Three million years later, when Lister was brought out of stasis, Rimmer was chosen by Holly to be reactivated as a hologram in order to keep Lister company and prevent him from being driven insane with loneliness.

Furthermore, in the episode " Out of Time ", Rimmer is disgusted by his corrupt future self to the point where he'd rather do battle with him than surrender, Rimmer later frantically risking his life to save the others after they are killed by their future selves.

As the damage to the ship becomes irreparable, Kryten, Lister, Kochanski and the Cat fix the machine and cross into the mirror universe to escape, Rimmer would later become stuck on board the dying Dwarf as the virus destroys the prism.

Llewellyn was the only British cast member originally invited to participate in the American version of Red Dwarf, though Chris Barrie was, later, also approached to reprise his role of Rimmer as " no American actor could hate themselves " quite so well as the character needed.

Rimmer joined the Liverpool City Police in 1901 and retired as sergeant 30 years later.

Robert Rimmer stated, " Little did I know as a growing fetus in Blanche's womb that twenty-nine years later Relief Printing Corporation would own me, and FH, as I began to call him (" Dad " seemed inappropriate when I was finally in business with him ), would be subtly controlling my life.

In episode 6 of series 4, " Meltdown ", Arnold Rimmer and Kryten arrive on a planet they will later discover is a giant Waxdroid theme park.

There was also a dream of a garden of rest on Market Square ( outside Osmond Terrace which now has parked cars ), with ornamental trees and clumps of shrubs in front of what was Victoria Hotel which is now a dwelling and previously a shop owned by Mr & Mrs. Rimmer, and nearby to the Victoria Inn at the time which later became Midland Bank / HSBC, but unfortunately this was never fulfilled.

Born in Southport, Lancashire, Rimmer joined Manchester United as a schoolboy in 1963, turning professional two years later.

In turn, this has pushed Rimmer to several psychotic episodes and breakdowns during exams, and on one occasion caused him to write " I am a fish " repeatedly on the exam paper.

The record label's logo, based on a drawing called Evening: Fall of Day ( 1869 ) by William Rimmer, features a picture of Apollo.

* Rimmerworld — A planet populated by millions of clones of Arnold Rimmer who had spent six hundred years alone on this planet, creating clones of himself in a failed attempt to create a girlfriend.

The company logo was based on Evening also called The Fall of Day ( 1869 ) by painter William Rimmer, featuring a picture of the Greek god Apollo.

For most of the series the character of Arnold Rimmer was a hologram, requiring Barrie to wear an " H " on his forehead during filming.

The episode featured an Apollo astronaut " Bob Grodin " ( played by Shane Rimmer ) who claims to have stumbled on a mysterious lunar base during his moonwalk.

In the series Red Dwarf, Earth is seen mainly as the goal of the crew's trip ; Dave Lister is personally obsessed with revisiting it as his home world, especially since he is the only character to be from there as Arnold Rimmer was born on Io.

* The Harrad Experiment, a 1973 film directed by Ted Post, based on a novel by Robert H. Rimmer, starring James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren

Within the fictional universe of Red Dwarf, Rimmer was born on Io, somewhere during the 21st through 23rd centuries, where he suffered an unhappy childhood.

His father had been rejected from the Space Corps in his youth for being an inch below regulation height, and was thus fixated on all his sons succeeding where he had failed ; to which end, he refused to allow them to eat unless they could answer complicated astronavigation questions, and stretched them on a rack to make them taller causing Rimmer to reach a great height at an early age.

At the end of Series VIII, in the final episode, " Only the Good ...", when a chameleonic microbe destroys Red Dwarf and everyone else evacuates to a mirror universe, Rimmer is trapped on the disintegrating ship.

On the audio commentary for the Director's Cut, when Rimmer recalls Cat's references to the despair squid, writer / director Doug Naylor says that the scene " says a few interesting things about who the man with the " H " is on his head, ' cause I think it can only be one of one person ".

Rimmer's poor repair work on the drive plate was responsible for the radiation leak that killed the crew, and Rimmer bore the guilt of this ( although he also partly blamed Lister for the accident, as he was unable to help repair the drive plate due to being in stasis at the time ).

In addition to his fondness for militarism, elitism and Hammond organ music, Rimmer also enjoys Morris dancing and is an authority on 20th century telegraph poles, especially those observed while train spotting.

He has attempted to coerce Lister to shoot a dangerous Simulant in the back ( bemoaning the fact that said Simulant was currently awake ), suggested shooting Kryten and Lister into space when they appeared on the ship in a timeline where they had been erased from history, suggested that he and Kryten eject Lister and Cat from Starbug when it was revealed that the ship lacked fuel to reach the nearest planet-although this was also prompted by the discovery that the ship only had air for seven minutes and was ended when Rimmer learned that his projection unit only had enough power for four minutes -, and casually pushed a fellow hologram into traffic after she repeatedly threatened to have him " erased ".

A female officer aboard the ship, Nirvanah Crane, falls in love with him and sacrifices her place on the ship for Rimmer, only for Rimmer to do the same in return for her.

When Lister and The Cat respond to a drill too slowly, Rimmer argues for increased discipline and sensible haircuts, believing that " every major battle in history has been won by the side with the shortest haircuts " ( resulting in the Cat insulting his hair-do by saying ' that he had hair like his, just not on his head ').

