Red Dwarf: Kryten [1988]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 6 September 1988
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Paul Jackson Productions
Executive Producer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Ed Bye
Production Manager: Mike Agnew
Unit Manager: Kelvin Jones

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Melvyn Cross
Vision Supervisor: Len Greenhalgh

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: Bethan Jones
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
Production Team: Helen Campbell, Kate Preston
Technical Co-Ordinator: Andrew Cowley
Assistant Floor Manager: Dona DiStefano
Production Assistant: Ann Zahl

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Norman Lovett [Holly]
David Ross [Kryten]
Johanna Hargreaves [the Esperanto woman]
Tony Slattery [android actor]

The crew of the Red Dwarf meet the service mechanoid Kryten in the ruins of the crashed spaceship the Nova V. They take him on board and Lister tries to get him to break his programming, to stop being a toadying menial and act for himself. Rimmer on the other hand sees the mechanoid's subservience as a chance to boss him around.

Our first introduction to Kryten, though this is a very different mechanoid to the one we come to know and love in later years. The scenes of the crew preparing to meet their first women in three million years are hilarious and their disappointment at what they actually find is almost too much to bear. An extremely good start to the new season.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

1988
September
6: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

2001
August
4: UK - television broadcast [on UK Gold]

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.74-76
review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers; robots