Red Dwarf: Holoship [1992]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 20 February 1992
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC / Grant Naylor Production
Executive Producers: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Producer: Hilary Bevan Jones
Associate Producer: Julian Scott
Unit Manager: Irene Gibbons

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Juliet May

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Rocket
Vision Supervisor: Mike Spencer
Gaffer: Ron Green
Console Operator: Dai Thomas

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 Designers: Andria Pennell, Belinda Parrish
Costume Designers: Howard Burden, Gill Shaw

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg, Paul McGuinness
Video Effects: Bruce Steele, Jez Gibson

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Mel Bibby, Stephen Bradshaw
Properties: Paul Purdy
Prop Buyer: Stella McIntyre

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Team: Nichol Hoye, Mairead Curtin
Production Assistant: Christine Moses
Production Accountant: Joanna Birkenshaw
Stage Manager: Kerry Waddell
Technical Manager: Jeff Jeffry

CASTING
Casting: Judy Davis

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Hatty Hayridge [Holly]
Jane Horrocks [Nirvana Crane]
Matthew Marsh [Captain "Air Cooled" Platini]
Don Warrington [Commander Binks]
Lucy Briers [Harrison]
Simon Day [Number Two]
Jane Montgomery [Number One]

While continuing their aimless drift through the cosmos, the Red Dwarf is waylaid by a Space Corps Holoship, "ships of no mass or volume, able to travel as supra light particles". The crew, legendary for their arrogance, appeal to Rimmer's deranged sense of honour and duty [the fact that they indulge in regular bouts of recreational sex also helps] and he opts to throw in his lot with them. A mind patch gives him the intellectual prowess to go head to head with one of the holoship's crew [the only way in is "dead man's boots"], not realising that his cheating will lead to the termination of his opponent - his newfound love, Nirvana Crane.

The hit-and-miss Season Five kicked off with what would hitherto seemed impossible - Rimmer falls in love, gets his end away and learns the meaning of self-sacrifice and commitment. Sadly, their vehicle for exploring all this is a tad tedious and rather too reminiscent of the previous year's opener, Camille.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1992
February
20: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

BOOKS

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

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers; mind patches; exams