Among the actors who auditioned for Rimmer were Norman Lovett ( who went on to play Holly instead ), David Baddiel, Hugh Laurie, and Alfred Molina.

*" The Birthday " was recorded by The Fall with vocals by then-bandmember Lucy Rimmer and no apparent contributions from bandleader Mark E. Smith ; it was released as " Birthday " on their 1996 compilation album Sinister Waltz.

The Padre smokes a pipe and congratulates Ace Rimmer on helping a sick boy recover.

As a third-class technician, Lister was the lowest ranking crewman on Red Dwarf, a ship with a crew of 169, and spent his time performing tasks too menial for the skutters ( under the hated supervision of Arnold Rimmer ), or getting drunk with his friends Olaf Petersen, Selby and Chen.

Music journalist Dave Rimmer considered the peak of the movement was the Live Aid concert of July 1985, after which " everyone seemed to take hubristic tumbles ", and Simon Reynolds also notes the " Do They Know Its Christmas " single in late 1984 and Live Aid in 1985 as a turning points, with the movement seen as having become decadent, with " overripe arrangements and bloated videos " for songs like Duran Duran's " The Wild Boys " and Culture Club's " War Song ".

Rimmer left home when he was 16, hoping he would get into the Space Academy, which for an unknown reason he could not ( possibly due to his exam performance ).

Rimmer also earned two swimming certificates: one Bronze Swimming Certificate, and one Silver Swimming Certificate ( Despite not being not able to swim ) — BSc and SSc respectively — which he includes in official correspondence.

Rimmer died in the radiation leak which wiped out the entire crew of Red Dwarf, with the exception of Lister, who was in stasis at the time, and Lister's pregnant cat, Frankenstein, who was safe in the ship's hold.

After an encounter with a female despair squid, Rimmer and the rest of the crew hallucinate an alternate reality in which they are fictional characters and their lives are just a TV show that they have somehow escaped from.

In the first two series it is a grey-and-beige shirt-and-tie ensemble ; in Series III and IV this becomes a green suit with a shiny high-collared jacket, which is changed to red in Series V ; in Series VI and VII, Rimmer's jacket becomes quilted and is red when he is in soft-light form and blue for hard-light ; the alive Rimmer in Series VIII wears an all-beige uniform similar in design to the original.

In the 2009 three-part special " Back to Earth ", Rimmer wears a blue suit similar to his Series III and VI green suit but with the addition of a plain waist-high belt worn over the jacket and a quilted collar ; possibly being part of a quilted under shirt which though the jacket is not removed at all during any of the 3 episodes.

* In the Red Dwarf episode " Timeslides ", Dave Lister travels back in time using a mutated photograph of a pub in Liverpool where his band once played a gig to give his teenage self the idea of inventing the Tension Sheet ( a stress relief tool invented by Fred ' Thickie ' Holden, a former classmate of Arnold Rimmer, which earned him millions ).

He reappeared in Red Dwarf in 1999 as the voice of the vending machine which threatens Arnold Rimmer in the final episode of the series, " Only the Good ...".

Rimmer and Bishop also appeared in the BBC drama-documentary Hiroshima, which was completed not long after Bishop's death in 2005.

In the British sci-fi / comedy TV series Red Dwarf, the character Dave Lister uses a sci-fi inspired version to determine which version of the hologrammatic Arnold Rimmer should be deleted when the two cannot get along.

Rimmer's habit of quoting Space Corps directives eventually becomes a key part of his personality, so much so that when Lister begins to miss Rimmer in in Series VII, Episode " Blue ", he has a homoerotic dream in which Kochanski's inability to cite Space Corps directives is seen as a defect:

States that crew members in quarantine must be provided with minimum leisure facilities, which Rimmer takes to mean: ' a chess set with 31 missing pieces, a knitting magazine with a pull-out special on crocheted hats, a puzzle magazine with all the crosswords completed and a video of the excellent cinematic treat, Wall-Papering, Painting, And Stippling — A DIY Guide.

There are also a number of Rimmer Directives, which Rimmer makes up to counter Kryten's use of the regulations:

Robert Henry Rimmer ( March 14, 1917 – Quincy, Massachusetts, August 1, 2001 ) was the author of several books, most notably The Harrad Experiment, which was made into a film in 1973.

Cramming into Ace's one-man ship Wildfire, which he had programmed for another jump, they cross dimensions-their only other option being to go back to an uninhabited and gutted Red Dwarf in this universe -, finding themselves in a timeline where Kryten and Rimmer are still alive, but their own counterparts died playing Better Than Life.

He continued to play in goal for Manchester United in a period of significant underachievement for the club, which culminated in their relegation to the Second Division in 1974, a season which saw Stepney, unusually for a goalkeeper, score two goals from penalties thus making him the ( joint ) leading scorer at Christmas For half a season he was replaced by Jimmy Rimmer.

A person like the Cat, who has such a huge ego that he truly believes he could get anything, can get anything, while a person like Rimmer, filled with self-loathing, will eventually create a fantasy in which their entire life is destroyed-Rimmer at one point placed himself in a scenario where he was pimped out by violent escaped criminals while trapped in a female body, becoming even more disturbed when he realises that a woman he was about to marry was actually a version of his mother.

Based on the 1962 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this film deals with the concept of free love during the height of the sexual revolution which took place in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s.