Red Dwarf: Nanarchy [1997]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 7 March 1997
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Executive Producer: Doug Naylor
Producer: Ed Bye
Production Manager: Jo Bennett
Production Co-Ordinator: Esther Rodewald

SCRIPT
Script: Paul Alexander, Doug Naylor
Script Editor: Paul Alexander

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye
1st Assistant Director: Paul Hastings
2nd Assistant Director: Rebecca Hewitt

PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography: Peter Morgan
Camera Operator: Jim Alloway
Gaffer: John Barker

EDITING
Editor: Graham Hutchings

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Nigel Davis
Post Production Sound: Jem Whippey

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Andrea Finch, Sarah Berry
Costumes: Howard Burden, Gill Shaw

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg, Paul McGuiness
Video Effects Designer: Dave Jervis
Additional Video Effects: Chris Veale

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Art Director: Ian Reade-Hill
Prop Master: Tim Youngman
Prop Buyer: Laurie Law

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Christine Moses
PA to Producers / Director: Tessa Glover
Production Accountant: Mike Amos
General Manager GNP Ltd: Helen Norman

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Cliff Pinnock

CASTING
Casting Director: Linda Glover

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Chloe Annett [Kristine Kochanski]
Nicky Leatherbarrow [Caroline Carmen]
Norman Lovett [Holly]

Lister is having a hard time adjusting to life with just one arm and Kochanski thinks she might have the answer - Kryten's self-repair system, a swarm of sub-atomic nanobots. But Kryten's nanobots have been missing since the encounter with the despair squid [see Back to Reality] and the hunt is on to find the tiny robots. When they are finally discovered [hiding in Lister's laundry basket, the last place anyone would look!] it turns out that a while ago they took something that belonged to the crew - something very big and very red, something they've now reconstructed...

A fantastic end to a generally very poor series. The episode is worth it if only for the return of two of the show's best loved icons. Continuity references abound and the scale of the ideas and scope of the narrative [it ties up a major plot strand dating back to Psirens] is genuinely impressive.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1997
March
7: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

BOOKS

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

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; robots; nano technology