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Red Dwarf: Psirens [1993]
Country of
Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 7 October 1993
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Grant Naylor Productions for the BBC
Executive Producers: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Producer: Justin Judd
Production Manager: Kerry Waddell
Production Co-Ordinator: Cressida Sherston
SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
DIRECTION
Director: Andy De Emmony
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Rocket
Console Operator: Dai Thomas
Gaffer: Ron Green
Vision Supervisor: Mike Spencer
EDITING AND POST
PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Simon Sanders
Videotape Editor: Graham Hutchings
Insert Editor: Peter Bates
MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall
SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Keith Mayes
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up Designers: Andria Pennell, Lois Burwell
Costume Designers: Howard Burden, Gill Shaw
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designers: Peter Wragg, Paul McGuiness
Video Effects: Karl Mooney
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designers: Mel Bibby, Stephen Bradshaw
Property Master: Simon Dalton
Properties Buyer: Springer Horrill
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Team: Bridget Chick, Mark Baker
Floor Manager: Simon Wallace
Production Assistant: Christine Moses
Technical Manager: Jeff Jeffry
Stage Manager: Rina Konstantinou
Production Accountant: Louise Westaway
LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Suzannah Holt
CASTING
Casting: Jane Davis
CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Jenny Agutter [Professor Mamet]
Samantha Robson [Pete Tranter's sister]
Anita Dobson [Captain Tau]
Richard Ridings [crazed astro]
C.P. Grogan [Kochanski]
Zoe Hilson, Elizabeth Anson [temptresses]
Phil Manzanera [guitar playing hands]
SUMMARY
Lister is woken from his
slumbers by Kryten only to find history repeating itself
- his latest nap has lasted some 200 years. In the
interim, the crew have been stranded on Starbug after
Lister carelessly lost Red Dwarf, inconveniently
forgetting which blue-green planet he parked the ship in
orbit around. The ship - and Holly - has been stolen by
the Psirens, brain sucking aliens that can assume any
form they wish.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A slightly disappointing
start to the series, simply rehashing a lot of the ideas
from Polymorph. It looks great though and the
scenes of the Psiren attacks are suitably nasty. Nice to
see Kochanski again too.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1993
October
7: UK - televison broadcast [on BBC2]
REFERENCES
BOOKS
Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd
edition]
review, synopsis
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits KEYWORDS
spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms;
robots; aliens; brains; shape shifters
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