Red Dwarf: The Last Day [1989]

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 19 December 1989
Running Time: 25 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC / Paul Jackson Productions
Executive Producer: Paul Jackson
Producer: Ed Bye, Rob Grant, Doug Naylor
Assistant Producer: Gilly Archer
Production Manager: Mike Agnew
Unit Manager: Janet Smith

SCRIPT
Script: Rob Grant, Doug Naylor

DIRECTION
Director: Ed Bye

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Director: John Pomphrey
Camera Supervisor: Dave Fox

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Vision Mixer: Sonia Lovett
Videotape Editor: Ed Wooden

MUSIC
Music: Howard Goodall

SOUND
Sound Supervisor: Tony Worthington

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Designer: Bethan Jones
Costume Designer: Howard Burden

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Designer: Peter Wragg

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Mel Bibby
Prop Buyer: Stella McIntyre
Graphic Designer: Mark Allen

MISCELLANEOUS
Producer's Assistant: Christina Hamilton
Technical Co-Ordinator: Tony Smith
Assistant Floor Manager: Dona DiStefano

CAST
Craig Charles [Dave Lister]
Chris Barrie [Arnold Rimmer]
Danny John Jules [Cat]
Robert Llewellyn [Kryten]
Hatty Hayridge [Holly]
Julie Higginson [girl android]
Gordon Kennedy [Hudzen]

Kryten's service contract has expired and he has just 24 hours to shut himself down before his replacement, Hudzen, catches up with them to take his place. The crew try to make his last day a particularly memorable one and do so well that Kryten decides he wants to live. No problem - all they have to do is persuade the deranged Hudzen [who's gone mad after tracking the Red Dwarf alone through space for millions of years] that he's not wanted. Which may be easier said than done.

A curiously muted ending to the best season of Red Dwarf so far. The fact that it was a last minute replacement for an abandoned episode [Dad] may explain why it doesn't seem quite so well developed as other episode this season. Not unwatchable by any means, but a disappointment by comparison to the episodes that preceded them.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: PG

1989
December
19: UK - television broadcast [on BBC2]

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

BOOKS

Red Dwarf Programme Guide [3rd edition] pp.99-102
review, synopsis

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

spaceships; cryogenics; cats; holograms; computers; photographs; adolf hitler; rock bands; time travel; alternative histories