Better Than Life (Red Dwarf episode)
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| Red Dwarf episode | |
| "Better Than Life" | |
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| Episode № | 2 |
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| Airdate | September 13, 1988 |
| Writer(s) | Rob Grant & Doug Naylor |
| Director | Ed Bye |
| Guest star(s) | Tony Hawks as Better Than Life Instructor , Ron Pember as The Outland Revenue Taxman |
| Series II September 6 – October 11, 1988 |
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| List of all Red Dwarf episodes... | |
Better Than Life was the eighth Red Dwarf episode to air, the second of the second series.
[edit] Synopsis
A post pod that has been chasing Red Dwarf for three million years has finally caught up to deliver the letters, and Rimmer receives a letter from his mother informing him that his father is dead. To cheer him up, Lister and the Cat accompany Rimmer into the total-immersion computer game Better Than Life, where everyone's deepest desires come true. Sadly, Rimmer's fantasies are not always desirable even for him.
[edit] Trivia
- The Red Dwarf Radio Show was partly based on the plotline of this episode.
- This episode gave its name to the Red Dwarf Fan Club's quarterly magazine, Better Than Life.
- It also gave its name to the second Red Dwarf novel.
- The Game, a 1991 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation shares a similar plot to this episode.
- Marilyn Monroe makes her first of 3 appearances in Red Dwarf, in the Cat's CGI fantasy. She would return as a mechanoid in The Last Day and as a wax-droid in Meltdown.
