Product Details

• Directors: Red Dwarf 1993
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English, Esperanto
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: BBC Video by CBS Fox
• VHS Release Date: August 15, 1995
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303541534
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #383,616 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sir are you absolutely sure- it does mean changing the bulb., September 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Red Dwarf VI - Byte One: Gunmen Of The Apocalypse [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Elizabeth is not wrong. If Red Dwarf is a religion then Series 6 is the Holy Smeg! Wisely moving the posse into Starbug means high peril at all times. Hold on to your wage packets...

"Gunmen of the Apocalypse" has oft been touted the best ep EVER; A cowboy bonanza with knock out SFX, cyber sex and "The Vindiloomian Empire"! And it is perfection, pulling out every stop imaginable.

This series begins and ends so perfectly, from the whacked-out "Psirens" to the sublime brilliance of "Out of Time". Another gem on this particualar video is "Legion"- a real showcase for the sharp writing genius of Grant Naylor. If you listen to the language, every other word buzz's and the one liners sparkle with wit and timing. There's also the ultimate Red Dwarf sequel ep "Emohawk" which heralds the return of Ace, the Polymorph and Duane Dibbly: The Duke of Dork! And Lister marries a gelf aswell.

The only critism reviewers have thrown at series 6 is that it has too many running gags. Personally I found each time I heard Kryten offering to commit suicide in more surreal ways on the crews behalf, my laugher got louder! What does one say. A sci-fi comic masterpiece if ever there was- you wont find anything more smegtastic anywhere in the entire cosmos!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Red Dwarf viewing, August 22, 2000

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Elizabeth (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Dwarf VI - Byte One: Gunmen Of The Apocalypse [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The beginning of the sixth series of Red Dwarf takes a dramatic change in format. The crew are marooned on Starbug after Lister "misplaced" their massive spaceship. This plot twist is brilliant as it provides the writers with enough new material to keep Red Dwarf as witty and fresh as ever.

Psirens pays tribute to ancient Greek mythology in proper Red Dwarf style. The crew are lured and pursed by a number of hilarious fantasy creatures who are desperate to snack on their brains. Kryten almost gets annoyed.

Legion pokes fun at Gestault psychology as the crew discovers a seemingly perfect being named Legion. However, there is much more to Legion than meets the eye. Especially notable as Rimmer acquires his hard light drive. This episode has Red Dwarf fanatics screaming Plot Inconsistency! as Lister has his appendix out for the second time in the run of the show. Ah well...it's still a brilliant episode.

Gunmen of the Apocalypse is fantastic. It's a Red Dwarf Western, complete with a race against time to save Kryten and in turn, save themselves. Rimmer utters some of his funniest lines ever. This is can't miss Red Dwarf.

If you are unfamiliar with Red Dwarf, I highly recommend checking out the series from the beginning (aptly titled "The End"). This is a wonderful British sci-fi comedy series.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Veriatable Smegfest, January 11, 2000

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wonderrat "wonderrat" (Mountain View, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RED DWARF, Series VI, Byte One ~ 1993 Programs (The Universe will Never be the same again / Psirens / Legion / Gunmen of the Apocalypse) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

All conniseurs of Red Dwarf agree that Series 6 has to be the best season ever. Red Dwarf isn't for everybody, but if you can appreciate the sublime (and not so sublime) humor, then this is the show for you. The classic episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" is the main feature here and it has to be the best episode ever (and the BBC agreed, because it was the episode shown for the 10th anniversary Red Dwarf special in England).

Of course, the other two episodes on the tape aren't bad at all. The dinner scene in "Legion" is absolutely hilarious and we can all relate to eating unfamiliar food with even more unusual utensils, but certainly never Mamosian anti-matter chopsticks! Of course, I would like to have seen the Jovian boogle hoops and the often fatal Mercurian boomerang spoon. And finally there's "Psirens," with the Kafkaesque cockroaches sucking out human brains (of course our heroes don't have anything to fear, because between the sorry lot of them there isn't enough brains to make a snack). Will the Cat find his true calling as a seed spreader? And is Pete Tranter's sister really who she says she is? And what is Lister's fascination with peaches, since he has an aversion to fruits and vegetables?

Got to cut this short, but then I could complete the rest of this sentence using my intestines, although where am I going to find a kidney to use as a full stop? Tantalized? Then get the tape!