Red Dwarf is a BBC sitcom about the last man alive on a mining ship 3 million years into deep space. He was placed into stasis for smuggling a cat on board in violation of quarentine regs so he'd get released when the ship returned to Earth from its mining tour of Saturn's moons. Instead, the ship suffered a fatal malfunction which irradiated the crew, killing them all. The ship's AI computer speeds the ship out of the solar system to avoid contamination and doesn't stop for 3m years until the radiation's decayed to safe levels. It then releases Lister (the guy) from stasis. he discovers that his cat was safe in the cargo holds and was pregnant, giving rise to a cat evolution and civilisation that rose and fell in the cargo holds. the last surviving cat - called 'Cat' - becomes one of his companions as they turn the ship around and head back to Earth. His other companion in the first two seasons is a holographic recreation of Arnold Rimmer, his officious nitwit bunkmate and shift boss, a man so sad and anally retentive he hangs his underwear on coat hangers and sews name-tags in his ship-issue condoms. In the 3rd season, they're joined by Kryten a service android from another vessel they found in a wrecked ship.
Hilarity ensues.
it ran for 8 seasons, 6 of which were good, 2 of which were mediocre. it was then brought back by a cable station for a 3-part special which by most accounts was rather pony.
