Red Dwarf: Camille [1991]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 14 February 1991
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC / Grant Naylor Production
Producer: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor, Ed Bye
Associate Producer: Candida Julian-Jones
Production Manager: Julian Scott

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Rocket
Vision Supervisor: Mike Spencer

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Simon Sanders
Videotape Editor: Graham Hutchings

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Keith Mayes

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Andria Pennell
Costume Designer: Howard Burden

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Properties: Peter Blackall
Prop Buyer: Don Cave
Graphic Designer: Paul D'Auria

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Team: Celia Bargh, Malread Carfah
Production Assistant: Christine Moses
Production Accountant: Joanna Birkenshaw
Stage Manager: Kerry Waddell

CASTING
Casting: Judy Davis

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Hatty Hayridge [Holly]
Judy Pascoe [Mechanoid Camille]
Francesca Folen [Hologram Camille]
Suzanne Rhatigan [Kochanski Camille]
Rupert Bates [Hector Blob]

On a rescue mission, Kryten meets and falls in love with the mechanoid Camille. But when he introduces her to Rimmer, he sees her as someone else, as does Lister. She turns out to be a pleasure GELF [genetically engineered life form] that adapts itself to match the observer's notions of beauty [Cat, naturally, sees himself]. Proving that beauty is only skin deep, Kryten continues to woo Camille even after she reveals her true form, a disgusting green blob. But the arrival of Hector Blob teaches Kryten a valuable lesson about human relations.

A disappointingly routine start to the new season. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with it, but there's nothing special about it either. The Casablanca connection is rather strained, but it was good to see Robert Llewellyn taking the limelight.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1991
February
14: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.102-104
review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers; aliens; shape-shifters; genetics