Red Dwarf: Back in the Red Part One [1999]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 18 February 1999
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Grant Naylor Productions / BBC
Executive Producer: Doug Naylor
Producer: Ed Bye
Line Producer: Jo Bennett
Production Co-Ordinator: Rachel Stewart

SCRIPT
Script: Doug Naylor
Script Associate: Paul Alexander

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye
1st Assistant Director: Julie Sykes

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Peter Morgan
Camera Operator: Andy Martin
Gaffer: John Barker

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Mark Wybourn
Vision Mixer: John Barclay
Post Production Co-Ordinator: Simon Burchell

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisors: Jem Whippey, Geoff Moss
Location Sound: Nigel Davis
Engineering Manager: Alan Godleman

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make-Up Designer: Andrea Finch
Costume Designer: Howard Burden

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designers: Jim Francis, Bill Pearson, Ed Smith
Digital Effects Designer: Chris Veale

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Art Director: Ian Reade-Hill
Graphic Designer: Andy Spence
Props Master: Paul De Csernatony
Props Buyer: Tim Youngman

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Gillian Wood
Production Assistant: Mike Amos
General Manager [GNP]: Helen Norman
Stage Manager: Jacqueline Zoppi-Tighe

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Ken Hawkins

CASTING
Casting Director: Linda Glover

CAST
Chris Barrie [Rimmer]
Craig Charle [Lister]
Danny John-Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Chloe Annett [Kochanski]
Norman Lovett [Holly]
Mac McDonald [Captain]
Paul Bradley [Chen]
David Gillespie [Selby]
Karl Glenn Stimpson [MP Thornton]
Kika Mirylees [Doc Newton]
Andy Taylor [Dr McClaren]
John Lynch [Nige - uncredited]

The Red Dwarf has been reconstructed by Kryten's nanobots and with it the entire crew. Lister is threatened with imprisonment for stealing the Starbug and finds himself reunited with a resurrected Rimmer. Lister manages to persuade Rimmer to help him track down the nanbots in return for information that will help him with his promotion hopes. But Rimmer is distracted when he finds vials of Dr Lanstrom's luck virus and her sexual magnetism virus.

A great start to the new series which carefully reinvents the whole show, recapturing some of the magic of earlier seasons while retaining the hi-tech, action oriented feel of later episodes. It was a much needed shot in the arm for a show that looked like it was on its last legs during the last season.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1999
February
18: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition]
review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; robots