He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street.

After finding fame in Red Dwarf, he regularly featured on national television, with celebrity appearances on many shows of the time, while he continued to host a wide variety of programmes.

As well as starring in Coronation Street and occasional Red Dwarf series, Charles continues to host his Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio, and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals nationally.

Charles acquired cult status in 1988, in his television acting debut, as the Liverpudlian slob Dave Lister, in BBC2's new science fiction comedy series Red Dwarf.

Charles has played this role in all eight series, until 1999, and in the 2009 three-part special, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, for channel Dave.

Charles reads the audiobook editions of the Red Dwarf novel Last Human, and his book The Log: A Dwarfer's Guide to Everything, and he regularly attends sci-fi, comedy and memorabilia conventions in connection with the Red Dwarf franchise.

Charles has filmed a 10th series of Red Dwarf, which is due to be broadcast on Dave in October 2012.

In November 2011, Charles took time off from Coronation Street to film a new series of Red Dwarf, returning to filming on ' Corrie ' in April 2012.

In 1997, he and Russell wrote Charles ' Red Dwarf character's book The Log, in which Lister decides to leave a log detailing mankind's greatest achievements.

Rhatigan appeared alongside Charles in the Red Dwarf series IV episode " Camille ".

* Me2, an episode of the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf, in which gazpacho also features significantly.

Chapman was also to have played a guest role as a television presenter in the Red Dwarf episode " Timeslides ", but died before filming was to have started.

She appeared in an episode of the cult sci-fi TV show Red Dwarf ( 1989 ).

* " Legion " ( Red Dwarf ), the second episode of Red Dwarf Series VI

* Felis sapiens ( also Felix sapiens ), a fictional, sentient, humanoid species from the Red Dwarf television series

The BBC also aired science fiction comedy series such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ) by Douglas Adams and Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99, 2009 ).

Sonic screwdrivers appear in the 1980s Fighting Fantasy book Sky Lord ( although it is never used for anything in the book ), the Iron Man novel Femme Fatales, and the Red Dwarf novel Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers.

Simon is voiced in this game by Chris Barrie, known for his roles in Red Dwarf and The Brittas Empire.

British BBC2 sci-fi series Red Dwarf featured a virtual reality game titled " Better Than Life ", in which the main characters had spent many years connected.

Since World War II, the Red Sox have had 18 batting champions ( through 1989 )... Five to 7 points are a lot, given that there may be only a 15-or 20-point spread between a good hitting team and a poor hitting team.

* 1989 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.

Claws of the Bear: The History of the Red Army from the Revolution to the Present ( 1989 )

During their time together, the five members of the Traveling Wilburys frequently collaborated on each others ' solo records ; Lynne and Petty worked on Orbison's final album Mystery Girl ( 1988 ), Harrison played on Dylan's Under the Red Sky ( 1990 ), and Petty and Harrison worked on Lynne's Armchair Theatre ( 1990 ); Lynne produced Petty's solo albums Full Moon Fever ( 1989 ) ( which involved all the Wilburys, save for Dylan ) and Highway Companion ( 2006 ), as well as the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ).

These included Elizabeth Gourlay's novel Isabel, Allan Stratton's play Rexy and Heather Robertson's trilogy Willie: A Romance ( 1983 ), Lily: A Rhapsody in Red ( 1986 ) and Igor: A Novel of Intrigue ( 1989 ).

* Panorama / Die Liebe / Decree / Groesste Kraft ( Cherry Red, 1989, London )

Red Hot Chili Peppers ' song " Magic Johnson " from their 1989 album Mother's Milk is a tribute to the former point guard, and frontman Anthony Kiedis and bassist Michael " Flea " Balzary are frequently seen attending home games.

Jim Rice played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox from 1974 to 1989.

Olerud played with the Toronto Blue Jays ( 1989 – 96 ), New York Mets ( 1997 – 99 ), Seattle Mariners ( 2000 – 2004 ), New York Yankees ( 2004 ) and Boston Red Sox ( 2005 ).

Modern novels which retell Cú Chulainn's story include Rosemary Sutcliff's 1963 children's novel The Hound of Ulster and Morgan Llywelyn's 1989 historical novel Red Branch, The legends of Cú Chulainn also appear occasionally in Frank McCourt's bestselling 1996 memoir Angela's Ashes.

Red Branch is the title of a Morgan Llewellyn book written in 1989.

The Red Sox retired this number on August 6, 1989 after Yastrzemski was elected to the Hall of Fame.

* Blood Red, 1989

ISAW then selected the Phoenix area and on July 17, 1989 announced the exact site as a donated 300 acres of a 7, 500-acre cotton farm between Phoenix and Tucson once owned by movie star John Wayne, known as John Wayne's Red River Ranch, in Casa Grande, Arizona.

* Jim Ed Rice: former professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox from 1974 to 1989.

They've also toured with and opened for artists such as Bad Religion in 1988, GWAR in 1989, Nirvana and Alice in Chains in 1990, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, Rollins Band and Beastie Boys in 1992, Pearl Jam in 1994 and Marilyn Manson and The Offspring in 1997.

He starred in the remake of The Masque of the Red Death ( 1989 ), a re-telling of the Edgar Allan Poe tale.

* The Masque of the Red Death ( 1989 )

* " Marooned " ( Red Dwarf episode ), a 1989 episode of the television show Red Dwarf

* Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers, 1989 book based on TV series

Other films with scenes in Georgetown are The Man with One Red Shoe ( 1985, an early Tom Hanks film ), Chances Are ( 1989 ), Timecop ( 1994 ), True Lies ( 1994 ), Dave ( 1993 ), The Jackal ( 1997, private homes ), Enemy of the State ( 1998 ), Spy Games ( 2001 ), Dick ( 1999, C & O Canal ), Election ( 1999 ), Minority Report ( 2002 ), The Recruit ( 2003 ), The Girl Next Door ( 2004 ), Wedding Crashers ( 2005 ), and Transformers ( 2007 ).

In 1989, their album Red was ranked # 23 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the " 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.

* Archeopteryx: A bird-like, flying dinosaur that appeared in the 1989 remake episode, " Red Wings ".