Red Dwarf: Justice [1991]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 28 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]
Nicholas Ball [simulant]
James Smille [Justice Computer voice]

When they return a pod that might contain a dangerous criminal simulant to Justice World, the crew are examined by the Justice Computer which probes their minds for signs of guilt over crimes they may have committed. For most of the crew - even Lister, who owns up to having gone scrumping for cars and stealing entire hotel rooms - there's little to worry about. But Rimmer's warped sense of guilt is about to earn him several ice ages behind bars...

A story of two halves, both of which have much to offer but which don't really gel too well. The Justice World stuff is the best, particularly Kryten's eloquent trashing of Rimmer in the name of defending him. But the bit with the psychotic simulant seems to belong to a different episode and even gets forgotten about, even by the crew, until virtually the last minute.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

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

BOOKS

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

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers; simulants