Red Dwarf: Me2 [1988]

Date(s) of Broadcast: 21 March 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: Mick Jackson

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Jill Dornan
Videotape Editor: Ed Wooden

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Tony Worthington
Sound: Alan Machin, Wendy Rath

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Suzanne Jansen
Costume Designer: Jacki Pinks
Costume Assistant: Lesley Staves

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]
Mac McDonald [Captain Hollister]

With two hologram Rimmer's aboard, things are looking bleak for Lister and the Cat. But they hadn't reckoned on Rimmer's inability to get along even with himself and soon the two Rimmer's have fallen out. Lister, fascinated by an entry in Rimmer's diary concerning "Gazpacho soup day" uses the hologram's predicament to find out the truth about the most humiliating day in Rimmer's life.

A great end to the series with the classic gazpacho soup story at its heart - one almost [though not quite] feels sorry for Rimmer by the end of it! The interplay between the two Rimmers is well played by Barrie and the final line ["Super!"] is a gem. All in all a very worthy climax to Red Dwarf's first season.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

1988
March
21: UK - television broadcast

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

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.65-67
credits, synopsis

space travel; computers; cats; spaceships; robots; holograms