift"", and it occupied his"
"self-centred, neurotic, cowardly and hopeless with women. When a pilot for an American version of the show was produced, Barrie was invited to reprise his role as Rimmer. He passed up the offer because of the constraint of the five-series contract, which is standard for American television. Robert Llewellyn was the only cast member of the British show to participate in the pilot, which was not picked up. In May 2015, it was announced that he would be returning to Red Dwarf for the eleventh and twelfth series. Barrie is also well known for his role as Gordon Brittas, the"
"smugly satisfied that his brother died a low-ranking repairman after years of picking on his younger brother. But the computer system is updated with news of Howard's death, and due to his bravery, Howard is posthumously awarded the Platinum Star of Fortitude, with the recommendation that Red Dwarf be renamed ""S.S. Howard Rimmer"". Rimmer suffers another resentment-fueled crash. This original title for this episode was ""Slow Rescue"" but it was changed when it was realised that it was not a dynamic title for a new series. The episode was dedicated to the memory of Jo Howard (Production Manager for Series"
"Kochanski), including a pre-accident Rimmer; and the original male Holly. The series ends with a metal-eating virus loose on ""Red Dwarf"". The entire crew evacuates save the main cast (Lister, Rimmer, Cat, Kryten and Kochanski), whose fate is unresolved in a cliffhanger ending. Series IX onwards revert to the same four main characters of Series 3–6 (Lister, Rimmer, Cat and Kryten), on Red Dwarf and without Kochanski or Holly; and Rimmer is again a hologram. It has not been confirmed whether the Rimmer onboard ship is the one who originally left, the revived version, or a third incarnation entirely; however,"
"a front-gate security guard who considers himself corporate head. Kryten then went on to state that Rimmer's only crime is that of being Arnold J. Rimmer, which should also serve as a punishment. In keeping with his defective personality, Rimmer continually objects to his own defence (despite its effectiveness) on the grounds that he believes he is being portrayed unfairly. Rimmer was finally able to live his fantasy of commanding an army in the episode ""Meltdown"" (1991), leading an army of ""good"" wax-droids against a much larger force of ""evil"" wax-droids. Although Rimmer ultimately succeeds in destroying the opposing army,"
"first mentioned in ""The End"", resulted in the deaths of the entire crew (Lister and Rimmer not being counted in the charges), although this retcon was implicitly reversed by Lister giving his crew number as 000169 in ""The Inquisitor"" (1992). ""Timewave"" (2017) again states the number of people Rimmer killed after misrepairing the drive plate as ""over a thousand"". In ""Back in the Red"" (1999), Holly reveals that there are 400 people in a classified prison on the secret Floor 13. ""Red Dwarf"" itself is the main setting for every series save for VI and VII, which take place on"
"that ""Red Dwarf"" should be filmed instead. The show was lucky to be remounted after an electricians' strike partway through rehearsals in early 1987 shut the entire production down (the title sequence was filmed in January 1987). The filming was rescheduled for September, and the pilot episode finally made it onto television screens on 15 February 1988. Alan Rickman and Alfred Molina auditioned for roles in the series, with Molina being cast as Rimmer. However, after Molina had difficulties with the concept of the series, and of his role in particular, the role was recast and filled by Chris Barrie,"
"television series called """"Red Dwarf"""". ""Part One"" begins on ""Red Dwarf"", nine years after the events of Series VIII. Kochanski (Chloë Annett) is dead and Holly is out of commission because Lister (Craig Charles) left a bath running in the officers' quarters for nearly nine years and the Skutters still have not finished drying him out. Rimmer also appears to be the original hologram Rimmer from series I to VII, rather than the series VIII human Rimmer. The crew have noted water supplies are low, and discover the cause—a giant squid in their water tank—after they go to investigate. After"
"Chris Barrie Christopher Jonathan Brown, known professionally as Chris Barrie (born 28 March 1960), is a British actor, comedian and impressionist. He first achieved success as a vocal impressionist, notably in the ITV sketch show ""Spitting Image"". He is best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom ""Red Dwarf"", as Gordon Brittas in the BBC leisure centre sitcom ""The Brittas Empire"" and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in the ""Tomb Raider"" franchise films. Barrie was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, to a father who was serving in the British Army, and attended Methodist College"
"to have the ""Red Dwarf"" crew arrive back at Earth only for the ship to accidentally crash through the world's major landmarks. This was deemed too expensive to film, so an altogether different finale was written. Naylor would blame the expensive CGI dinosaur from ""Pete"" as the cause of the lack-of-budget for ""Earth"". One proposed ending was to feature Arnold Rimmer's dashing and heroic alter-ego Ace Rimmer returning to save the day (in reality, the ‘original’ Arnold Rimmer). However this ending was not filmed. This, too, was changed at the last moment and the character of Death itself was introduced."
