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Red Dwarf: Only the Good [1999]
Country of
Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 7 March 1999
[USA]; 5 April 1999 [UK]
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Grant Naylor Productions / BBC
Executive Producer: Doug Naylor
Producer: Ed Bye
Line Producer: Jo Bennett
Production Co-Ordinator: Rachel Stewart
SCRIPT
Script: Doug Naylor
Script Associate: Paul Alexander
DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye
1st Assistant Director: Julie Sykes
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Peter Morgan
Camera Operator: Andy Martin
Gaffer: John Barker
EDITING AND POST
PRODUCTION
Editor: Ark Wybourn
Vision Mixer: John Barclay
Post Production Co-Ordinator: Simon Burchell
MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall, Clement Ishmael
SOUND
Sound Supervisors: Jem Whippey, Geoff Moss
Location Sound: Nigel Davis
Engineering Manager: Alan Godleman
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make-Up Designer: Andrea Finch
Costume Designer: Howard Burden
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designers: Jim Francis, Bill Pearson, Mark
Howard
Digital Effects Designer: Chris Veale
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Art Director: Ian Reade-Hill
Graphic Designers: Andy Spence, Ben Shepherd
Props Master: Paul De Csernatony
Props Buyer: Tim Youngman
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Gillian Wood
Production Assistant: Mike Amos
General Manager [GNP]: Helen Norman
Stage Manager: Jacqueline Zoppi-Tighe
CASTING
Casting Director: Linda Glover
CAST
Chris Barrie [Rimmer]
Craig Charle [Lister]
Danny John-Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Chloe Annett [Kochanski]
Norman Lovett [Holly]
Mac McDonald [Captain Hollister]
Heidi Monsen [Talia]
Tony Slattery [voice of the dispensing machine]
Ricky Grover [Baxter]
David Verrey [Big Meat]
Graham McTavish [Ackerman]
Ed Bye [theGrim Reaper - uncredited]
SUMMARY
A chameleonic microbe
that has already destroyed the SS Hermes is now devouring
the Red Dwarf. The crew abandon ship, leaving Lister,
Rimmer, Cat, Kryten and Kochanski behind. Kryten manages
to send Rimmer into a parallel universe in search of a
solution to their problem where he becomes captain of the
Red Dwarf! Retrieving an antidote to the microbe, Rimmer
returns to his own universe only to find that the others
have escaped to the mirror world and the ship is about to
be destroyed. Is this really the end for Arnold J.
Rimmer?
CAPSULE REVIEW
Like most of the recent
seasons, eight comes to a close on a cliffhanger and it's
one of the best so far. It's perhaps not as funny as some
of the other episodes, but it still works well and
Rimmer's encounter with Death itself certainly raises a
laugh. A worthy end to the season and the final caption
[The End? The smeg it is!] promises more to come.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1999
March
7: USA - television broadcast [KTEH-54, San Jose,
California]
April
5: UK - televison broadcast [on BBC2]
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Mirror,
Mirror - early title
Mirror/rorriM - early title
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd
edition]
review, synopsis
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms;
robots; parallel universes; microbes; death personified;
mirrors
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