Primordial Soup: The Least Worst Scripts

by Grant Naylor, Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

Six scripts from the cult BBC TV series. The publication of this book coincides with the arrival of the seventh "Red Dwarf" series in the spring of 1993. The author also wrote "Better Than Life", "Red Dwarf" and "Red Dwarf Omnibus".

Genres: Science Fiction, Humor, Comedy, Tv, Fiction, 20th Century

158 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 1993

About the author

Grant Naylor was the collective name used by writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor for their collaboration, particularly the TV series, Red Dwarf. Grant and Naylor call their pseudonym a gestalt entity, something that is greater than the sum of its parts.


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Reviews

[Michiel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Voor de nerd! De meest beroerde scripts uit Red Dwarf. Erg leuk!

[Gary E · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really short book! Finished it in about 2 hours.

It’s just a collection of scripts for 6 episodes of the tv show.

Great fun to read them instead of watch them.

My wife kicked me out of bed because despite my best efforts I kept waking her up laughing. LOL

If you are a fan of the show these are fun to read.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Red Dwarf scripts, what's not to like?

You haven't seen Red Dwarf?

Imagine Monty Python meets Farscape. That's Red Dwarf.

Funny, touchy, great.

[Dane Cobain · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a collection of the scripts to some of the fan favourite Red Dwarf episodes, so if you’ve ever seen the cult favourite sci-fi comedy show then you should know roughly what you’re letting yourself in for. And if you haven’t then I’m not really sure what you’re doing with this book.

Included here are the scripts to Polymorph, Marooned, Dimension Jump, Justice, Back to Reality and Psirens, and you also get a bunch of photographs of the cast and crew – although most of them are just stills from the show. What I found most interesting of all was the fact that I was able to spot a few differences between the script and the finished show because I’d grown up with it.

Overall then, this isn’t for everyone, but if you like Red Dwarf then you’ll love this. That’s all I have to say.

[Sterling Wesson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Preferred watching the episodes to reading them, would have been interesting to pick episodes that varied in the script when compared to their completed TV episodes, but still a fun and quick read nonetheless.

[Shahna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes please. I love Red Dwarf.
I'm going to re-watch the series now.

[indy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reading this book is almost as good as watching the episodes on television.

[LJ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book contains six scripts from seasons three-six of Red Dwarf, which at the time the writers Rob Grant and Doug Naylor considered their best. I think it is sad that they didn't love their earlier material, which was often more character-based. From their selection, clearly they enjoyed episodes in which there were alternate versions of the characters.

It has been years since I last rewatched Red Dwarf so I have no idea which episodes I particularly like. Reading through these ones, I'd say that the only out right BAD episode is Dimension Jump, which is just an excuse for Rimmer to make homophobic jokes at his own expense. It's just awful. The rest of the episodes are pretty good albeit rushed and usually with no satisfying conclusion to fit a big idea into a 30 minute sitcom. Just look at Back To Reality. That should have been a movie. I think the best script here is probably Justice.

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fun easy book I flashed through. Filled with some great episodes. That fact is was scripts not the usual turned into a novel made it interesting to read. A little difficult but I manged. My hat goes off to Ace Rimmer. Wow what a guy.

[Edward Davies · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fans of Red Dwarf will relish the chance to read some of the bteer scripts from the long running comedy sci-fi series.