"Junior Angler. He tells Cat (Danny John-Jules) and Rimmer (Chris Barrie) that he hates his life on ""Red Dwarf"". During the conversation, Rimmer reminisces about a former schoolmate, Fred ""Thickie"" Holden, who despite being one of the stupidest boys in the class went on to earn an immense fortune with an invention called the ""tension sheet"", which, as Rimmer states, is merely bubble wrap that has been painted red with the words ""tension sheet"" written on it. Meanwhile, while working in the ship's darkroom, Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) accidentally discovers that the developing fluid can make photographs come to life. The"
"life, Kristine Kochanski, a navigation officer of ""Red Dwarf"". As a character Lister is lazy, slobbish, and unmotivated, but he frequently shows moral courage. He deeply enjoys Indian food, especially chicken vindaloo, which is a recurring theme in the series. Lister first appeared in ""Red Dwarf""s first episode ""The End"" (1988), where he is characterised as third technician on board the mining ship ""Red Dwarf"", ranking below his immediate superior Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie), with whom he shares quarters, and all four of the service robots as the lowest ranked crew member on board the ship. As a technician, Lister"
"""Starbugs"" and ""Blue Midgets"". Another shuttle type only mentioned in the novels but never so much as mentioned on the television series is ""White Giant"". The first episode, ""The End"", mentions that ""Red Dwarf"" has botanical gardens, when third-class technician Dave Lister and second-class technician Arnold Rimmer are sent off to repair a ""faulty power circuit"" there. The crew size is repeatedly stated in Series I to have been 169, but in the episode ""Justice"" (1991), Rimmer is charged and convicted for the second degree murder of 1,167 people after negligence in failing to reseal a drive plate, which was"
"VIII, the character reappeared as a hologram in the miniseries """" (2009) onward. It remains unclear whether this incarnation of Rimmer seen in ""Back to Earth"" and later series is the original hologram from series I-VII or a hologram of the Rimmer introduced in series VIII that was resurrected through nanotechnology. The fictional world of ""Red Dwarf"" would also allow for the possibility of Rimmer's latest incarnation being an amalgamation of the memories of both. The creators of the series acknowledge that Rimmer's surname comes from a snobby prefect with whom they attended school. They joke that only the boy's"
"Rimmer thinks it's aliens, but he introduces himself as Queeg 500, the ""Red Dwarf"" back-up computer. According to Queeg he is to replace Holly for gross negligence leading to the endangerment of personnel, and assumes control of the ship, demoting Holly to night watchman. The crew are initially pleased at the intelligence and efficiency of the new computer. However, the next morning Queeg forces Rimmer out of bed early to do exercises. While Lister originally enjoys watching Rimmer getting worked to exhaustion, he gets a nasty shock when he and the Cat are put to work scrubbing the ship, as"
"sequence. However, his big break came with ""Letter to Brezhnev"" (1985), which he followed with a starring role in ""Prick Up Your Ears"" (1987), playing Joe Orton's lover (and eventual murderer) Kenneth Halliwell. He was originally cast as Arnold Rimmer in the TV sitcom ""Red Dwarf"", but was replaced by Chris Barrie. In the early 1990s, Molina was a ubiquitous presence on British television, with his highest profile role being the lead in the first two series of ""El C.I.D."" Subsequent film roles included ""Species"", ""Dudley Do-Right"", ""Chocolat"", ""Not Without My Daughter"" and ""Enchanted April"". With a midwestern American accent,"
"car). He is a contributor to ""Practical Classics"" magazine. He has been married twice, first to Monica De Meo (1987–1990) then to Aleks (1997–present; two sons) Chris Barrie Christopher Jonathan Brown, known professionally as Chris Barrie (born 28 March 1960), is a British actor, comedian and impressionist. He first achieved success as a vocal impressionist, notably in the ITV sketch show ""Spitting Image"". He is best known for his roles as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom ""Red Dwarf"", as Gordon Brittas in the BBC leisure centre sitcom ""The Brittas Empire"" and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in the ""Tomb"
"in possession of the sexual magnetism virus, empties the tube over Rimmer as revenge for his actions earlier. Rimmer then realises that he's becoming very popular with the male inmates. For series VIII, Doug Naylor returned to ""Red Dwarf""'s roots and he would write the majority of the series himself. Paul Alexander, whose episodes ""Stoke Me a Clipper"" and ""Epideme"" were well received, returned as script supervisor. The inspiration for the new series came about during Naylor's work on the remastering of series I to III. The classic bunk setup and the character of Captain Hollister in those early episodes"
"Rimmerworld ""Rimmerworld"" is the fifth episode of science fiction sit-com ""Red Dwarf"" Series VI and the 35th in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 4 November 1993, was written by Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and was directed by Andy de Emmony. Rimmer undergoes a medical and discovers he has a stress-related condition. Kryten prescribes several measures for him to prevent an electronic aneurysm. Meanwhile, the crew decides to replenish supplies by looting the simulant ship they shot down a few weeks prior. However, one of the Simulants has survived and confronts"