10 Sci-Fi TV Shows You Can Quit Before The End

Hitting our screens way back in 1988, Red Dwarf was a smash hit space comedy that focussed on a bunch of loveable misfits and idiots that had somehow survived on a long range mining ship after a three million year trip away from Earth. Thus, in complete isolation, the four crew of the ship and their senile computer had to find ways to amuse themselves and keep the ship running throughout all sorts of mishaps.

Red Dwarf was comedy gold back when it was under the initial writing duo of Rob Grant and Doug Naylor and ran for six series under their pens. While there were a few decisions that weren't great and a few episodes that didn't really work, the majority of those first 36 episodes were truly funny and very clever.

Then Rob Grant decided that he, in his words, 'wanted to look at his grave stone and see more than just Red Dwarf there' and struck out on his own. Doug Naylor stuck with the series and brought on extra writers, but the magic was gone and the stories got stranger and less interesting. Since then there's been a number of renewals, hiatuses and revivals, but it was generally best to leave it back at the end of series six. In this story, the crew of the Starbug (the titular ship itself having disappeared into a plot-hole) have to fight their future selves and the ending of the episode itself serves as a decent enough finale for the whole series.