28 years ago tonight at 9pm here in the UK, a Sci-Fi comedy was born. It began with an impressionist [Chris Barrie], a stand up comic [Craig Charles] and a dancer [Danny John-Jules], and according to the story inside the old Red Dwarf - Series 1 DVD collectors book, changed the face of TV comedy forever, and funnily enough, as today is a Monday, it actually was a Monday that the show started on back in 1988.
And during the broadcast of that first series, yours truly a.k.a. me :iconDoctorWhoOne: was born, between episode 4 [Waiting for God] and episode 5 [Confidence & Paranoia] on Saturday 12th March 1988, so me and the series are the same age really all the time, born a few short weeks apart

If you've actually never watched the very first episode that was broadcast 28 years ago tonight, then here it is, thou annoyingly, every upload of this on YouTube all feature a background and the episode looks small on the video, but it is the entire first episode, so if you can pretend it's