Red Dwarf: Queeg [1988]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 4 October 1988
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Paul Jackson Productions
Executive Producer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Ed Bye
Production Manager: Mike Agnew
Unit Manager: Kelvin Jones

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: Trish King
Camera Supervisor: Melvyn Cross
Vision Supervisor: John Battye

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

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Tony Worthington

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Bethan Jones
Costume Designer: Jacki Pinks

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Paul Montague
Prop Buyer: Mike Fallon
Graphic Designer: Mark Allen

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Team: Helen Campbell, Kate Preston
Technical Co-Ordinator: Andrew Cowley
Assistant Floor Manager: Dona DiStefano
Production Assistant: Ann Zahl

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Norman Lovett [Holly]
Charles Augins [Queeg]

The crew finally losing their patience with the increasingly senile Holly. Having failed to warn them of their impending collision with a meteorite and the resultant [temporary] loss of Rimmer's legs, Holly is 'switched off' and the back up personality, Queeg 500, is introduced as his replacement. Holly is demoted to night watchman as Queeg introduces a brutal new regime of physical exercise and by-the-book discipline. Eventually, Holly challenges Queeg to a came of chess, the loser to be switched off permanently...

The weakest of the second series episodes. The final revelation is really all there is to this rather feeble episode. There are a few decent bits along the way but really this just a one-gag show, one that wasn't that great to begin with. It was certainly nice to see Holly exert himself for a change and come out with the upper hand [and his dying rendition of Goodbye to Love is a classic moment] but the situation simply wasn't enough to fill out a half hour episode without considerable padding.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

1988
October
4: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

2001
August
4: UK - television broadcast [on UK Gold]

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.83-85
review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers