Red Dwarf: Future Echoes [1988]

Date(s) of Broadcast: 22 February 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: Mike Jackson
Vision Mixer: Jill Dornan

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
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: Ron Clare
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]
John Lenahan [toaster]
Tony Hawks [dispensing machine]

As the Red Dwarf approaches light speed, the crew experience 'future echoes', glimpses of things to come. While Lister tries his best to cope with these strange phenomena, he also has to make an important decision about whether or not to return to stasis.

A fine indicator of the way that Red Dwarf would develop, using science fiction staples in a clever and amusing way. The show was shaping up nicely as not just a sitcom that happens to be set in space but as genuine science fiction with a sense of humour. The final revelations would come back to haunt Lister over the coming seasons.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

1988
February
22: UK - television broadcast

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

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.63-65
credits, synopsis

space travel; time travel; light speed; computers; cats; spaceships