Red Dwarf: Pete Part One [1999]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 7 March 1999 [USA]; 25 March 1999 [UK]
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

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: Mark 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, Ed Smith, Mark Howard
Digital Effects Designer: Chris Veale

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Art Director: Ian Reade-Hill
Graphic Designer: Andy Spence
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]
Graham McTavish [Ackerman]
Andrew Alston [Mex]
Holly Earl [young Kochanski]
Perri Michael [young Cat]
Ricki Grover [Baxter]
Ian Masters [Bird Man]
Shend [Warden Knot]

Having got themselves in deep trouble with the captain [thanks to a programmable virus and a huge mountain of potatoes], Rimmer and Lister are thrown into The Hole where they meet an older prisoner, Birdman, and his pet sparrow Pete. Meanwhile, Cat, Kryten and Kochanski lead the Canaries on a mission that lands them a device that can digitize and manipulate time. When, back on Red Dwarf, the time wand meets Pete the sparrow, it has unexpected results.

A great episode that juggles its two storylines well and shows no sign of it having been expanded from a single episode into a two parter. It's a shame that Birdman didn't last the course, though Pete - and his monstrous alter ego - are great, if temporary, additions to the crew.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1999
March
7: USA - television broadcast [KTEH-54, San Jose, California]
25: UK - televison broadcast [on BBC2]

BOOKS

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

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; robots; birds; dinosaurs; frozen time