Captain Hollister
Captain Frank Hollister is a character in the
British sitcom Red Dwarf. He is played by
American actor
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Plot or ending details follow.
Hollister is the overweight captain of the interplanetary mining vessel Red Dwarf. He is seen in the first episode, in which he sentences Dave Lister to six months in stasis for bringing a cat on board. When Lister is released Hollister, along with the rest of the crew, has been radioactive dust for three million years.
Hollister was briefly seen in the final episode of the season in Arnold Rimmer's video of his own death, (although the credits only list him as "The Captain"). He has just enough time to blame Rimmer for the accident which is about to wipe out the crew before the initial explosion hits.
He had a more substantial role in the second season episode, Stasis Leak, in which the regulars travel back in time. He is seen once more upbraiding Lister, this time for slipping hallucinogens into Rimmer's breakfast, and later in a chicken outfit for a fancy-dress party, being assaulted by Rimmer who believes him to be a hallucination.
In Season 8, with the crew ressurected by nanobots, Hollister became a main character. While his main purpose still seemed to be railing at Lister and Rimmer, we learnt some more about him, most notably that his wife's name is Martha; that his weight is at least partially due to his love of orange ice-pops, mint choc chip ice cream, cola, and Martha's muffins; and, most interestingly, that he gained his position through blackmail and is really Dennis the Doughnut Boy.
