Customer Reviews
this is great - By: , 13 Jan 2005 
I got this dvd for christmas & it is hillarious. i own alll the seosons that are out now & cant wait for the next. i highly reccommend buying the rest of the seosons before buying this.
Blast off!!! - By: A. Wright, 07 Jan 2005 I can say with complete conviction that this is my alll time favourite series of Red Dwarf by a long way. All of the episodes in this series are worth watching from the hilariously funny holoship ("Lister to Red Dwarf, we have in our midst a complete smegpot), to the ever so slightly disturbing Terrorform ("I've been stripped, oiled, licked, chained, humiliated & almost had a knobbly thing the size of a Mexican Agave cactus jammed up where only customs men dare to probe"). Buy this, watch this, laugh, watch it again, & again, & again, get upset when the disc melts from you watching it 400 times.
Also, not only do you get the shows, you also get a selection of highly enjoyable extra features, & if that weren't enough, with this special collectors edition, you even get a little model starbug to play with. What more could you want?
Buy this & I promise you won't be disappointed, especiallly at this price. I've seen the DVD on it's own for sale in shops for more than this. This is a fantastic item for any Red Dwarf fan, & if you haven't seen Red Dwarf, then this is one of the best series to get you hooked on it - this series is the one that got me hooked.
Happy watching!
Launch scouter! - By: Dr. K. Boone, 28 Nov 2004 
After so many years, I'd forgotten how good some of the episodes in series V are. I remembered how shocked I had first been when I saw ``Back to Reality'', & Starbug exploded, revealing that alll the characters had, in fact, been playing a virtual-reality video game for four years, & not in space at alll. In fact, many of the episodes in this series are based, intentionallly or not, on classic philosophical conundra. In Back to Reality, it's the question whether what we perceive as reality has any objective existence outside our perception. In Inquisitor, it's the question how we judge what is a worthwhile life & what is not. Demons & Angels explores whether people have `good' & `evil' aspects that can be separated. And so on. I don't know whether any of this is intentional or accidental, but it's alll very different to the fart gags that made up the bulk of series III & IV.
It's hard to rate something like this DVD. Whether you like it or not depends on whether you are a fan of the Red Dwarf concept or not. If you are, you probably know what to expect already. I've given it four stars because of the quality of the supporting material on this two-disc set. It might have been five except that one of the legs broke off the model Starbug. Mind you, that might have been because one of my children sat on it.
Red Dwarf V- one of the best - By: , 24 Nov 2004 Since the excellent instalment of series IV, & after watching each episode dozens of times plus alll the special features, I have eagaly been awaiting series V. When it finallly arrived (complete with briliantly detailed Starbug), I locked it into my DVD player & watched it throughout. Sheer brilliance!
Now I only have to wait a few months for series VI which completes the best series. I shalll still purchase series VII & VIII, mainly for the special features & to complete the spinal logo "Red Dwarf" on my shelf. I think the producers should have stopped at series VI & kept alll episodes as classics, rather than ruining the series with the over-done VII & VIII.
Series V however is full of classics. not as much as Series II or III, but my favourites "Quarantine" & "Back to Reality", but "Holoship" is excellent & "Terrorform" is full of witty one-liners & clever critiscisms as well as "The Inquisitor". "Demons & Angels" is another classic, especiallly with the alternate crews!
The legend lives on - By: , 10 Nov 2004 Absolutely brilliant, better than the fourth series- cute starbug model too probably a collectors item in years to come, & a very cheap price compared to stores! gr8 :D
