Red Dwarf: DNA [1991]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 21 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]
Richard Ridings [DNA computer voice]

On a derelict spaceship, the boys from the Dwarf discover a device that can alter a subject's genetic makeup. After Lister is temporarily turned into a chicken, Kryten becomes human and finds that it's not all he hoped it might be. But when they try to turn him back into a mechanoid, the crew succeed only in unleashing a genetically modified vindaloo beast and it's up to Lister - transformed into Man Plus - to save the day.

Thanks to a late change in the running order, Robert Llewellyn gets his second starring episode in a row and makes the most of it - his turn as the 'human' Kryten is spot on. The vindaloo beast is a classic of its type and Lister's way of defeating it is perfectly in character.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

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

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.104-106
review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers; genetics