Red Dwarf: Marooned [1989]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 21 November 1989
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC / Paul Jackson Productions
Executive Producer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Ed Bye, Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Assistant Producer: Gilly Archer
Production Manager: Mike Agnew
Unit Manager: Janet Smith

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Dave Fox

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Sonia Lovett
Videotape Editor: Ed Wooden

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Tony Worthington

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Bethan Jones
Costume Designer: Howard Burden

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Prop Buyer: Stella McIntyre
Graphic Designer: Mark Allen

MISCELLANEOUS
Producer's Assistant: Christina Hamilton
Assistant Floor Manager: Dona DiStefano

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Hatty Hayridge [Holly]

Following a typically Hollyesque misunderstanding, the crew abandon the Red Dwarf as the vessel approaches a supposed constellation of black holes while the computer guides the ship to safety. While Kryten and The Cat head out in Blue Midget, Rimmer and Lister set off aboard Starbug. Struck by a meteor, Starbug crashes on a barren, inhospitable ice world, stranding its crew...

As money-saving 'bottle' shows go, this isn't at all bad. The interplay between Lister and Rimmer is up to the usual standards and a show featuring just the two of them had been long overdue. Surprisingly, it's Lister who comes off looking the worst for their time together - poor Rimmer may never get over the incident with the camphor wood chest...

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: 15

1989
November
21: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

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

Men of Honour - early title

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.90-92
review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers