I've seen a fair number of Red Dwarf episodes, probably 20 or so. I haven't seen anything past the first byte of series VII... To put it simply... A lot of the early episodes are too underfunded and underformed to be good TV... If you've read the books, you'll hate the TV series for the most part, and probably end up hating the books too... Red Dwarf no longer appeared funny to me after series V, the writing was just pathetic. Silly jokes that weren't funny and too much attempt at growing a solid story... So I've given up on it... if only I could get the money back I spent on the videos...