Red Dwarf: The Inquisitor [1992]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 27 February 1992
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Grant Naylor Prods
Executive Producer: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Producer: Hilary Bevan Jones
Associate Producer: Julian Scott
Unit Manager: Irene Gibbons

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Juliet May, Grant Naylor [rn: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor]

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Rockit
Vision Supervisor: Mike Spencer
Gaffer: Ron Green
Console Operator: Dai Thomas

EDITING
Vision Mixer: Simon Sanders
Videotape Editor: Graham Hutchings

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Keith Mayes

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Andria Pennell, Belinda Parrish
Costume Designer: Howard Burden, Gill Shaw

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg, Paul McGuinness
Video Effects: Bruce Steele, Jez Gibson

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby, Stephen Bradshaw
Props: Paul Purdy
Props Buyer: Stella McIntyre

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Team: Nichol Hoye, Mairead Curtin
Production Assistant: Christine Moses
Technical Manager: Jeff Jeffry
Stage Manager: Kerry Waddell
Production Accountant: Joanna Birkinshaw

STUNTS
Stunt Co-Ordinator: Gareth Milne
Stunts: Colin Skeating

CASTING
Casting: Jane Davis

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Hatty Hayridge [Holly]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
John Docherty [The Inquisitor]
Jake Abraham [2nd Lister]
James Cormick [Thomas Allman]

The crew of the Red Dwarf meet the Inquistor, a deranged, time traveling simulant who survives until the end of time itself and decides that there is no God - the only purpose for existence is to simply live a worthwhile life. Driven mad by his loneliness, it sets out to judge every soul that ever existed and destroy all those who fail to meet its criteria for being worthy. When it runs across the Dwarfers, it has a field day, confronting each crewmember in turn and deciding that only Lister and Kryten are to face the chop - Cat and Rimmer are, by their own feeble standards, doing well for themselves while Lister and Kryten could have done so much more with their lives. With Lister and Rimmer now deleted from the timeline and replaced by alternatives that never had the chance of life, they have to race against time to destroy the Inquisitor before they are eradicated from reality for good.

A huge improvement over the disappointing Holoship, this is a fun romp with plenty of great gags and a cleverly constructed plot. Neat plot twists keep the viewer guessing and a handful of continuity references [Lister talks about having taught Kryten to lie, there are references to Silicon Heaven and so on] would keep the fanboys quiet for a moment or two.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1992
February
27: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

BOOKS

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

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers; robots; time travel