Red Dwarf: Confidence and Paranoia [1988]

[Series 1, Episode 5]

Date of Original Broadcast: 14 March 1988
Running Times: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC / Paul Jackson Productions
Executive Producer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Ed Bye
Production Manager: George R. Clarke
Unit Manager: Mario Dubois

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Mick Jackson

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Jill Dornan
Videotape Editor: Ed Wooden

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Tony Worthington

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Suzanne Jansen
Costume Designer: Jacki Pinks

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Paul Montague
Prop Buyer: Mike Fallon
Graphic Designer: Mark Allen

MISCELLANEOUS
Technical Co-Ordinator: John Spicer
Assistant Floor Manager: Dona DiStefano
Production Assistant: Alison Thornber

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Norman Lovett [Holly]
Lee Cornes [Paranoia]
Craig Ferguson [Confidence]

Lister contracts a mystery illness while searching for the missing crew hologram disks and soon his hallucinations are taking on physical form. The personifications of his paranoia and confidence are soon walking the corridors of the Red Dwarf and, thanks to the latter, it looks like Lister might finally be reunited with Kochanski. But Rimmer has a sneaky trick up his sleeve...

Another cracking episodes with fabulous performances from Lee Cornes as Lister's sniveling paranoia and Craig Ferguson as his smarmy confidence, who resembles a particularly obnoxious game show host. Rimmer is on top form here and the ending is unexpected and hilarious.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

1988
March
14: UK - television broadcast

2001
July
28: UK - television broadcast [on UK Gold]

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.65-67
credits, synopsis

space travel; computers; cats; spaceships; robots; holograms; paranoia; hallucinations; sickness

Last Updated: 2 March, 2008