Which Chris Barrie role is better?

Rimmer, but only because of Ace... and because he got to be more fleshed out over the seasons than Brittas, IMO.

Red dwarf hands down

Fun fact The thin blue line was originally written for Chris Barrie but they ended up casting Rowan Atkinson after Barrie turned down the role

Red Dwarf was up to a rather astonishing 8 million viewers by Series VIIIs premiere ep in 1999, so I would not hold its status on BBC2 against it. Any other show with numbers even remotely like that woulda been bumped to BBC1 but as Naylor said, it was such a horrible time for sci-fi at the BBC that they were wiping the floor with BBC1 competition most weeks...and instead of bein congratulated, it was almost held against RD in a "how dare they.." kinda way.

For me while Barrie has more to do as Rimmer, Ace, the evolution of normal Rimmer etc - Brittas is a classic character too. In the tradition of Arthur Lowe in Dads Army in playing a character who feels he is far more important than he is. Yet Chris did manage to instill a bit of heart and awareness into him. Just so much to keep him from an audience really hating him. Brittas never acts out of malice.

Its also a much darker show than many remember - it kills off pensioners and kids in very macabre ways. Which is one reason the end of the show was so reviled, it undercut all that.

And overseas he is probably better known as Lara Crofts butler in the Jolie Tomb Raiders.

Wow! I would never have thought of PD to play Mr. Brittas in 'The Brittas Empire'! Tim

Tim

Adric, maybe?