Chris Barrie, Craig Charles and Danny John-Jules returned with new cast members Hattie Hayridge and Robert Llewellyn for the third season of Red Dwarf. Long term Dwarf fans will tell you that the series changed somewhat at this point, becoming more sci-fi focused and less reliant on the relationship between Lister and Rimmer, and Season Three contains some cracking episodes.

Firstly, the visually stunning "Backwards", featuring some wonderful trick photography and the now legendary ‘Bar Room Tidy’ sequence. Rimmer and Kryten are stuck in an alternate reality where time flows backwards, forcing Cat and Lister to arrive and rescue them.

"Marooned" is more like a short play than anything else, and a welcome return to the style of earlier episodes. Lister and Rimmer find themselves stuck on an icebound planet awaiting rescue – that’s it as far as plot goes! The episode brilliantly plays on Rimmer and Lister in a confined space as they get more and more on each other nerves. Also – Craig Charles eats dog food, a sight not to be missed.

"Polymorph" features the quite, quite brilliant Shrinking Underpants Scene, voted the funniest scene in all eight series. A shapeshifting, emotion-draining alien finds its way on board Red Dwarf, and proceeds to wreak havoc.

"Bodyswap" and "Timeslides" are possibly the two weakest episodes of the series, which is to say they’re merely excellent, but the final episode "The Last Day" tells the story of Kryten’s replacement, his farewell party and the terrible truth about Silicon Heaven.

Also featured on the DVD are full cast commentaries for every episode, deleted scenes and Smeg Ups, a video diary from Hattie Hayridge recorded during the convention "Dimension Jump", the full and complete episode Backwards Forwards (clearing up some continuity problems whilst exposing others) and various other bits and bobs that all Red Dwarf fans will find more than interesting.

I have to say this boxed set is exhaustive, fascinating and most importantly it’s still very, very funny. Red Dwarf has stood the test of time and retained the qualities that made it a success – the acting, the dialogue and the plots.