Product Details

• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English, Esperanto
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: BBC Warner
• VHS Release Date: July 7, 2000
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004WG2Z
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #435,065 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars On British Humor, November 6, 2000

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Brenda L. Matera (Vancouver, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Dwarf VIII - Byte Two: Cassandra [VHS] (VHS Tape)

You know, before I got this particular installment of Red Dwarf, I had to go to the UK Amazon site to get a decent review! The only other review I saw on the US site, was written up by someone who had no idea what they were talking about. Otherwise, it is great! If you are a Dwarfer, then don't hesitate to buy this one!

5.0 out of 5 stars A must-by for fans of Red Dwarf., January 2, 2005

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Illumination "G.Smith" (Beds, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Dwarf VIII - Byte Two: Cassandra [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Three episodes of the comedy/sci-fi series. The first, 'Cassandra', was when series 8 really came of age, and proved the show was back to its glory days. Lister and company find the titular computer, who can predict the future. This leads to hilarious comedy, drama and even food for thought. In 'Krytie TV', Kryten, having been classified as a woman for not being endowed with, erm, certain male characteristics, is now joining in girls' skipping teams and painting his foot red with nail varnish. When they find out he uses the female showers, the male prisoners sabotage him and force him to film them. In 'Pete', the discovery of a virus which can eat potato skins leads to disaster, and a time-wand regresses a short-sighted inmate's pet sparrow into a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A must-buy if you're a fan.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not like it used to be, June 10, 2002

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hamilcar barca (nowheres in particular) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Dwarf VIII - Byte Two: Cassandra [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is probably the owrst installment of a great show. It still has some laughs in it, but it has gotten so goofy and away from the original idea of the show that it is hard for me to watch sometimes. The ting that really turned me off was when they joined the "Canaries." I could take all of their other changes, but this is just too goofy. It's like they ran out of ideas for the few characters they had and needed a bunch of new, sickening characters to make up for it. This tape has 1 good episode and 2 pretty bad ones.
"Cassandra" - The best episode of series 8. Lister signs the group up for the "canaries" which is a group of prisoners who go on suicide missions. They encounter a computer called Cassandra that can see the future. This episode has an interesting, mysterious atmosphere to it that I enjoy.
"Krytie TV" - Kryten gets assigned to the womens section of the prison because he doesn't have a package. He is corrupted by a group of horny male prisoners into filming the women while in the shower. He gets busted by Lister and Rimmer eventually and fixed. Not really very funny, and pretty disgusting at times (i.e. the fish on the lamp).
"Pete, Part I" - Rimmer and Lister sabotage some sort of bizarre prisoner/inmate basketball game and assigned to potato-peeling duty. Lister uses little creatures that chew off the skin of the potatoes, but also end up chewing off he and Rimmer (and the Captains!) hair and clothes.