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

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 4 March 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, Clement Ishmael

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, Mark Howard
Digital Effects Designer: Chris Veale

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Art Director: Ian Reade-Hill
Graphic Designers: Andy Spence, Ben Shepherd
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
Choreography: Charles Augins

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]
Graham McTavish [Ackerman]
Yasmin Bannerman [1st ground controller]
Jeillo Edwards [2nd ground controller]
Karl Glenn Stimpson [MP Thornton]

Still trapped inside a virtual reality, the crew of Starbug continue their efforts to escape. Cat spots a 'trapdoor' and they all manage to escape and team up with Rimmer, also on the run from the Red Dwarf guards. But how sure are they that they have escaped the virtual world?

The opening trilogy of tales comes to a satisfactory conclusion and sets up the rest of the season. The Cat tap dancing with a Blue Midget spacecraft is fantastic, though the claymation screensaver sequence looks a bit naff.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1999
March
4: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

BOOKS

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

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; robots; virtual reality; prison; computers; dancing; viruses