Red Dwarf: Rimmerworld [1993]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 4 November 1993
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

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, Nick Kool
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, David Lawrence
Floor Manager: Simon Wallace
Production Assistant: Christine Moses
Technical Manager: Jeff Jeffery
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]
Liz Hickling [rogue simulant]

While exploring the structurally unsound rogue simulant ship they destroyed in Gunmen of the Apocalypse, the crew are cornered by a surviving simulant and narrowly avoid death in a shipquake. Rimmer leaves his crewmates to it and bails out in a life pod. The others also escape and have bad news for Rimmer - he's heading into a wormhole and, thanks to time dilation, won't be rescued for 600 years. By the time the others catch up, Rimmer has created Rimmerworld, a society of clones of himself.

Imagine if you can a world full of Arnold J. Rimmer clones... Wonderful stuff, with Chris Barrie giving one of his best performances as the stressed out creator of the universe's worst society. The ending is a bit weak [something of a staple of season six] but overall it's one of the best of the season.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1993
November
4: UK - televison broadcast [on BBC2]

BOOKS

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

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; robots; clones; terraforming; wormholes; time dilation